featured

Peter Webb > Betfair Trading Blog > featured

Bet Angel user guide, upgraded!

27th January 2017

As regular users will know Bet Angel has continued to grow year after year with new features continually being added, often at the request of our users. This has inevitably resulted in an ever-expanding and extensive online user guide.

Quick links

We have therefore noticed that sometimes finding the information you’re looking for may have become quite time-consuming. For this reason, we have added in a new tab ‘Quick Links’ which we hope will make the online user guide more …

featured, Features, Search, update, User Guide, Using Bet Angel

Trading the FA Cup

6th January 2017

It’s the FA Cup third round this weekend and marks just over halfway point in the season.

Has the FA Cup lost it’s ‘magic’?

If you are talking about a smaller club meeting up with a goliath, then perhaps not. But it may be that the smaller club faces a diminished version of said goliath. As they say, Money talks and it doesn’t say much in the FA Cup, apart for smaller teams.

Win a game in the second round …

fa cup, featured, football, Football / Soccer, soccer, trading, Trading strategies

How to win (and lose) £45m in a few minutes

28th December 2016

This week in 2011, we were treated to a day of spectacular proportions and this post relives that moment.

Leopardstown

It’s a busy week between Christmas and the New year and once out of the Kempton meeting, we move into a quieter period. But Leopardstown still brings us some quality and is worthy of a look as the week wears on. I’m generally less convinced by other markets but will often trade them if an opportunity presents itself.

The are …

Betfair, crash, featured, General, Horse Racing, issue, leopardstown, void race, voler la vedette

Trading Christmas racing markets

18th December 2016

It’s almost time to relax, but typically this can start and end sooner than you expect on racing markets.

Pre-Christmas period

The markets in the run up to Christmas day can be a bit barren. Indeed, this year, they thin out completely. We have some low-quality fodder through the week, then one Irish evening card on the 23rd and, obviously, nothing on the 24th and 25th.

It actually works well this year, as it means you can most likely take …

christmas, featured, General, holidays, trading

Loss recovery systems

17th December 2016

A very common question I’m asked on specific trading strategies is ‘what do I do’ about losses.

Puzzlement

At first, I was pretty puzzled by this question.

You expect losses, they are part of trading. Trading is all about getting a positive expectancy. If you trade at random you will end up with random results. Because the market is generally very efficient this means that, excluding costs and commission, you will end up neither winning nor losing a massive amount …

featured, loss recovery, loss recovery systems, recovery systems, Trading strategies

Starting out as a sports trader – Scaling up

14th December 2016

I was back on my small account on Monday. I was recording a few videos at low stakes (I posted one last week) and also giving instruction to my daughter; she is progressing nicely.

I’m also teaching a new recruit to the team. It’s interesting to watch and learn from newbies and how they look at the market. I feel like It’s a microcosm of the entire market. I ‘feel’ this in the market every day, but experiencing first hand …

featured, racing, sports trading, starting out, trading, Trading strategies

Starting out as a sports trader

3rd December 2016

I am conscious that when I post bigger totals people wonder how they were created? The first thing to note is that the commonality with them is that they were all created with a lot of experience and hard work! There are no shortcuts when it comes to really good quality trading. Knowledge, experience, hard work, the rollercoaster that is trading, all count. It takes a lot of practice to trade with larger stakes confidently, but you can do it!…

featured, small stakes, starting out, trading, Trading strategies

Seasonality in Horse Racing

1st December 2016

For some reason, I know it’s named after a horse, the Tingle Creek meeting at Sandown sounds Christmassy to me, but for sure is an early high point in December .

The meeting is joined by Aintree (The Beecher chase) and the Welsh Grand National trial on Saturday to make a decent card. It should make up for the somewhat different racing we have had during the week!

Seasonality

At this time of the year, it’s easy to slip into …

attitude, featured, Horse Racing, Psychology, racing, seasonality, Trading strategies

Bet Angel – Now ten times faster!

26th November 2016

We are pleased to announce that a new version of Bet Angel is now available.

The upgrade is free for all trial and existing users. There is no need to re-register. To upgrade simply download the latest version, install and log in!

Download it from here: –

http://www.betangel.com/download/?product=BetAngelPro

Key new feature – Exchange price streaming

This version adds support for Betfair’s Exchange Streaming for prices and bet updates. The feature is switched off by default but is activated by ticking …

bet angel, featured, General, new version, Using Bet Angel

Finding value in malevolent markets

20th November 2016

You will be forgiven for thinking that humanity is an outdated concept that should be replaced.  But they do say, to err is human. But to completely screw up, you need a computer!

Flash crashes

The stock market was set up to allow companies to raise investment capital from investors. A simple and effective concept that works. But modern financial markets are more like a giant casino. You can still raise funds, but the aftermarket dominates the central purpose. The …

ascot, bots, featured, HFT, Horse Racing, markets, over reaction, Trading strategies, value