Royal Ascot: When Punters Wanted Moore Royal Ascot is horse racing’s glitziest stage, and every June the betting ring erupts as punters chase the next big winner. When one jockey–trainer partnership catches fire—think Ryan Moore and Ballydoyle—the fear of missing out (FOMO) snowballs, odds collapse and liquidity surges. For shrewd...
Twenty-Five Years on Betfair: What I’ve Learned from a Quarter-Century of Trading
Twenty-Five Years on Betfair On 18 June 2000, not long after Betfair had opened its virtual doors, I clicked “open account”, placed my first trade and wrote the opening line of a story that would change my life. Twenty-five years later I’m still here, still learning, and still humbled by what this...
Preparing to Trade a Major Racing Festival
Preparing to Trade a Major Race Meeting Why the Big Meetings Matter Flagship race meetings generate enormous interest, translating into deep, liquid markets on the exchange. For active traders like us, that’s a golden opportunity—but only if we’re ready for it. Below is my framework for gearing up before the...
Royal Ascot – Betfair Trading Tips
https://youtu.be/-YFnE2L67JE Royal Ascot - Betfair Trading Tips As we head into June, we come up against one of the biggest horse racing markets meetings of the year, Royal Ascot is upon us! It is one of the highest-profile race meetings you get outside the Grand National for non-racing types. Royal...
From a £5 Flutter flutter to full-time: my Betfair trading origin story
From a £5 Flutter flutter to full-time From the City to the exchange Back in the summer of 2000 I was still knee-deep in financial markets, crunching numbers by day and learning how order books really work by night. But the spark that lit the fire came on 18 June 2000...
Trading ‘Normal’ Horse racing markets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIBrvCiWXco Trading 'Normal' Horse racing markets Picture this: it’s the Monday right after a major horse racing meeting. Festival hangovers are everywhere, liquidity is thin, and the racing calendar has slipped into its least inspiring slot of the week. Perfect, I thought—let’s hit record and give you an unvarnished look...
Why Laying by Liability Works So Well
Why Laying by Liability Works So Well What Does “Laying by Liability” Mean? On Betfair you can lay a selection – effectively becoming the bookmaker and betting against it winning.When you lay by liability you decide how much you are willing to lose first (your liability) and let the stake...
How Teams Change Tactics With the Scorelines
How Game States Affect Tactics Modern analytics leave little doubt: top-tier English clubs play differently depending on whether they’re winning, drawing or losing. Over the last decade, consistent data shows shifts in pressing, possession, tempo and substitutions as soon as the scoreboard changes. Below is a digestible summary of that phenomenon....
Turn a losing betting strategy into a winning one
https://youtu.be/Gvu7wO90Fwo Turn a losing betting strategy into a winning one Wouldn’t it be great if you could take a losing betting strategy and miraculously turn it into a winning one? Well, that’s exactly what we’re going to do. We will take a strategy that only has a 25 % win...