31/05/09

P&L for 31/05/09

Football : 1.87
Tennis : 1.68

P&L since last post : 3.55


Football.

7 trades on football today. Nothing major of note. On one of the italian matches the price rose during half time and I decided to scratch it when it came back down..

Tennis.

Just the 3 trades today. Two on the Murray match and one on Nadal. I got very lucky on the Nadal match as he started to lose big time just after I got out. The market was slow to react to Nadals downfall. At one point when soderling was 2-0 up on the tie break Nadal was trading at 2.35 and when Nadal made it 2-1 his price dropped to 1.8. 55 ticks for one point which did not put him in the lead. Unbelievable.


So 10 trades to put me over the £35 mark A nice end to the month. Let's hope june will be as good but with the football curtailed it might be slower going.

Keep it green everybody.

30/05/09

P&L for 30/05/09

Football : 4.04
Tennis : 2.30

P&L since last post : 6.34


Monster day. A healthy dose of good luck mixed in with good and bad judgement.

Football.

15 trades on the football today. A couple of them pretty big on the after goal trades when the price moved sharply down after I had backed giving me as much as 8 ticks in one case. The usual mix of half time and end of match trades as well.

Tennis.

I took leave of my senses and went in on Dementieva after she broke Stosur first game, only for Demmy to revert to usual WTA standards straight away. After a few games of this I took a 12 tick loss on it rather than wait it out and a good thing to as the price climbed sharply after that. At one point she DF on her serve twice in a row I managed a couple of small trades to bring my loss down to around £0.50 and then got in at the top of a sharp downswing which gave me a £2.06 green. I thanked my lucky stars and left it alone after that. I also managed a quick trade on the Djoko match but didn't do any other tennis after that.


Quite chuffed with today, hope it continues.

Keep it green everybody.

29/05/09

P&L for 29/05/09

Football : 0.99
Tennis : 0.19

P&L since last post : 1.18

Football.

4 trades today, 2 half time and 2 end of match, all on internationals. Most very quick in and out.

Tennis.

A quick in and out on the Nadal set betting market gave me my only tennis green today.


I would ahve like to do more but the damn 3G connection kept cutting in and out. At one point for an hour it refused to connect and then when it finally did connect it would stop for up to a minute at a time. I'm going to write a stern e-mail of complaint to 3 about this dismal service and tell them that if it doesn't improve then I'm off to Vodafone in a couple of months when my contract ends. Often when the connection is very slow I whip out my omnia to check how Vodafone's 3G service is running and it's always been pretty quick. It certainly couldn't be any worse.
Not the usual amount of Football tomorrow but still a decent spread compared to what we'll be seeing over the next couple of months.

Keep it green everybody.

28/05/09

P&L for 28/05/09

Football : 0.47
Tennis : 0.42

P&L since last post : 0.89

Football.

Just two football trades today. A half-time and an end of match. Relatively uneventful.

Tennis.

4 tennis trades today. Once a again I made the the mistake of forgetting that it's a 3 set win tourny and I backed Del Potro at the end of set 2 thinking he was just about to wrap it up. When he took the set and I realised my mistake I move the trade to a scratch but couldn't get it and eventually I moved it to a tick loss just to clear it out. I could have held on and got my profit or a scratch but I felt it important to clear the position even if it meant a loss and I needed to learn the lesson. The rest were fine.

So another green day. A small loss but no biggie. Some internationals padding out the football coupon tomorrow so will be looking to trade those.

Keep it green everybody.

27/05/09

P&L for 27/05/09

Football : 1.07
Tennis : 0.40

P&L since last post : 1.47

Football.

I traded 3 matches today, 5 trades in total. All half time and end of match trades. I made a big mistake on the Barca v Man U game. As half time approached I prepared to get in. I should have had a video feed open so I could see how much injury time there would be but was playing it by ear off the futbol24 score board. As the market hit 1.74 I tried to get in but it dropped to 1.73 and I couldn't get that either. I got in at 1.72 only to realise that this was the swing at the beginning of half time you see as a lot of people enter the market and then the market rose back up to 1.74/1.75. Bollocks!. I set a scratch at 1.72 and waited. Never got that low during half time and it took 8 mins out of half time to get that low again. At one point there was so much action the price rose to 1.8 before plummeting back down again. There could easily have been a goal and my foolish lack of attention could have cost me. Another lesson to learn.

