The Sports Trader

Friday 6th April 2007

The Sports Trader's day off ended with trades in 2 football matches.

I had a brilliant day out with my 3 youngest children and my Sister-in-law, Angela. We went to The Blair Drummond Safari Park and it was great to see the children have so much fun. We are already planning to go back again as we didn't get to see everything there today.

Whilst making our evening meal I decided to watch the end of the Man City v Charlton match. I backed the draw for £55 @ 1.33 before laying off @ 1.21 and in injury time I backed the draw for £53 @ 1.12, £31 @ 1.08 and £102 @ 1.05 to result in a profit of £21.

Later with the kids in bed I watched the end of the Everton v Fulham match where I only traded in injury time. I backed the No 6th goal market for £81 @ 1.17, £33 @ 1.15, £180 @ 1.06 and £122 @ 1.04 to result in a profit of £34.

So my very short trading day had finished with a profit of £55.

Thursday 5th April 2007

The Sports Trader has had a reasonable day with 9 horse races and 2 darts matches traded and no losing trades.

I began with 4 small winning trades. My first trade of any note was in the 16:50 at Wincanton where I laid Spinning Coin for £24 @ 6.40 before backing back £8 @ 18.00 to leave me with a profit of £16.

In the 17:05 at Clonmel I backed Councillor Jack for £145 @ 4.50 before laying off ££146 @ 3.80 and £10 @ 3.20 to leave me with a profit of £10. I followed this up with a small winning trade.

The best trade of my day was next in the 17:35 at Clonmel where I laid Lord Alfred for £110 @ 4.00 before backing back £10 @ 6.00 to result in a profit of £100. I followed up with my last trade which resulted in a small profit.

My race trading had finished with a profit of £157.

I had quite a few things to do with the children in the early evening so I missed quite a lot of the darts, but I did trade in the Manley v Van Barneveld match which resulted in a very small profit.

My last trade of the day was in the Lloyd v Lewis match where I started with a back of Lloyd for £144 @ 2.95 before laying off @ 2.79. Later I backed him again for £138 @ 1.96 and laid this off @ 1.83. Then just as Lewis was throwing to win his 7th leg I laid Lloyd for £24 @ 35.00 to result in a profit of £25.

My day had finished with a profit of £183.

With no racing tomorrow I think I will take my three youngest children to the Blair Drummond Safari Park. I will probably make a day of it but will be back sometime after 6:30 so if there is anything worth trading I may have a little dabble otherwise I see it being a blank day trading wise.

I hope you all enjoy a day off, I am already looking forward to the weekend trading.

Wednesday 4th April 2007

Few trades but a good result seems to be the way at the moment for the Sports Trader. I traded in 8 horse races, 1 football match and 1 cricket match.

My day started with the 14:20 at Catterick where I had a small winning trade on Sawwaah. In the 14:40 at Nottingham I laid Ten Down for £31 @ 3.56 to result in a profit of £31.

In the 15:10 also at Nottingham I made my first of two losing trades on the day as I backed Patavellian for £10 @ 3.45 and could not get it laid off to cost me £10. My next trade was a small winning one.

My second loss of the day came in the 16:35 at Gowran Park. I had backed Dancing Hero for £40 @ 3.60 when tracking the leaders at about 4 furlongs from the finish and again had intended to lay off for a profit but the price soon moved against me and I suffered a loss of £40.

My best result came in the 16:40 at Nottingham where I had laid Spring Goddess for £304 @ 3.50. I backed back £8 @ 3.80 and then as Jamie Spencer got to work on her to challenge for the lead I started backing  at lower figures to reduce my liability with backs of £113 @ 3.25 and £40 @ 2.05. In the end she could only manage second by a head, to result in a profit of £143.

Next was another small winning trade. My last horse racing trade of the day was in the 17:10 at Nottingham where I laid Dumas for £49 @ 8.80 to result in a profit of £49.

My race trading had finished with a profit of £186.

We were all spoilt for choice in the evening with two great football matches and a thrilling World Cup cricket match. If only the finishes could have been spread out a little more it would have been easier to trade them.

I decided to watch the Chelsea v Valencia match. I had not traded until after the first goal had been scored. The prices on the under 2.5 goals were all over the place for a couple of very hectic minutes and I managed to lay the unders for £100 @ 1.60 before backing back £70 @ 1.80, £10 @ 1.86, £90 @ 1.93 and £82 @ 1.95. I finished off with a lay at 1.75 for £182 to leave me with a profit of just over £31 whatever the result.

