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Chapter 3 · Trading · Lesson 8 · 3 min

Combo Builder

Build a combo from sports markets, price it live, place it, and manage the combos you hold.

Combo Builder puts several picks into one bet: a combo pays only if every leg wins. Pick legs from a sports scanner, see a live price for the whole thing, and place it. The same widget holds your open combos, ready-made combos and the day's biggest winners. It covers your whole account, so it needs no colour group.

What you see

Combo Builder: the scanner on the left and a three-leg combo slip on the right
  1. 1
    Picked price
  2. 2
    Same game group
  3. 3
    Leg number and side buttons
  4. 4
    Odds, Payout, Indicative, Markup
  5. 5
    Quote timer and button

On a wide widget, the scanner sits on the left and the combo slip on the right. On a narrow one they become two tabs, Markets and Slip. The scanner is the Sports Scanner, limited to markets you can combine.

Legs from one game are grouped and tagged Same game, since their outcomes depend on each other. Under the legs, Odds and Payout come from the live quote, and Indicative is just the leg prices multiplied together. Markup is the gap between the two; it turns red when the quote is more than 10% worse.

Using it

Build and place a combo

Click prices in the scanner: each click adds a leg. Picks that contradict a leg you already hold are dimmed. From two legs on, the widget asks market makers for a live price, an RFQ, while you're logged in. A quote lasts a few seconds and refreshes on its own; a bar shows how long it has left. Enter a stake to see your payout.

Place combo buys at the quote on screen. It asks you to confirm first, with the stake and payout, unless you turn that off in settings.

You get the live quote, not the Indicative odds or the odds on the Popular tab. Check Odds and Payout right before you place.

Tune the slip

Each leg's side buttons flip it (Yes/No, Over/Under or the other team), and spreads and totals get a line menu. Click a leg's number to leave it out of the quote without removing it. Click its title to find its game in the scanner.

Open combos

Open combos lists what you hold, with stake, max payout and what it's worth now. Cash out sells a combo back at a fresh quote. Buy more loads its legs into the builder while none has resolved, and Claim collects a win.

The Open combos tab with three combos and their actions
Buttons follow the state: Claim on a won combo, Cash out and Buy more on a live one with every leg open, none while it is Closing.
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    Totals: In, To win, Claimable
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    Value now and P&L
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    Cash out at a fresh quote
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    Buy more: legs back to the builder
  5. 5
    Claim the win

Tips

  • Keep up to five slips as tabs above the legs, one per idea. Switching tabs keeps every slip's legs and stake.
  • Not sure a leg is worth it? Click its number to switch it off and watch Odds change, then switch it back.

Finish reading to complete this lesson

Extras

Popular lists ready-made combos with their indicative odds; To slip loads one into a new slip, and + adds its legs to the current one. Leaders ranks winning combos by day or all time; open a trader to see their open combos and load one.

The Popular tab grouped by sport, with one combo expanded
+ adds a combo's legs to your current slip, and To slip loads it into a new one. The in slip tag counts the legs already in your active slip.
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    League sections
  2. 2
    Legs / Odds / Games filters
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    + and To slip
  4. 4
    In slip tag

Slips

Add a slip with + next to the tabs. Double-click a tab to rename it; its menu duplicates or deletes it. Loading a combo from Popular, Leaders or Open combos opens it in a new slip when the current one has legs. With five slips already, it replaces the current one, and you can undo that. Clearing a slip can be undone.

Open combos statuses

StatusWhat it means
LiveStill in play. Cash out or, if no leg has resolved, buy more.
ClosingBeing closed; nothing to do until it settles.
ClaimWon and ready to collect. Claim all collects every win at once.
Won, LostSettled.

Value is an estimate from the legs' current prices; the cash-out quote is what you actually get.

Settings

Combo settings: the Trading group and the Scanner row under Markets
SettingWhat it does
Confirm before placingAsks once more with the stake and payout.
Default stakePrefilled in a fresh slip.
Stake presetsUp to four quick amounts under the stake field. The default is $5, $25 and $100.
Show markupThe Markup line in the slip.
ScannerOpens the scanner's own settings: columns, logos, rows and grouping.

The ¢ / Odds switch in the slip header shows leg prices in cents or decimal odds.