Tennis.

Two trades at the start of the Murray match before heading to work. Had a look when I could during the day but didn't see any opportunities.


So another green day. Let's hope tomorrow is good too.

Keep it green everybody.

26/05/09

P&L for 26/05/09

Football : 0.66
Tennis : 0.91

P&L since last post : 1.57


Football.

4 trades on football all in the evening. 1 after goal, 1 half time , and 2 end of match. No major problems.

Tennis.

3 tennis trades today. The first in the morning on the Del Potro match which was a 3 ticker. A swift 1 tick on the Robredo set betting in the afternoon. I had managed a tick on the Tsonga v Bennetau and I decided to go back in for another. However I managed to back at the low end of the swing at a bad time and had to sit through 3 serves before Tsonga made enough headway to bring the price back down again and I could scratch it. It's always the case that when I'm stuck I see trading opportunities by the dozen and when I'm open I struggle to spot some. Probably Psychological block of some kind, LOL.

Another good green day on a day I wasn't expecting to get much done. The rain helped a bit by delaying matches to when I could trade them. Let's hope for a result tomorrow as well.

Keep it green everybody.

25/05/09

P&L for 25/05/09

Football : 1.79
Tennis : 1.06

P&L since last post : 2.85

Football.

A fair bit of football trading done today and no significant errors. I did have the one close call where after a half time back the market rose up a bit and I had to wait till a full 5 mins out of half time to get out for green. 2 mins later a goal was scored so that and it was a bit foolish on my part.

Tennis.

I was involved in four matches today and the one I want to specifically mention is the Nadal v Daniel match. Nadal was un-backable in match odds and in the set betting he was pretty low as well, but hey it's Nadal. I made the mistake of backing him at a low point when he was leading on his opponents serve and when his opponent held the market rose up again leaving me stuck. This is a mistake I've made before and it left me stuck watching as Daniel was able to hold serve 3 more times before I was able to scratch it. If I hadn't been stuck in I could have backed and layed Nadal at the start and end of his serves, respectively. This would have provided the best green but as it was I got nothing from that trade despite the time put in and of course as sod's law would have it the market did jump way down past my scratch point so I could have had a green if I had waited but it was probably best to get out.
The other matches were uneventful.

So 15 trades today on my 14th consecutive green day and over the £20 mark for the bank. Tomorrow I anticipate being busy at work and not having a lot of time to watch and trade tennis, may get a bit of football done in the evening though.

Keep it green everybody.

24/05/09

P&L for 24/05/09

Football : 1.93
Tennis : 0.30

P&L since last post : 2.23


Some harey scarey moments today.

Football.

Started the day off well again with trades in both the 1100 matches. More trades in the 1300 matches followed and I was feeling good. On to the 1400 italian matches. I had managed a half time trade in the Lecce v Florentina match and was keeping an eye on it as the clock ran down. I decided to go back in on the match with about 5 to go and not a lot of action. This is the point my laptop began to have a meltdown. I suppose having a two tab firefox window, betfair forum, open office spreadsheet and betrader pro open all at once got a little too much for it after over 4 hours. I submitted a back at 1.09 and the system counted it down and then it vanished and I couldn't tell what was happening, whether it had been taken or not and then it froze completely. I killed everything and restarted the laptop. I don't know why I did not immediately open betfair on my main system which is always on but I waited for the laptop to boot and I opened betrader and futbol24 for scoring. I found a goal had just been scored and my back had been taken before it. DAMMIT!. At this point injury time had just begun and the hedgeout point would have been 1.14. Not a massive loss I should have taken it but I had a mad gambler moment and decided to wait to get 1.08. I figured it would be pretty quick considering we were in injury time. My gambling fingers crossed tightly and then BOING!! the goal noise from futbol24 and sure enough it's the Lecce v Florentina. NOooooooooo!!!. WHY AM I SO STUP..... Oh wait it's been disallowed. WAHEEY!!. I trade out for a tick profit and the match ends. Pheww!. I really should no better than to mess around with italian matches like that.
Oh but the foolishness did not end there, see the Tennis.
I traded 2 more matches today and got good green on both.

