Filters & settings
A guide to every filter and setting in the Smart Money tool — liquidity floor, exchange selection, sportsbook scope, stake sizing, sports and markets.
How filters shape the signal
Smart Money surfaces bets where order-book depth across exchanges indicates informed money has moved a line. The filters let you control which signals reach your feed — tightening toward fewer, higher-conviction results or loosening to see everything the market is flagging. See What Smart Money is for how the underlying signal is built.
Liquidity filters
The two liquidity controls work together to define what counts as a meaningful signal.
- Min Liquidity — a dollar threshold applied to the total order-book depth behind each signal. The server applies a default floor of approximately $200, so low-volume noise is already filtered out before your feed loads. Raising this value narrows the feed to bets where a larger amount of capital is committed on the exchange side, which generally means stronger, better-tested signals. Lowering it (or clearing it) lets thinner markets through.
- Liquidity Bookmakers — selects which exchanges and liquidity sources contribute to the depth calculation. The available sources are Sporttrade, NoVig, ProphetX, 4Caster, 4CX, Polymarket, and Kalshi. By default all are included. Restricting to one or two sources lets you focus on the specific exchanges you trust or have access to.
Fewer sources, sharper floor
Raising the liquidity floor and narrowing the liquidity bookmakers at the same time produces the smallest but most concentrated set of signals — useful when you want to act quickly and only on the highest-conviction moves.
Sportsbooks
The Sportsbooks filter controls which retail books appear in results. Smart Money shows the sportsbook line that moved alongside the exchange signal, so restricting to books where you hold accounts means every result is immediately actionable for you. Clearing the filter shows signals across all books in your region.
Sports, leagues, and markets
- Leagues — limits results to specific leagues, grouped by sport. Leave empty to see all ~36 active leagues SmartStake covers.
- Markets — a hierarchical picker that lets you include only the bet types you want, such as moneylines, spreads, totals, or specific player props. Leave it empty to see all market types.
- Odds — a min/max range filter to exclude lines outside the odds window you are comfortable betting. Set only one bound to create a one-sided cap or floor.
- Date Range — restricts results to games starting within a chosen window. The default ("All") includes all upcoming events.
Bankroll and stake sizing
The toolbar above the feed shows a Bankroll field and a Stake % field. Enter your total betting bankroll in dollars and the percentage of it you want to size each Smart Money bet at. When you take a bet, the wager slip pre-fills the stake as bankroll × stake%, so you do not have to do the arithmetic manually each time. These values are saved to your preferences and shared with other tools that use flat-percentage sizing. For Kelly-based sizing used by the Positive EV tool, see Bankroll, Kelly & stake sizing.
Settings panel
The gear icon opens the Settings panel, which controls display and refresh behaviour rather than which signals appear:
- Odds format — American or decimal.
- Hide taken bets — removes bets you have already recorded in the Bet Tracker from the feed.
- Hide correlated bets — removes bets that would correlate with wagers you have already taken in the same game.
- Show hidden bets — reveals bets you have manually hidden.
- Pregame refresh interval — how often the feed re-queries the server. Options are manual, 10s, 30s, and 60s; the feed also has a pause/resume control in the toolbar.
- Market view books and Line history books — configure which books appear in the Market View and Line History overlays when you inspect a signal. These are covered in Reading liquidity depth.
- Odds, prices, expected value, conversion rates, and profit figures shown are estimates based on the last data we retrieved. They can change at any time — confirm the current price at the book before you bet, as odds may move and entry errors can occur.
- Using a “sharp” book as a fair-value reference is a modeling choice, not a statement of accuracy. Review a book’s record yourself and anchor on the books you trust.