Boxing day markets
So we are at Christmas and everything, apart from your wallet probably, took a break. Now it’s back with a bang on Boxing day.
Putting aside the cricket and the packed football fixture list, there are eleven race meetings today with 769 runners.
The problem you have on days like this is that the races fall all over each other and before one has finished another has already started. They are also generally lower quality and less interesting as betting markets, so overall the markets can be very weak. The races are longer today as they are over jumps, this increases the likelihood of a clash. These two factors can combine to make for very difficult trading markets.
But there is hope, of course. We have some bigger meetings around, none more so than Kempton. So on a day like, if you choose to trade, you should sift through the card to pick off key targets. An easy way to do this is to use Bet Angel’s Guardian tool. I tend to populate all the markets into Guardian and then sort by volume. This gives me a very quick over view of where the money is and which markets to target.
More money is traded on early markets, so you need to take that into account but I do this each day to quickly see where my focus should be and boxing is a critical day to do this. Of course you can do this on any sports, so on a busy day like today you can do this on football as well.
If you are trading then take solace from the fact that previous years was too bad, boxing day hasn’t produced some bad results: –
https://www.betangel.com/blog_wp/2013/12/27/mission-not-impossible/
But, of course, don’t sacrifice the comfort of a day with the family if you are in any doubt about what to do. But if you are trading good luck!
Category: Trading strategies
