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.
Ray
Tremendous performance this month. And to think you did it without ATR Extra!
In all seriousness keep up the good work and let me know if I can be of any help to the "Daq's" number one trader.
Russ
Posted by: Russ Wiseman | 04/01/2007 at 07:54 AM
Hi Ray,
Just wanted to say 'Well Done' for a great month - awesome effort!
All the best,
Mark
Posted by: Mark | 04/01/2007 at 08:24 AM
Hi Russ
It was well before Cheltenham when you promised to update Ray on your two meetings with ATR and what they had to say about Extra.
Maybe you would care to comment on ATr Extra which concerns us more than your new naff tipster in the desert.
Ray well done on a great month anyway.
Bri
Posted by: Bri | 04/01/2007 at 09:59 AM
Hi Russ,
Thanks for your comments.
I need to get sorted out with faster pictures as I am losing out to others that do have the faster pictures at the moment. I have spoken to TurfTV this week and they will not offer 'at home traders' their new service which starts this month. I think it is very short sighted of them, they probably think there are not many of us traders about. We all have the equipment to receive these pictures as you only need a sky set up.
Any update on the ATRxtra situation would be very welcome.
Ray
Posted by: Ray | 04/01/2007 at 11:02 AM
Good stuff Ray. Cracking result for the month. Always nice to see a fellow blogger doing well! Hope you continue the good run into April.
Posted by: Betfair Trader | 04/01/2007 at 11:12 AM
Mark & Bri,
Thanks also for your comments.
Ray
Posted by: Ray | 04/01/2007 at 11:17 AM
Hi Betfair Trader,
Thanks very much. I see you have had one of your best ever months as well. Lets hope we can both keep this going.
Ray
Posted by: Ray | 04/01/2007 at 11:21 AM
Russ
Why don't you come clean and tell us what ATR said to you about delayed transmissions?
I take it that you are OK with your members backing horses after they have fallen or been pulled up?
If you want to be better than bf you have to behave better and that starts with communication and openess.
Ray thanks for keeping this issue highlighted all the best for today, (but do you ever have a day off?)
Bri
Posted by: Bri | 04/01/2007 at 02:18 PM
Incredible month! Keep up the good work. Perhaps you should post some tutorials one day!
http://www.bettingeye.co.uk
Posted by: Jim | 04/01/2007 at 08:10 PM
Hi Jim,
Thanks. My blog is one long tutorial. Good Luck with your trades.
Ray
Posted by: Ray | 04/01/2007 at 08:57 PM
Hi Ray just started reading your blog well done and keep up the good work!!!, one word of warning to all about this Russ fella from Betdaq his blog is well in with the horsegraphs site hence the powered from punters tv, also do you really think he would post on peoples blogs if they were losing alot of money? a few things dont add up with the blog, also this amount matched on betdaqs racing markets should really show the true amount matched like on BF, sorry for the rant Ray but hopefully people can see through this PR man!
Dave
Posted by: Dave | 04/02/2007 at 02:02 AM