Renaissance

02/09/2009 | By More

August turned out to be a great month for me, building on a solid July. It was right up there with some of the best weeks and months I’ve had. The good thing is, I know why.

If you keep good records, you can monitor and improve your performance and that alone is worth its weight in gold. On top of that, if you actively monitor performance and see a decline, you have the means to address that.

Late last year I noticed that my strike rate seemed to be in a slight downtrend. This trend continued so there was obviously something ‘wrong’ with the market or my ability to participate in it. I was still pulling in excellent results but seeing a key metric decline isn’t an ideal scenario for the future!

I looked at the stats and figured out where I was under performing. It seemed a subtle shift in the market was causing problems. I couldn’t see it in my day to day activity, but it was a clear as a bell in the stats. In late June I adapted my trading style. The results were almost instant and my strike rate improved almost instantaneously.

090828 - Strike rate

It was a bit of a trading renaissance and proof that there is still room for improvement, no matter how long you have been in the market.

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I left a good job in the consumer technology industry to go a trade on Betfair for a living way back in June 2000. I've been here ever since pushing very boundaries of what's possible on betting exchanges and loved every minute of it.

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