I then watched the last 8 or 9 overs of the England v Sri Lanka cricket match and what a match it turned out to be. I would think there will be some hefty losses for England backers as Bopara and Nixon put together a decent partnership to almost snatch a victory from almost certain defeat a little earlier. I just managed to trade myself into an all green position of £25 after having 16 trades. England lost on the last ball of the match needing to score 3 runs when Bopara was clean bowled whilst trying to launch a four or six.

My day had finished with a profit of £243.

Tuesday 3rd April 2007

The Sports Trader has had a solid day of trading with no losses in the 6 horse races and 1 football match that I traded.

I started with my best trade of the day in the 14:30 at Wetherby where I laid Hold The Bid for £200 @ 4.00, early on in the race, with the intention of backing back at around 5.00. I did put up some backs but before any were matched the unfortunate horse had fallen. In the final furlong I also backed the eventual winner Arctic Ghost for £250 @ 1.01 to result in a profit of £203.

I followed up with 2 small, but profitable trades.  In the 16:30 at Southwell I laid Spectested for £12 @ 26.00 to give me a profit of £12. Next was another small winning trade.

My final race trade of the day came in the 18:05 at Gowran Park where I laid Just Naturally for £50 @ 10.00 before backing back £15 @ 22.67 to leave me with a profit of £35.

My race trading day had finished with a profit of £263.

I decided to trade the PSV v Liverpool football match in the evening. I had missed the start of the game and just watched until the first goal had been scored, then I backed the under 2.5 goals for £197 @ 1.81. I laid off £152 @ 1.67 and £45 @ 1.70. I had to make a couple of telephone calls so I missed the rest of the first half of the match. When I got back to trading the second goal was scored and I had a small back of the unders for £7 @ 2.95 which I laid off at 2.71. The third goal came and meant that I had neither won or lost on the match.

I then had a look at the under 3.5 goal market and backed the unders for £100 @ 2.20. Soon after I laid back £50 @ 1.98 and £50 @ 1.85. I then backed the unders for £11 @ 1.88 before laying this off @ 1.59. Finally I greened up this position with a lay of £25 @ 1.28. This left me with a profit of £25 on the match.

I finished my trading day with a profit of £288.

Monday 2nd April 2007

The Sports Trader has had a very quite but profitable day. I only managed to trade on 5 horse races and 1 football match but had no losing trades on the day.

My first event to report on was the Shell Houston Open golf tournament that ended late last night but the result had not been finalised until after midnight so the trade comes into today's figures. I only caught the last few holes. I laid Adam Scott when he went into the water with his tee shot on the final hole for £535 @ 1.25. I then backed him back for £67 @ 1.70 and £143 @ 2.02 before trading was suspended due to the loss of pictures from Setanta. When we got the pictures back Scott's price was back down to 1.02 and I backed him for a further £149 @ 1.02 to leave me with a profit of £62.

My first horse race trade was a small profitable one. Next was the 16:10 at Lingfield where I laid Laugh'n Cry for £186 @ 2.30. I then backed back £49 @ 3.38, £40 @ 4.00, £10 @ 4.70 and £7 @ 4.50. In the final furlong I backed King After for £230 @ 1.17 just as he took the lead to result in a profit of £119.

My next trade was in the 16:20 at Kelso and here I backed Lutea for £50 @ 4.30 before laying off @ 3.42 and later I partially greened up with a lay of £10 @ 2.60 to result in a profit of £27.

In the 17:10 at Lingfield I backed Alfresco for £65 @ 1.30 when contesting the lead in the final furlong to leave me with a profit of £19.

My final race trade of the day was in the 17:20 at Kelso where I backed Natiain for £100 @ 2.70 before laying all off @ 2.50 to result in a profit of £20.

My race trading had left me with a profit of £186.

In tonight's live football match I only had one very quick trade as I was busy with other things. I backed the under 2.5 goals market for £200 @ 1.38 and laid off very shortly after @ 1.29 to result in a profit of £18.

My final tally for the day was a profit of £266.

There is a lot of talk at the moment on a new betting system known as The Money Vault which has produced a profit of £26,340 in the last 34 days to £20 bets and which has had only two losing days in that period. I  do not use betting systems but this one sounds as if it is one of the best about, you can see details of the system here.

Sunday 1st April 2007

The Sports Trader has had a hectic day today, mainly due to loads of visitors coming round in the aftermath of Jennifer's birthday party. I've had a really good time seeing all of my children together. I did get some trading done but it has been limited to just 10 horse races and 2 football matches.

