Got my best trade of the 'Cup' from that race, started really early to get onto 'Enables' drift
Breeder's Cup
Small amusements. I got one of those scam sms messages telling me my credit card had been hacked at 4 am (my time). 
Thought Id check in on the bots and the breeders cup. But then checking in realised I had forgotten my subscription expired last night. I already had purchased my new serial number so a quick trip downstairs to the study in the dark, fire up the desk top, input the new serial number and reset guardian.
So for once the scammers were helpful.
Thought Id check in on the bots and the breeders cup. But then checking in realised I had forgotten my subscription expired last night. I already had purchased my new serial number so a quick trip downstairs to the study in the dark, fire up the desk top, input the new serial number and reset guardian.
So for once the scammers were helpful.
As I said on the forum the other day about the BC, prepare to be disappointed and having looked at a few markets yesterday I soon turned off the PC and just watched it on TV. It is important to remember that you don't have to trade everything and to focus on where you know you can do well and this week for me it is going to be down under which requires resting up.
On the whole I dislike big race meetings. They get over hyped on here and elsewhere imo and are often talked about like they are make or break for the season etc but really imo they are just the cherry on top. You need to be focusing on the day in day out stuff as that is where most people are going to make most of their money, not these few select days of racing.
They are actually quite dangerous I think as they have become self fulfilling in terms of having to use large stakes to make them worth the effort as there is so much money stacked up in the markets, think Cheltenham, this leads to people who perhaps are not experienced enough using stakes much bigger than they should/are comfortable with using and normal trading discipline goes out the window as everything is ratcheted up.
These big race meetings are vastly more suited to the likes of Peter who has been trading for years and has no issues with switching from a £100 stake to a £10,000 stake. Just look at the other week where he put over £500,000 through the market in one day. You don't do those sorts of figures on the stake sizes that most traders use and you don't do it year after year without feeling 100% comfortable with it.
But imo others feel like they should be using much larger stakes than they are comfortable to because of all the hype that surrounds these big meetings and they think they can turn up and trade them like any other meeting they do not realise that they trade very very differently and you only have a few occasions a year to practice trading them.
For me, the big meetings are as I said at the start, the cherry on top, I don't get hung up about them like others do and tbh I am usually fed up of Cheltenham before it even starts as we now have the next near on 5 months where everything just about is focused to those few days.
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Had my best ever Breeders’ cup. Good start backing Bulletin at 9/1. Appears I didn’t miss anything on the trading front..
It’s so much more fun to sit and watch with a few beers and a takeaway then to trade it and worth the money too imo.
I just have to wait another year until it starts again!
It’s so much more fun to sit and watch with a few beers and a takeaway then to trade it and worth the money too imo.
I just have to wait another year until it starts again!
