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Conjure up an image, it’s February 2005. If you knew Peter Webb back then, it was because I wrote for a number of magazines. But more ‘famously’ for Shares Magazine where I was a weekly columnist on all matters surrounding long term investing. But here I was, in the heart of London’s financial district about…
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There are quite a few components to successful betting or trading. Everybody wants a winning strategy, but part of your process should be to select a suitable market and a suitable selection within that market. Bet Angel can import your data Before version 1.56 of Bet Angel, the only way you could bring data into…
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Everybody likes a little bit of a flutter now and again, a bet on their favourite sporting event. When we look at horse racing, it could be the colours of the jockey silks or maybe it’s the name of the horse? Having a bet on it adds a little bit of interest to that underlying…
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If you are Betfair trading, it’s important to look at the Betfair charts. While some sports don’t suit charting, they are especially useful if you are trading pre-off horse racing markets. They plot price action and give you some idea of where the general trends are in the market. However, there is a problem with…
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Friday the 13th, Halloween, black cats, ladders (excuse the pun ) can all bring on superstition, foreboding and dread. So can trading, but trading doesn’t need to be scary. When you start playing with numbers, you learn a lot. Encapsulating things into a mathematical description allows you to estimate risk pretty well and frame your…
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Following the crowd… A lot of that decision making is pretty errant in the scheme of things. It was one of the main reasons that you saw people buying toilet rolls last year! It wasn’t the fact that they needed more toilet rolls, It was the fact that everybody else was buying that drove those…
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When you’ve been betting profitably over a large number of years, across an even bigger number of events, naturally the most common question I get is – what’s the big secret? Over my many years of trading, I have found a number of key facets that are fundamental to being able to bet profitably over…
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Cash out I’ll never forget the joy of discovering greening-up, as I called it, hedging as you may call it in the stock market, or cash-out as the industry chose to adopt. The ability to win whatever the result was a real game-changer. Nowadays, it’s accepted as a standard feature on betting exchanges and sportsbooks,…
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Here a curious story I learnt when research Tennis. It starts way back when Tennis was ‘real tennis’ and not ‘lawn’ tennis. Now Tennis comes in many forms, but its origins have long since be lost in the mists of history. Real Tennis Wimbledon’s official name is ‘The All England Lawn Tennis Championships’ hence the…
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What is draw bias? Draw bias is the tendancy for horses at some tracks to win more often that horses drawn in different stall positions. To understand draw bias, we need to look at the starting stalls. To be fair to all horses over shorter distance races, typically all flat races, stalls are used to…
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