Sports Trading Diary Entry 10 260312
Sports Trading Diary Entry 10 260312
Daily update of my sports trading progress.
This week has been a strange week football trading wise. I have continued football trading using the adapted football trading strategy that I started using at the back end of last week – the gains continue, although I have had a couple of stagnant days football trading wise due to me being on a course on Monday – continued below…
I started sports trading (mainly football matches) on Bet Fair at the beginning of February 2012.
Follow my progress in my daily (almost!) updated sports trading diary entries.
Firstly though, I missed out on a fabulous offer for new sports traders to get a free £25 bet – the first time they start sports trading on Bet Fair. So to make sure you don’t miss out on this wonderful offer;
Claim a risk free £25 free bet at Bet Fair, click Bet Fair £25 bet. Make sure when you join the site, that you use or see the code HU4XE6MTR in the relevant voucher area to get your risk free £25 bet.
If HU4XE6MTR doesn’t show in the relevant box when you are filling in the joining page, you might not get your £25 free bet and that would be a shame to miss eh?
Anyway, I attempted to describe this adapted football trading strategy to a friend at the weekend and the best I could come up with was; reduced risk gambling! Although, to be honest all football trading has it’s risks, as we are counting on 22 players who are kicking a bag of wind around not to muck things up for us, before we exit our football trade successfully!
I have also this week started testing a couple of BetFair Strategies and I will be reporting back with my findings on these as and when they prove to be profitable. To see the BetFair trading strategies check this link; BetFair Strategies.
Bet Angel
I also this week attended the ‘first day’ of the the Bet Angel sports trading course and had the pleasure of meeting Peter Webb – as well as other fellow sports traders on the course.
The course is held in Bet Angel‘s training room, situated at their offices in the village of Hook in Hampshire.
In Bet Angel’s comfortable air conditioned and well designed training room there is ample desk space for six students. Each desk is set on it’s own with perfect view of the speaker and projector / white board etc. Each desk has ample power plugs and when using your own laptop for various tasks it’s easy to connect to the Bet Angel wifi network.
Basically once per month Bet Angel offer a free morning’s course on sports trading; you can then if you wish pay an additional £59 to attend the afternoon session; which delves deeper into using the Bet Angel software. As you can imagine you need to contact Bet Angel to get your name down for the freebie sports trading course as places fill up pretty quickly.#
I had opted to pay and stay for the afternoon sports trading session. If you so desire you can attend a further course (usually the next day) for around £400 that goes into sports trading strategies using the Bet Angel trading software.
On the day I attended, out of six ‘students’ there was a bloke who’d flown over specially from Australia to attend both day’s sports trading courses; as well as two chaps from Ireland.
Apparently it’s not unusual to find people from all over the world on these two day sports trading training courses – which obviously adds additional credibility to Bet Angel‘s sports training course.
It quickly became apparent was that of the six of us attending the course, only two of us hadn’t chosen to do the second day. The other four sports traders all had booked into a local hotel for the night. I and the other guy (I think) by the end of the day wished we had done likewise!
I plan to complete the second day of the Bet Angel course as soon as possible. Take my advice if you can; choose to do both courses and don’t feel regret at the end of the first day that you’re not coming back for the second half tomorrow!
The first day’s course was led by a guy called Tim Leal, who described himself as a full time sports trader. The second day was going to be being led by Peter Webb. During the first day, Peter Webb popped in and out from his office adjoining, clarified any points that we might have been discussing or answered questions that we came up with during our lunch break.
Tim Leal spoke informatively and easily on the subject of sports trading. He went at the pace of the slowest person of the group, which was a good thing; as it gave everyone chance to come up to speed.
He also (as he taught) was logged into the training mode of Bet Angel trading software, which uses live data from BetFair and the information he was talking on was displayed on the projector screen and also on the vdu on each individual desk.
He also invited us to log in to our own computers, load up the Bet Angel trading software and set it to training mode and trade with him or watch results as we spoke – without of course the risk of losing any money!
All in all the £59 for the afternoon session of the Bet Angel training course was good value for money in my opinion. The free version would have been good for beginners, but in all honesty you’d want to stay for the afternoon part; as we’d barely scratched the surface of the sports trading topic – apart from the basic functions of the Bet Angel / Betfair trading interface.
When you also add in the fact that you get a free lunch as well, £59 is bloody good value in my opinion for the Bet Angel sports trading training course.
Sports Trading Diary Entry 10 260312