My first trade was in the 14:20 at Newton Abbot where I backed Pepporoni Pete for £34 @ 2.45 and laid off at 2.10 for £30 and £4 @ 2.01 to result in a profit of £12.

My next trade was in the 15:10 at Hexham where I laid Open de L'Isle for £40 @ 8.60 before backing back £5 @ 15.00, £9 @ 25.00 and £1 @ 84 to leave me with a profit of £25. I followed this with 5 small, profitable trades.

My only loss on the day came next in the 17:05 at Limerick. I had backed Judge Roy Bean for £50 @ 3.00 and put up a lay at 2.76 but only got matched for £20 to leave me with a loss of £30.

In the 17:10 at Hexham I started with a back of Supreme Builder for £40 @ 1.85 and laid off @ 1.69. I then had further backs for £500 @ 1.05 and £184 @ 1.02 in the final furlong when well in the lead to result in a profit of £35.

My last race trade of the day was in the 17:35 at Limerick and here I laid Dead Sound for £167 @ 4.80 before backing back £100 @ 7.40 to result in a profit of £67.

My race trading had finished with a profit of £115.

As soon as racing had finished I took a look at the final few minutes of the Tottenham v Reading football match. I looked for a decent value trade and decided to lay the draw for £100 @ 33.00 whilst only just over a minute of injury time was left to play. I quickly put up backs to cover my liability and got matched for £20 @ 78.00 and £7 @ 100.00, before cancelling the rest of my lay, to result in a profit of £73.

Later I watched the end of the Celta Vigo v Real Madrid match and again traded in the final seconds of the match. This time I backed Real for £200 @ 1.08 to result in a profit of £16.

I did some trading at the end of the Shell Houston Open Golf Tournament which resulted in a profit but the result didn't get finalised until past 12:00 midnight so that will come in to next weeks trading result.

My trading day had therefore finished with a profit of £204.

After what I have considered to be a particularly difficult and slow week for trading, with many interruptions due to my domestic situation, I have still managed to turn a reasonable result, all be it my lowest profit for 9 weeks, of £1010.

Saturday 31st March 2007

The Sports Trader has had an unusual day for a Saturday. It is normally my busiest day of the week but today was my eldest daughter, Jennifer's,  24th Birthday so I have had a lot of other things to do. On top of that my wife has been having some serious problems that I can't go into on this public blog, needless to say that has also taken up quite a lot of time today. I managed to see all 6 of my children today which is always a real pleasure and I also met with some of Jenny's old school friends, one of them, Stacey, is a regular reader of this blog and has a real passion for horses and horse racing, she was in the pony games team that my other daughter, Josephine, was in when representing Scotland at the Horse of the Year show at Wembley a few years ago. Stacey has turned into a fine young lady and is just about to finish University. One of her ambitions is to go to Ascot on Lady's Day and drink lots of champagne whilst soaking up the atmosphere of such a great occasion. We will have to see if we can make that dream come true for her one day. Anyway, I only traded in 10 horse races today and missed the rest of the sport later on due to the party.

My first trade was a small profitable one. Next was my worst result of the day where, in the 15:05 at Ascot,  I had backed Boychuk for £1500 @ 1.50 before laying off @ 1.42 which would have given me a very nice start to the day had he won. Later in the race I some how managed to back Always Waining for £64 @ 1.16, so I finished what could have been a good race with a loss of £64.

My next race was the 15:40 at Ascot and here I laid Fountain Crumble for £50 @ 2.65 to result in a profit of £50. I followed this up with 4 small but profitable trades. Then came my best result of the day, in the 17:30 at Uttoxeter, where I backed Katess for £224 @ 1.66 when just getting the better of Thebelloftheball, to result in a profit of £148.

My next race was the 17:40 at Nad Al Sheba where I backed Admire Moon for £224 @ 1.10 to give me a profit of £22. My last trade of the day was in the 17:50 at Kempton and resulted in a small loss of £7.

My day had finished with a profit of £169.

This being the last day of the March it is time to report my result for the month which has come in at a profit of £7225. I am well pleased with that result as I have felt that I have struggled over the past couple of weeks to make headway. There are plenty of positives to take from this result as March of 2006 was my only losing month since I turned full time 15 months ago, which indicates that March tends to be a difficult month for me to trade the markets and I have only had two losing days in the whole of the month which demonstrates my consistency over this month. Let's hope I can continue with this type of performance.