It was not a good day for the Sports Trader today after making my first wrong move in a Twenty20 match. I traded on 4 horse races 2 cricket matches and 1 football match.
My day started with the Twenty20 cricket match between England and New Zealand and I made a real blunder by backing England for £800 @ 1.38 just at the wrong time as with the next ball the price went against me after a wicket was taken and I was left with few options to trade out. I could have got out about 15 minutes later with just a small loss but decided England would come through, however they didn't so I made a loss of £770 on the match.
My horse race trading got under way at 14:25 with a small loss followed by a small profit. Then came the best trade of my day in the 15:30 at Thirsk as I laid Generous Jim for £629 @ 3.00 to result in a profit of £629.
The last race trade of my day came in the 16:55 at Listowel where I laid Head Waiter for £82 @ 9.50 before backing back £14 @ 12.00 to produce a profit of £68.
My race trading had returned a profit of £696.
In the evening I traded on the Shakhtar Donetsk v Celtic football match. By the time I had got settled down to this match it was already 2 - 0 with only 10 minutes played. I decided to have a back of the under 2.50 goals for £71 @ 7.70. I then gradually laid off in £10 lots @ 6.56, 6.00, 5.17, 4.85, 4.33, 3.94 and 3.70 which left me with no liability and then slowly greened up to leave a profit of £82 no matter the result.
My day, which had looked very bad early on, finished with a loss of £52.
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