Question about liquidity on major events.

[davis30000]

Hello,

I'm a really new trader. And I was wondering whether all the major horse racing events have huge liquidity? Cheltenham had millions traded on every race, is it anywhere close to that for other big event races?

I'm looking at these:

Fri 25 - Mar 01 All Weather Championship Finals Day LINGFIELD PARK
Thu 07 Apr - Sat 09 Apr3 Crabbie's Grand National Meeting AINTREE
Fri 15 Apr - Sat 16 Apr2 Coral Scottish Grand National Meeting AYR
Fri 22 Apr - Sat 23 Apr2 bet365 Jump Finale SANDOWN PARK
Sat 30 Apr - Sun 01 May2 QIPCO Guineas Festival NEWMARKET

How will the amounts traded look for these events? Can I expect high liquidity from them too?

[oscar123]

There will be better than average liquidity at all of those events.

Though there is only really Royal Ascot(June 14-18) which will have similar levels, if not higher levels of liquidity than Cheltenham.

[davis30000]

There will be better than average liquidity at all of those events.

Though there is only really Royal Ascot(June 14-18) which will have similar levels, if not higher levels of liquidity than Cheltenham.

Thanks, I am just planning ahead if I should take extra vacation days at work for those dates

[andyfuller]

There will be better than average liquidity at all of those events.

Though there is only really Royal Ascot(June 14-18) which will have similar levels, if not higher levels of liquidity than Cheltenham.

I would also say that it isn't all races at Royal Ascot that will have the huge volumes, the lesser races at the end of the day will have less than the equivalent races at Cheltenham.

That is based just on my memory and not data so I am happy to be corrected.

The reason being imo is that Cheltenham is more about the racing and betting and Royal Ascot is a lot about the social event as well as the racing.

[oscar123]

I'd agree with that. I wasn't basing that on any data either, I just meant that there is only really Ascot that gets close to Cheltenham in terms of volume and liquidity, I don't know the exact figures.

Another reason it might not be quite as good is that it is in mid summer and competing with other major sporting events, this year it will coincide with the Euro's.

From a personal point of view I much prefer Ascot to Cheltenham from a sporting/trading/betting perspective. And having been to both I'd take Ascot over Cheltenham every time, its a fantastic day out.