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Article #277:

Betfair Race Trading Strategy: Step By Step Guide For Betting Exchange Success: Part 1

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What I am going to outline over this reflect purely a historical paper-based
series of articles is a method that can assessment of a horses chances as viewed
be used successfully for trading horses by the bookmaker, but as the day wears on
on Betfair. "news" begins to move prices rapidly, and
I guarantee this method works and will as the horses start "going down" the
make you a profit with minimal financial action really takes off.
risk to your overall betting pot. If you Prices at 10/1 in the morning can be 5/1
stick rigidly to the rules!! or 20/1 by the time the horses are
I am going to have to make qualifying entering the stalls.
statements because if you don't stick This is where the experienced confident
carefully to the rules and instructions, trader can really scalp the market and
you will lose money over the long term. make guaranteed profits depending on
My qualifications are as below: their expertise.
+ 5 years as a traditional horse racing Before you get carried away with this
punter (loser overall) information, beware!
+ 2 years of Betfair punting breaking The real challenge in horse trading is as
even. always the crucial missing link in the
+ 6 months using my finely tuned trading chain that other so-called "experts"
method (overall profit) always forget to tell you.
Why am I giving away this information, "knowing" which race and which horse
wont it affect my profits? price are going to move to a significant
I'm sure you've seen these sort of enough degree to cover the market spread
statements before on your own research and so allow you to trade.
into Betfair. Steaming is the movement of horse prices
There are betting systems galore downward. Drifting is the reverse.
presented on the internet. Everyone Movement of horse prices upwards.
claims their system is the only one that It is possible to trade in both
works. directions. Most professional traders
Surprisingly, the standard answer to this however look for steamers as this is
question for once is actually true, and I where you will get the greatest liquidity
will attempt to explain why. due to lack of backers on horses which
Similarly to the Stock Market trading or are drifting for obvious reasons.
scalping on Betfair relies totally on This is where most trading "advisors" and
liquidity and volatility or in layman's book writers and manuals leave you. Like
terms.CASH and NEWS!! most promises of wealth and success on
The more cash flowing through any the internet, there's hype more hype a
financial trading system the more bull little bit of advertising and then a tiny
and bear trends are followed and nugget of an idea at the end which has
therefore exaggerated. This in turn leads cost you £200.
to trends being more defined and longer Later I will be showing you exactly how I
lasting and so becoming easier to trade. go about looking for steamers that I can
With more cash attempting to trade these get on early enough to guarantee a
peaks and troughs bigger bets can be worthwhile profit for my efforts.
matched and so on and so forth. As you learn and refine your own trading
These systems are self perpetuating until style and expertise you will get a feel
the bubble created by buyers matching of your own for steamers. Everything else
sellers, in other words demand matching is academic and can be taught, the art of
supply, bursts!! finding a steamer and timing your trades
And what is the initial trigger for a is just something you develop and learn
trend up or down or a sharp change of by practice.
direction? Innovate, experiment, and learn by doing.
Well in the Stock Market there are a Take the pain of losing bets and always
variety of different factors, but ruminate, cogitate and digest the
ultimately the sharp price movements are information as to what went wrong and
all triggered by NEWS. why.
Okay, this news may come from a thousand This is the only way you will learn to
different sources ie profit warnings, identify steamers and trade them
changing fundamantals such as account effectively.
statements and balance sheets, movements FACT: The more people using these and any
of the related exchange index, all the other methods and systems on Betfair the
way down to things as spurious as better for everyone.
hurricane warnings, terror attacks and For every punter that I teach to win,
the interest rate. there will be a hundred others who will
Trading the Stock Market, it's extremely be using this and/or other systems.
difficult for the average punter to 90% of people attempting to learn and
follow these sources of news 24/7 and follow a system will ignore a lot of the
piece them together because they come rules and caveats, or won't be as good or
from so many different angles and by the determined as the top 10%.
time you hear about them the market is Therefore they will lose their money,
often already pricing in the news. which then in turn becomes available for
You are competing against multi billion you to win!!
pound corporations, banks and pension Let us get one thing straight about
funds, guys in the city who are paid huge Betfair:
sums to trade this information. Robots When you begin to win then the money you
and multi-million dollar auto-trading will receive is being taken from losing
computerized facilities compete for every punters.
penny. Betfair is just a MEDIUM, hence the
Unless you are sitting in a news phrase "EXCHANGE" that matches your money
conference with a laptop and wi-fi you directly with money from another punter
will never beat these markets. or punters with an opposing view about an
The news can happen at any time of day or event.
night meaning you can wake to find you've If you are backing an "event" to win then
missed an important piece of news and the money you are wagering is matched
your Stock has plummeted at opening time. against another who is "laying" the event
The reason Betfair is the perfect to lose.
"trading" medium is due to the massive To really understand Betfair trading we
volatility involved in horse racing, and need to understand the benefits of
enough liquidity around the top horses in liquidity and volatility to experienced
a race. traders, and to do this we will use an
A horse race is also a defined entity example of liquidity and volatility in
with prices starting the night before, a action in the Stock Market.
race start and a race end i.e. the Stock In my next article I will be looking at a
exists essentially for less than a day. recent FTSE 100 Stock situation to
The market is too volatile and demonstrate a perfect example of
unpredictable for the big players. It is volatility and liquidity in the Stock
a collection of small players like Market and how professional traders make
yourself pitting their wits against each easy money by disseminating vital news in
other and the system. advance of the market.
The racing prices given early in the day






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