Today's Horse Racing

[Consty1]

Fab trade on Proclamationofwar

Crazy, 2.3 to 2.0 in about a minute...two minutes later 2.5!

[stevequal]

Pre-race. You must have layed it four minutes out.

[Euler]

Pre-race. You must have layed it four minutes out.

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[Euler]

Meydan markets are a bit mental.

[stevequal]

I kept firmly to the three English courses to build back up the confidence. Not done badly at all today, better quality of racing and the lack of market dominant bots make a huge difference IMO.

[Zenyatta]

Only managed to do a few races later on but a complete disaster for me again, can't seem to get anything right at the moment.

I'm wondering if it might be worthwhile getting rid of the Betfair graphs, they seem to be leading me in the wrong direction every time.

I'd forget about short-term trading if I were you. Don't try to follow prices around.
Just stick to long-range value trading/punting like me, guess a direction early and 'shoot first' and hold, or wait for a move to end and 'oppose last' and hold,

'Shoot first, oppose last then hold'

should be your manta. don't try to follow moves around.

'Shoot first, oppose last then hold'

[LinusP]

Its the blind leading the blind on here sometimes.

[stevequal]

Lol.

[PeterLe]

Its the blind leading the blind on here sometimes.

"in the land of the blind; the one eyed man is king"

I dont know who wrote that, but if you read everything on here, you'd end up in a mental institute.

My advice to any newbies, would be that whilst I appreciate that everyone has an opinion (wanted to get that one in first before Jeff has a go at me! ), be very selective as to who you take advice from..
There are some very experienced and top traders on here...but not everyone is.
In the same way that if you asked the general population "Are you a good driver" I bet 99% would say they are...99% of traders would answer in a similar way.
The truth is only 1% of traders on betfair make it to the top. Be choosy as to whom you take advice from; better still discover it for yourself..

[mugsgame]

What if you're cross eyed ? Or have 1 good eye and a dodgy one

[stevequal]

Someone once did a survey and found that 90% of Harvard undergraduates believed they were in the top 10% when it came to grades.

[stevequal]

Peter how is your database coming along by the way?

[PeterLe]

Peter how is your database coming along by the way?

Hi Steve,
Probably going off topic for this post but..
I did a one month trial for Filemaker for the Mac and probably chose a bad time to take the free month as I was snowed under with year end work.
In summary, Ive decided not to go down that track. I would do if I were doing this full time, but Im going to use what time I spend on trading focussing on other things
Regards
Peter

[stevequal]

In summary, I've decided not to go down that track. I would do if I were doing this full time, but Im going to use what time I spend on trading focussing on other things.

Fair enough. I've completed 90% of my own database and like most things in life it's taken me way longer than I thought. Its also incredibly laborious.

[hgodden]

Lots of small fields again today