It was a reasonable day for the Sports Trader even after a couple of hefty losses. I traded on 14 horse races and 2 football matches.
My day got underway in the 13:10 at Ascot where I laid Dan Tucket for £10 @ 11.00 to start with a £10 profit. My next trade resulted in a small profit.
In the 14:15 at Newmarket I laid Trance for £106 @ 8.00 and backed back £50 @ 18.00 to leave me with a profit of £56. I followed this with another small profitable trade.
The first of my two losses came next, in the 14:35 at Haydock, where I backed Zaham for £85 @ 2.00 when looking to be in control of the race. Well he was headed with a furlong to go and I lost £85.
I made amends in the 14:50 at Newmarket where I backed Star of Light for £50 @ 3.00 to result in a profit of £100.
Then, in the next, the 14:55 at Ascot, I gave it all back as I laid Leg Spinner for £38 @ 4.20. I had put up a back @ 5.20 but was only matched for £1 so I lost £117 on the race.
Talk about a bit of a yo-yo session, in the 15:05 at Redcar I laid Observatory for £90 @ 6.00 to claw back a profit of £90. My next 6 trades all resulted in small profits.
My race trading had finished with a profit of £83.
I had been keeping one eye on the football in the afternoon and had a few browsers up on my 2nd computer in case I saw a chance of making a profit. I decided to back the under 2.5 goals in the West Ham v Man City football match for £174 @ 1.11 with a few minutes left on the clock. I laid off within 60 seconds @ 1.05 to leave me with a no risk profit of £10.
After racing had finished I started to watch and trade the Aston Villa v Liverpool match. I decided to try a new tactic and waited for what I thought was a good valued price on the under 2.5 goals. In the 62nd minute with the score sitting at 0 - 1 I backed the unders for £1215 @ 1.36. I started to off load my liability almost immediately with lays for £132 @ 1.31 and £587 @ 1.26 the rest I laid off @ 1.24 in the 69th minute to leave me with no liability. Finally in the 70th minute I laid the unders for £100 @ 1.22 which gave me a profit of £100 no matter the result, which was just as well as the game finished with 3 goals.
In the last minute of injury time I backed the under 3.5 goals for £494 @ 1.03 and £359 @ 1.02 to give me a profit of £22.
My day had finished with a profit of £215.
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