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Good days, bad days and risk management

Good days, bad days and risk management

I have good and bad trades, good and bad days but generally I don’t have bad weeks and, in fact, as time progresses my chance of a loss decreases. Why, because of the way I manage risk.

Approach to risk

The way I approach risk is pretty much the same on a trade by trade basis or on a day by day basis. One major advantage you have in sports markets, is the large number of events taking place, so …

27/09/2013 | By | Reply More
How to buy success

How to buy success

As the new season is upon us all football fans up and down the country will no doubt have fresh hopes about what the season will bring. Transfers will have been done and hopes raised. But what is it that makes a team successful? What is the most defining characteristic?

The defining characteristic

As is well known, a lot of club revenue gets spent on wages to attract top players. This is in the hope that buying talent buys performances. …

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Has Athletics shown up football?

Has Athletics shown up football?

I’m still buzzing from all the Olympics action we have been privileged to see recently.

People stretching every sinew of their body for that elusive and hard fought honour, an Olympic medal. A chance to say there were the best in the world. Great honour in representing their country, whether they win or now. Years of training, pushing themselves to the limit of their bodies and stretching what is humanly possible.

Contrast that with the current state of professional football.…

15/08/2012 | By More
Free money

Free money

Bets are being taken on the end of the world on the 29th October. You can get 1/100 on the world not ending.

If the world does end then, of course, you will not be around to have to pay out the liability. Click here to see the latest odds: –

https://www.victorchandler.com/vcbet/en- … 1200/22889

In fact, this is a neat way of generating low cost cash flow. Offering very short odds at some point in the future and you get …

11/06/2011 | By More
Arsenal the business

Arsenal the business

If you look at the top of the premiership there is a lot of ‘buying points’ going on. Chelsea and Man City have spent a fortune buying up talent to keep hold of a top four place. Man Utd have also spent a lot, but not as prolifically as the former teams. One likely reason for this is that Man Utd are run as a business, albeit a heavily indebted one. So they can’t afford to run the business in …

11/12/2010 | By More
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