Friday 2nd February 2007

It's been a good day for the Sports Trader. I traded on 14 horse races, 1 football match and 1 snooker match. I did lose on 3 races but won on everything else.

My first trade was in the 13:20 at Catterick where I got myself off to a bad start by backing Sea Cove for £30 @ 2.02 on the run in and thought that I had won, only to see Southern Bazaar get up on the line and cost me £30.

My next race was the 13:30 at Chepstow where I started with a back on Classic Fiddle for £250 @ 1.50 before laying all off @ 1.41. I then backed the eventual winner, Gaspara, for £5 @ 3.00 and a further £100 @ 2.01 before laying off £50 @ 1.50 to net me a profit of £86. Next I had two small trades one profitable and one a loser.

In the 14:25 at Catterick I backed Milan Deux Mille for £75 @ 1.25 before laying off £31 @ 1.10 and also laid Spike Jones for £4 @ 10.00 to give me a profit of £16. This was followed by 2 small, profitable trades.

My next race was the 15:00 at Catterick and here I backed Sir Boreas Hawk for £100 @ 1.50 before laying it all off @ 1.25 to net me a £25 profit. I then had another 2 small, profitable trades.

In the 15:40 at Chepstow I started with a lay on Marodima for £100 @ 3.60 before backing back for £80 @ 3.90 and a further £10 @ 4.20. I also had a small lay on Laustra to give me a profit of £11 on the race.

My worst result was in the 16:05 at Catterick where I started with a lay on Aviation for £200 @ 2.00 before backing back £135 @ 1.72 to cover some of my liability and leave me nursing a loss of £103.

In my next race, the 16:15 at Chepstow I made amends by backing Gunship for £67 @ 2.75 before laying back £68 @ 1.10 to give me a profit of £111. My last race was a small, profitable one and this resulted in a days race trading profit of £131.

Again I decided to have a few trades on the football tonight in the game between Cardiff and Barnsley. I started after kick off with a back of the under 2.5 goals for £10 @ 2.00. Minutes later a goal was scored and I started to back the unders again for £40 @ 3.10. I then started to lay off for £15 @ 2.95 and £15 @ 2.70. Next a big lay was put up at wrong odds of 3.65 so I took all £139 of it, before very quickly laying off £100 @ 2.45 and then further small lays. After the second goal was scored I did not back again as I was in a position of no liability and a good profit on the unders, so I just waited for the odds to drop to 2.60 before gradually greening up my position. I did also back a few more times when the odds where too high. I eventually got myself into a position of £88 profit whatever the result and left it at that. So I ended my football trading in positive territory with a profit of £88.

You have probably all read this by now but the FIGC (Italy's football federation) has suspended all football indefinitely after a police office was killed during trouble at the Sicilian derby match between Catania and Palermo. Link to Original Story.

As soon as the football had finished I turned the tv on to tonight's snooker match between Ken Doherty and Peter Ebdon. The score was 3 -3 and Peter was just in the lead in the 7th frame. I started by backing Ken Doherty for £100 @ 1.62 before quickly having to get out of that position and starting to back Peter. In all I had 38 trades on the remainder of the match. There is far too much trading to bore you with but the end result was a profit of £518 on the match. My result for the day came in at a profit of £737.

It's good to see that Betdaq have signed up Alan McInally as their resident football pundit to contribute to the excellent Daily Betdaq Exchange Views newsletter.  Alan is well known for his successful footballing career and now as a Sky Sports pundit. He is also very keen on Sports betting in general, with many contacts, and will give an insight into many sporting events over the coming weeks.

Comments

[Mick]

Well done Ray,

I have found Snooker and dart profitable in the past because of the constant swings in the markets.

Good day

[Ray]

Hi Mick,
Yes I have always traded on the Premier League darts and find it very good to trade on. The snooker is usually too slow for me but if I can find a game that is quite evenly matched and close to finishing I like to trade them. Good Luck today.
Ray