Well it has been a reasonable, if some what slow, day on the horse trading but spoilt by trading on football once again. I only traded on 7 races but they were all profitable. My first trade was in the 13:30 at Southwell where I laid Miss Holly for £100 @ 2.00 just coming into the final furlong when trying to get on terms with the leaders but looking unlikely to get to the front. So I had made a £100 profit in the race.
Next I had 3 small, profitable races before trading in the 16:10 at Taunton. I started with a back of Stan for £17 @ 3.80 before laying off @ 2.70 and later on the run in I backed the eventual winner, Malaga Boy for £500 @ 1.03 to give me a profit of £15.
I only traded on 2 more races and both of these ended in small profits. So I had finished my race trading day with a profit of £123.
I thought I would dip my toe in the water with my football trading tonight with the West Ham v Liverpool match. Looking at the stats on my favoured site SoccerStats.com it looked like being an under 2.5 goal match. I started with a back of the unders for £318 @ 2.00 just before the start. I then traded out of this position with trades @ 1.90 down to 1.55 at which point I had no liability and a profit on the unders of £75. I decided to wait for half time before greening up my position. Just at half time I took another position by backing the unders for £200 @ 1.28 and had intended laying off during the interval, however I could not get matched so I left my lays up into the second half. With 10 seconds on the clock a goal had been scored and I was kicking myself for not greening up my position and taking a profit of £60 what ever the result.
After the goal was scored I backed the unders for a further £126 @ 1.67, and again soon after the second goal was scored, so now I was sitting on a £326 liability. If I had been in a confident mood with my football trading I would have backed the unders again for £2-300 at the prevailing odds of around 3.50 and I would have traded out of this match easily, however as you all know I am not confident and therefore decided to sit on the liability and start to trade out at around evens to get out with a small loss or even break-even. I started laying @ 2.10 and 1.90 before the third goal came and finished off my trade with a loss of £300.
I then backed the under 3.5 goals for £300 @ 1.72 to limit my losses. I was more than a little worried about this added liability in particular with the way the game had changed since half time and finally chickened out and laid back my under 3.5 goal position @ 1.37. This left me with a profit of £106 on this trade and an overall loss on the match of £193. I therefore finished the day with a loss of £70.
If you have not already had a look at the Ready For Free Traffic site that I mentioned a few days ago please take a look. It is having some brilliant results throughout the world with many people reporting greatly increased traffic flows, and the site itself has been listed by Alexa as in the top 1% of all visited sites in the world.
What sort of results are you getting from the viral site Ray ? How many hits ? It's difficult for me to keep track of your site meter to tell.
Matt
http://www.Punt.com
Posted by: Account Deleted | 01/31/2007 at 09:26 AM
Hi Matt,
I have had several people sign up already but it is early days and this type of thing probably takes a month or so before the really big numbers start to come through. I will let you know how it is going in a few weeks. The beauty of the product is that it is very simple to set up and is totally free. Good Luck.
Ray
Posted by: Ray | 01/31/2007 at 10:16 AM
Going to be interesting to see. Isn't this the sort of thing that's frowned upon by the search engines though? Gonna do some research.
Matt
Posted by: Account Deleted | 01/31/2007 at 11:43 AM
Hi Matt,
I did look into just that and google have no problem. You can also stop the programe whenever you want.
Ray
Posted by: Ray | 01/31/2007 at 12:14 PM