Tennis.

I had not payed attention to what tennis was on today and just idly glanced at the in play list in the afternoon. I spotted Andy Murray v Whathisface Nobody and doing pretty well. Match odds was at bugger all but set betting still had a possible tick or two to be had. I did one trade successfully and watched a bit more of the match. As Murray went 5-1 up and was serving I was suprised to see 2-0 at 1.08 and decided to do another trade. Only after I back do I realise that the reason there is still so much on offer is because it's the french open and it's 3-0 I've backed. MUPPET!!!. Of course this is where Murray fluffs two cross court ground strokes, one on a ball that looked like it was going out to me but what do I know, and breaks himself. He does win the set and starts well in the third to give me my profit. Still a foolish mistake to make though.


So what was up with me today. I was knackered from lack of sleep. Sodding neighbours 2 floors up were having a party till 0430 and it kept me from sleeping properly. The people directly above me grumbling about it to each other didn't help either. Why didn't I go up and ask them to keep it down?. Well in my experience asking drunks to be a bit quieter when they are in full swing is not recieved well and I have a short fuse so it would have been a recipe for disaster. It's not like they do this often either so I grit my teeth and stuck my soundproof earmuffs on to block as much out as possible and dozed on and off. At least it didn't cost me any green.

So 14 trades total today. I crossed the 100 trade mark since starting to keep track 13 days ago. 13 consecutive green days as well. Not too shabby. I must not get complacent or greedy though and keep on selecting my trades carefully. Hopefully tomorrows holiday football and tennis will provide more opportunity for green.

Keep it green everybody.

23/05/09

P&L for 23/05/09

Football : 2.44

P&L since last post : 2.44


Wow, What a day!.

Football.

Started the day off with the Japanese match and managed 5 trades on that match netting £0.51. A good start. Carried on throughout the day doing after goal,half time, and end of match trades. Some of the after goal trades netting me between 6 and 14 ticks, mostly by accident when the price moved down suddenly while I was in mid lay. I did make one foolish mistake at the end of the night when I was nabbing a tick in the dying minutes of the match an instead of laying at 1.01 I layed at 1.1. Ouch!!. That cost me £1.20 of the day's profit. I stayed cool and did not go on a massive chasing rampage and was able to recover most of it on the US and Brazilian matches before calling it a night.

20 trades today in total, 19 wins and 1 loss. Some close calls, suspensions that turned out to be no goal and the like. I hope tommorrow is similarly successful and will continue to plug away.
I have not abandoned my tennis trading completely but there was nothing on today that could draw my attention away from the football markets which I felt I had a better potential with.

Keep it green everybody.

22/05/09

P&L for 22/05/09

Football : 0.41

P&L since last post : 0.41

Football.

Just two trades today but one was a big one. I went in on the fluctuation after a goal had been scored in a dutch play-off and score 6 ticks which then hedged out at evens. Nice!. I only managed one more trade after that on a french game and the market suspended while I was partly backed. However my lucky star was shining again and it turned out to be not a goal but I still dumped it for a tick straight away.

So a good day which I needed after a crappy day at work. The dying embers of the main football leagues this weekend to trade. After this it's Scandinavian, Irish, and Russian leagues plus isolated competitions and friendlies for the summer.

Keep it green everybody.

21/05/09

P&L for 21/05/09

Football : 0.35

P&L since last post : 0.35

Football.

5 trades today. The first a half time trade that went relatively quickly. In the second match I traded I did a half time trade and then waited until the last ten to go back in for more when I had a OH SHIT moment when the market suspended but fortunately it was a non-event and I cleared my trade and did one more right at the end. The fifth trade I gained 1 pence on and that was a suprise as I backed and the accidentally layed at the same price and should have been a scratch but for some reason I got a penny.

