sorry about the lack of posts i have been away on a nice sunny holiday to Cornwall... tell a lie it was a rotten holiday it rained almost nonstop and i had to stay in a bloody caravan instead of a nice warm comfy hotel , by the end of the holiday the family did admit we ought to have stayed in a hotel like i wanted too .......

anyway....... back to what this blog is about , got into the swing of things today with a nice little tennis trade as you see above also been taking advantage of the will hill free spin offers and made a tidy sum !.

in the dull period we had of the internationals before i went away on my hols i decided to try and expand my knowledge of trading and so spent many hours scouring the nooks and crannies of the web looking for anything and everything on betfair trading , so after sweeping away the dross ( which there was a huge amount ) i turned up a number of different trading systems/techniques many of which i have never heard of before or even knew existed.

on the football front i have found a ltd trade with a twist in it which i had never thought of before and some over/under trades that look rather promising and some very interesting techniques that you can use when a goal has been scored , i have to admit i have never seen any of these before ....oh and i have come across a very different way of trading the cs market which has its own built in safety net which does give you an edge, i admit i have already tried this and blow me down it does work !, i have also came across a number of tennis trading techniques which again i have not seen before and one which really does give you a very nice edge in the market .

so.... i have now got my work cut out trying all the above out.

on the horse racing front i was hoping to be going into live trading this week but just before my holiday i had two losing trades in two days, now a losing trade now and again is only natural but two like that was a bit disconcerting and so i have been doing some tweaks and today had a 100% success rate of 8 winning trades.... now that's how it should be for in running !.

i will be also getting stuck into my 2-2 trading h/t scores again , looking back on my trades i am very much into profit with this and i will see if i can find a way to improve my strike rate.

right now its decision time do i trade a couple of south American games tonight which gun in the tradingfootball room is gonna trade in about an hours time ......or do i go to bed, hmmmmm

a dull period

since my last post its been a pretty dull time with the football , the pmt trades have been almost zero and my budding 2-2 second half trades has almost come to a stop with the internationals which i don`t fancy trying it with, and the second - rate games we have been having in which anything can happen and the poor liquidity ..... its just been an awful few days.

i have tried the late night south American games though but been frustrated by a few last minute first half goals which has put paid to the prospective trade.

tonight i tried to make a few pounds on the Spain/Scotland game by backing a very high under 2.5 goals with the aim of coming out in ten minutes with a couple of pounds or so profit, but a 6th minute goal by Spain put paid to that and fearing a goal avalanche i redded up ...with hindsight i ought to have stayed in and would have got out for a scratch trade before the second goal came.

after this i just lost interest for the rest of the night.

still its given me a chance to crack on with my in running on the horses testing, now i know what i am doing will work but have not done it for some months and just want to make sure everything is fine before using real money.

so....roll on the end of the week and the weekend when the real football returns and things can get back to normal !!.

in running on the horses almost here again

i have to apologise for the presentation of my last post all white bits and looking horrible i don`t know how it came about but i cannot change it and don`t fancy writing the post again so there it stays !

in any case at the moment no one is reading this blog so it don`t really matter ..haha.

today was the first time i had a pre in-running warm up on the gee gees for some months because i only like to do it on the jumps as its much easier and though its not my normal in running techniques i use which are very safe i did use some of the skills i have picked up over the years and though there is some risk involved i was pleased with the outcome as can be seen on the screenshot.

i will be doing a much more involved write-up about in-running trading on the horses which i think is one of the easier ways to trade on betfair ...providing you do it the right way and with the right tools...but more on that for later.

today's footie card was very,very bad which is the reason i had a go on the horses cos i did want the day to go to waste.

anyway tomorrow is much better and i am looking forward to the weekend and will see if i can have some success with the pmt tool .

bye

second half football trading

one of the things i like with trading on betfair is that you are always looking for new ways to trade that may give you the little edge that you need , one way that i hit upon is to start my trading in the second half of a football match, now this is nothing new as lots of people do it but for me its new.

what i have been doing is waiting for a game to be 0-0 at half time look at the form stats and if both side are scoring plenty of goals then have a small £2 back bet on the 2-2 score.

i have found that by half time you can get some pretty big odds for the 2-2 and i have been having them in a range of between 60-95 though just last night i waited until the 50th minute of an Italian game and got odds of 110 on the 2-2 , why people are happy to accept my back bet at these odds is beyond me ? but i am not complaining !.

now the tactic is just to sit back and wait for the goals to go in , the earlier in the second half the better as odds plummet that much further rather than late on in the game.

an ideal score is the 2-1 or 1-2 if the underdog scores first that also brings the 2-2 odds in nicely, though a 1-1 score does also give me a profit with anything from £4-10 leaving a nice lump on the 2-2 still.

of course 0-0 and the favorite scoring 1,2 or More goals without reply is a lost trade, but when the trade goes Right like at the weekend its party time !.

as you can see in the screenshots above i

made my £2 bet at half time and managed to get back odds of 90 and then after 1st goal i eliminated my red leaving a big green on the 2-2 , it then was soon 1-1 until the underdog scores to make it 1-2 at which point i greened up for a £44 profit which is not bad at all from a small £2 bet.

just my luck a few minutes later the score was 2-2 and could gave greened up for a bigger profit but i also could have lost out if the score went to 1-3 ..... always green up if you have the chance, i have learnt that the hard way over the years !!.

so...is this an easy way of making money on betfair....well no its not the two trades i have had since the weekend both lost and £4 went to money heaven i have had 3 of the above trades so far since i have been doing this and a larger number of smaller wins of anything from £4-10, i can have runs of 2-5 losing bets at a time but i soon make it back with a win.

