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Is trading football the new racing?

Is trading football the new racing?

Horse racing markets are popular with traders because of the large amounts of volatility, but trading football on betting exchanges hasn’t traditionally been seen as a place to get large risk free swings in odds. Things appear to be changing however.

I have recently been conducting some re-reseach on pre-off movements on football. I do this sort of thing on all sports, revisiting previous research. But on conducting the research this time around I noticed a change. The football pre-off …

03/03/2012 | By | Reply More
Trading the drifting Denman

Trading the drifting Denman

With a tough week already, it looked like Saturday was going to be a white out as well. Fortunately Newbury survived with a quality card and that gave me a reason to sit behind my desk. I’ve typically done OK at the Hennessy gold cup, so wanted a fair crack at it. When you have been going for a few years you can’t but resist looking at previous years and having that as an unofficial target. Tough when the most …

28/11/2010 | By More
Worst trade ever?

Worst trade ever?

I wonder if this was the worst trade ever, or maybe just a blinding cock up of some sort by somebody?

Anybody trading this market couldn’t have failed to notice the sudden appearance of a £100k order in the book. This person was desperate to get filled on the back side and the order persisted for ages. I can only speculate what happened here,  as when I looked at the data I couldn’t clearly see any particular strategy behind it. …

13/07/2009 | By More
Being contrary

Being contrary

Have a look at the following chart from the 14:15 at Lingfield on Saturday. This is a very big steamer. Of course in hindsight you would say, ‘If I backed it at X and laid it at Y I would have made £Z’. Most people would look at this chart and back it high and lay it low. After all backing at 3 and laying at 2 would net you a 100% profit on your stake and fully greened up
03/02/2009 | By More
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