So another green day but it could have been a red day. I will have to consider dropping my staking level. It will mean being more patient, sometimes not my biggest strength. No tennis again , mobile broadband(LOL) connection was too slow again.

Keep it green everybody.

20/05/09

P&L for 20/05/09

Football : 0.39

P&L since last post : 0.39


Football.

Two matches traded today. I did a half time trade on a greek match in the late afternoon. I managed 3 trades on the Uefa cup match in the evening. One after the second goal, one at half time and one in the last ten minutes of the match. The fluctuation after a goal being scored appears to be a good spot to get a really quick 1 or 2 tick trade in but there is always the possibility of a another goal coming in rapid succession.

No tennis again today. May try and make an effort to watch the Nadal Match tommorrow but it's hard to give it a lot of time during the day.

Keep it green everybody.

19/05/09

P&L for 19/05/09

Football : 0.13

P&L since last post : 0.13

Football.

Just one match traded during the day. A half time 2 tick trade. There were no opportunities in the evening football that I felt comfy with.

Once again there was no opportunity for me to do anything with all the tennis on today, just too busy.

Keep it green everybody.

18/5/09

P&L for 18/5/09

Football : 0.43

P&L since last post : 0.43


Football.

All trading done after 2000 as during the day was impossible to trade. I got 5 trades done on three matches. Twice I narrowly escaped a loss with the market suspending as the timer was counting down the 5 second delay to my back being entered into the market. Phew.

Despite there being a fair bit of Tennis and Football on during the day I could trade none of it due to work schedule and my 3G connection being utter crap during the day. I have a 3 mobile broadband dongle and it's never been amazing at peak times but I used to be able to count on at least half a meg. Over the last couple of months the daytime bandwidth has been diabolical. Today I was getting less than 0.1 meg, which is unusable. Even when the status box is saying full strength 3G or HSDPA it's still crap. I whipped out my Omnia, which I have from Vodafone, and fired up the browser using just 3G, having disabled the HSDPA, and it was loading the same webpages really fast. Unfortunately I have no surfing allowance on my contract as I didn't think I would need it having the 3 dongle, so I can't use it without incurring charges. When my contract with 3 is up in 2 months time I may switch to vodafone for my mobile broadband to see if they have better connectivity. They could hardly be worse. What is the point of paying £25 p/mth for a mobile broadband connection which is unusable for the purpose I bought it for?.

So despite there being a lot of football and tennis on tommorrow during the day I don't know how much I will be able to trade. Ho Hum.

Keep it green everybody.

Green end to the week

P&L for 17/05/09

Football : 0.89

P&L since last post : 0.89


Football.

I wasn't expecting to get much done today but I got 9 trades done. Although one was from a Brazillian match after 2300 last night. 4 trades on the Atl Madrid v Valenica match giving me half my green.


I traded nothing between 1300 and 1930, so I wasn't expecting any big return but I did quite well, especially considering I did not even look at the tennis today. Since I started doing this 1%ish thing after reading tigers blog I've done 54 trades in 6 days and increased my bank by 131%. Not too shabby. Of course I am just waiting for the inevitable loss that will interrupt my green streak, but until then I will try to be careful.

Bike saga is still ongoing. I go the sheared bolt out eventually and refitted the exhaust this time with a sealant as well as the gaskets but she's still blowing. Not as bad as before, in fact with the fairings on it's not noticeable but an MOT tester will spot it straight away. So I will whack on more sealant and see if I can get it gas tight. A small oil leak most likely caused by me forgetting to put a rubber seal back on will be easily corrected. Nearly there.

Keep it green everybody.

Good Green Saturday.

P&L for 16/05/09

Football : 1.42
Tennis : 0.18

P&L since last post : 1.60


Crossed the £10 mark today. Woohoo.

Football.

13 trades on football today, although as we speak I have one on the go in Brazilian match but I'll add that to tommorrow. Only one was a narrow escape when a goal came just out of half time, but I had completed my trade during half time so I was okay. Trying to search for markets where I can get in and out in under 2 mins or 1 min preferably, it's a balance of liquidity and what is going on in the game.