clearly this type of trading is more of the medium to long term variety...but hey its something differant for me and i am sure there are ways to improve it which i will look into.

right enough of my waffle....

bye

a new start

OK..... after a break of some months i will be restarting this blog, in the past i had done the blog daily but i am changing my sports trading and have no need to post daily and so will post when i feel like it but will most likely be several times a week.

i am having a break from the greyhounds and have left Chris William's tipping service .... nothing is wrong with it i was still making money but i just felt a bit stale doing the dogs and needed a change.

i will be returning to the greyhounds later.

now its the turn of the football markets for me and i will dive into them as often as i can !, i have rejoined the trading football service and as one of their very first members it did feel a bit like coming home after a years break due to my family problems and though a bit rusty i am getting back into the swing of things.

i have also joined their pmt service ( pre match trading ) i have found it hard to get started with it but now seemed to have clicked because in the last few days have already made this months subs back so i will be giving this another month to see how it goes.

apart from the football there will be some tennis and towards the end of this month i will be going back to in-running trading on the horses which is really easy money.

i have also joined a little horse tipping service which seems to be very good and i will be reporting on this as well.

i will be putting my first post up tomorrow and talking about a new strategy i have started in the last few weeks which is giving me some amazing results and a 2000% return from a football match just tonight alone !! .

not many racing selections today and what there was were pretty second rate and so i picked one from a poor bunch, the dogs came up trumps again and so a very quite day.

profit £5.00.

bank £ 292.57.

this morning i felt like doing some tennis trading and making sure my potential loss was never more than £20. at any one time i soon had built up a nice little profit.

a greyhound trade came next and once i had my first trade on the horse races i was in a healthy profit for the day which i did not want to lose and so i stopped for the day.

profit £21.25.

bank £287.36.

today i got my head back in order ( after yesterday ! ) and had a 100% winning run on the horses and greyhounds, unlike yesterday, today i had too many selections to choose from and i just cherry picked the best of them and made a nice decent profit for the day.

long may it continue.

profit £19.61.

bank £ 266.04.

not a very good day for me today in respect that my discipline went to pot, it all came about because there really was no horse racing selections worth doing and instead of going into the garden and doing some jobs for the rest of the day i thought i would build my bank up by some scalping and it soon led to me doing some in-play trading which made me a nice profit as you can see above.... but that's beside the point i am disappointed in myself for not having more self control and i really must work on it to stop doing this sort of thing again !.

one good thing has come out of today though its enabled me to advance my plan to extend my bank liability a couple of weeks early because before today i was laying to a liability of ten times my betting bank which is a bit risky but to build my bank up i had to do it this way.

now though i can afford to bet to twenty times liability of my bank so by scaling it up or down with a win/loss i am always twenty bets away from losing my bank.

i do feel much better now i have achieved this level and i may extend it to 25 times later on.

i did have one successful greyhound bet also.

hope i can have more control over myself from now on !.

i have put a couple of screen captures up but i did not take any more cos i was scalping too many races to bother with em.

profit £73.14.

bank £246.43.

not much to say today except after three winning trades i packed it in early as i had to go out, but still happy with my profit for the day.

never got around to the greyhounds but will try and have a go tomorrow.

profit £ 11.81.

bank £ 173.49.

today i done some pre-match trading on a football game and made £300. on the 0-0 scoreline though i did not think for one minute this game would end at 0-0 and so with this "free bet" i let it run in-play and waited until about 15 minutes had been played then i greened up for a nice little profit.

really easy risk free money !.

on the horses i had a losing bet at the very start, it was a bit freakish i was watching the race on betfair video and this horse came from the very last and moved up through the field like a rocket and went onto win even the commentators were surprised as this was a big outsider.

anyway i then went on and had a nice little run of winning bets that saw me back into profit at which time i called it a day.

profit £20.00.

bank £161.68.

hooray for the football ! today my football trade saved me from a bigger loss than i would have had.

i had three winning/placed horse`s today and a larger number of winning bets, but i still would have been substantially down on the day but for my football trade.

so today ended with a small loss, hopefully i will back into profit tomorrow.

loss £ -2.27.

bank £141.62.

a great day again and more profit added to the pot !

profit £14.43.

bank £143.89.

another 100% successful strike rate on both the horses and the dogs today and i continue to build my bank up slowly but surely.

profit £15.99.

bank £129.46.

since my last post i have made some changes in the way forward for me , i never got around to posting yesterdays results and this morning while looking at things i started to question why i had so much money in my bank when all i was betting to was £20-30 in liabilities and so i withdrew my original bank and kept my profits and now i am using them to fund my bank.

tomorrow i will begin again with daily totals and bank size.

today though was a nice day of profits on the horse racing, i never got around to the dogs.

a great first day of betting, i had a 100% successful strike rate on both the greyhounds and the horse racing i even done a double lay bet on one horse race as i was so confident both would lose .

one draw back was that because there was so many races today i could not use betbotpro on all of them and had to wait until the conditions were right on the betfair markets to bet and so that meant waiting until the last minute before a race to decide whether to bet or not... a bit of a pain but at least it made me money !.

profit £51.79.

bank £406.86.

cumulative total £51.79.

i was going to start this blog again a few days back but become very busy and with the kids off school and Easter hols i just never got around to it.

so..... tomorrow i will start this blog again .

i did have a couple of goes trading the in-running markets and on one i had my best ever trade in the fives years of being on betfair and i am quite proud of what i done.

but that's the last of my in-running and i want to trade at a more sedate pace, with the greyhounds and horse laying starting with a small bank and slowly building up over time.

start bank £355.07.