Tennis.

What a match. Nadal v Djokovic. From Nadal losing the first set and having an injured knee, to the nail biting tie break second set and the fanatstic third set. Nadal at times seemed incapable of getting the ball over the net and then in the next rally was making shots worthy of a Jedi. I managed 2 trades in that game early in the third before the odds began flip flopping back and forward. I think Nadal went from 1.6 to 2.6 and back 3 times from point to point in one game. As was said in the forums, courtsiders dream.

So 18.8% increase in bank for the day and over the £10 mark. I'm quite chuffed. Let's hope tommorrow is as good.

Will have to spend more time working on the bike tommorrow. Got it back inside today and took the back end apart. The good news is the sheared stud is protruding and so hopefully I won't need to drill. Have had it soaking in WD40 all day and with a bit of heat I hope it will pop out and I can get a new one in and re-assemble it all tommorrow.

Keep it green everybody.

Ticking over

P&L for 15/5/09

Football : 0.08
Tennis : 0.46

P&L since last post : 0.54


Football.

Single trade on O/U 2.5 in the Mk Dons v Scunthorpe game in the final 10 mins.

Tennis.

Five trades on the tennis today although I had to scratch one. I backed Nadal at 1.06 in the match odds planning to get out at 1.04. This was not a wise move as I had not opened the video or checked the score before doing so, I know WTF!, and I had backed him as he had a lead on Verdasco serve. Verdasco held and the price went up. Nadal was a bit ropy for the next couple of games and his price went out to 1.25 at one point. I held on because it's Nadal and he eventually broke Verdasco and I got back out at 1.06 again. A lesson to be learned is never take a position without getting all available info first.

So another 6.8% increase in bank. Going well isn't it. A little too well some might say. LOL.

Keep it green everybody.

Insert title here.

P&L for 14/05/09

Football : 0.17
Tennis : 0.42

P&L since last post : 0.59


Getting tough to think of titles, May just start putting the date in, LOL.

Football.

A trade on the O/U 2.5 and 3.5 in the Leeds v Milwall game was the sum total of my football trading today.

Tennis.

I was involved in 4 matches today most of them straight forward except for the Azarenka v Szavay match. Classic example of WTA. I joined it with them a set each, Azarenka bandaged up for some reason and Szavay storming away with it. Got in and out for 1 trade and as she was doing so well 5-0 30-0 I decided to go in for another. After backing it's 40-0 and 3 game points, Azarenka then brings it back to 40-40 and breaks her. She then holds and the next Szavay serve goes to 40-40 again, we then saw 7 deuces before Szavay finally managed to put it to bed. In the midst of all this WTA carnage I traded out for a 1 tick loss, which halved my original green on it as I could see another WTA super comeback. It would not have suprised me in the slightest to have seen it go 7-6 in Azarenkas favour. Have to be careful on WTA matches.LOL!.


7 trades today , one of them a loss but mitigated by the fact that I already had green on that market from a previous trade, 8% rise in bank. Long may it continue.

The motorbike saga continues. I was able to get another bolt into the manifold without drilling or tapping so I was quite chuffed. Of course I mititgated this stroke of fortune by shearing off one of the rear exhaust studs. So bike will have to come back in to the 'garage' and I'll have to take apart the rear end again to see what I have to work with. If any of the stud is protruding I should be able to get it out. If it's flush with the manifold, then it's engine out and dissasembly for drilling as there is sod all clearance for drilling in situ. Bucketloads more work, more time , more hassle. I wish I was rich and could just shove it at a mechanic and say 'make better'. I never wanted to become a mechanic, plasterer, decorator, electrician, bicycle mechanic, plumber or any of the other things I've had to learn to do because I can't afford to pay someone to do it for me, in a fraction of the time with a fraction of the hassle. Never mind.

Keep it green everybody.

Slow progress with sudden leaps.

P&L for 13/05/09

Football : 0.13
Tennis : 1.47

P&L since last post : 1.60

Football.

A single trade on the italian match O/U 3.5 towards the end of the match gave me my £0.13 profit.

Tennis.

The same 2 tick and hedge trades on all but one match. The return from these varying between £0.05 and £0.12 depending on hedge out point. The one large amount was from The Nadal match. As Nadal was winning hands down, by the time I got to it the only market left to consider was the total games. I put my back and went for a lay out 2 ticks later but the price shot down and I ended up getting 20 ticks unexpectedly. This gave me a whopping(LOL) £0.92.

I made 8 trades today and increase my bank by 27.7%. So a good day. 19 trades into my 2 ticks and hedge strategy and I'm £1.63 ahead of 1% per trade projections. Still wary of taking a loss though as it could wipe out everything I've done so far.
I probably shouldn't be using full bank on each trade as it's a recipe for disaster. I could probably get 1% easy enough on 25% of bank for 4 ticks and hedge if it's below 1.1. It would mean slower progress and I suppose that is the point of this strategy, Not how quick I get there but that I actually get there in the end. We'll see.

My bike is resisting all of my efforts to return her to the road. Today spitting out an exhaust stud like a bullet. So lots of drilling and tapping, and possibly welding as a last resort, in my future. The joys of owning a 19 year old bike.

Keep it green everybody.

Wow. What's that strange colour?.

P&L for 12/05/09

Football : 0.18
Tennis : 0.71

P&L since last post : 0.89

It's green, that's what it is, GREEN!.

Football.

3 small 2 tick trades the reading burnley match gave me my small profit.

Tennis.

Weighed in on quite a few matches today for 2 ticks at a time and the hedge after each trade. Only came close to dodgy on Berdych when he began to struggle after taking the first set 6-0 but was eventually able to scratch it.


Feeling inspired by Tigers new blog about 1% trading and being of such small bank I've been taking that approach myself. I actually find it quite hard to just get 1%. I do 2 ticks and hedge and if the hedge is below 2.00 I get a little more than 1%, usually 1.5% to 1.9%. I did 10 trades in all increasing my bank by 18.23%. I did get lucky on one match where my lay got taken 5 ticks lower than I had intended due to a sudden drop between submitting and taken.
The only difficulty I forsee with this small amount trading is where it will be successful for a while any loss will be so big in relation to what you gain that it may unfeasible. I guess that's where careful trade selection and patience comes in. Like everyone does when doing this kind of startegy plotted my growth rate and discovered that from a starting bank of £4.75 after 1000 trades at 1% I would have £99,555.99. LOL!!. Of course this is not feasible to keep trading this way once your get up to staking £5k at a time and assumes no losses. Aaah, dreams.

Keep it green everybody.

More Foolishness.

P&L for 11/05/09

Horse Racing : 0.09
Football : -8.38

P&L since last post : - 8.29


Horse Racing.

One in-running hedge. Nothing special.

Football.

Backed unders in the Newcastle v Middlesborough game after the own goal as I thoughI might get a good trade from it but I left it too long and another goal came in and Boom Big Red.

Big upsets in the tennis today with Serena Williams retiring after set 1 and Peer retiring in what would have been the final game of set 1. At least Peer saved her backers some money. Does anyone think that the Williams sisters are on the way down or just waiting for the big tournaments to give a crap?. I know that there is the possibility of fines if they don't show up for scheduled matches but to play to the end of the first set and then give up due to injury is a bit of a slap in the face to the punters.

Keep it green everybody.

OUCH!!

P&L for 10/05/09

Football : -15.88
Tennis : -33.10

P&L since last post : -48.98


Football.

Man u v Man City. Didn't get involved at the start of the game as wasn't sure how it would go. As it got to 10 min and still 0-0 I thought I'd nip in and grab a little as the unders began to fall faster and of course BOOM! goal. Stupid move.

Tennis.

Backed Robredo to start and took a nice £8.00 green to mitigate footie losses.
I then foolishly backed Penetta after she won the second set tie break, which was ridiculous as she was clearly struggling to overcome Svazy. Of course when Svazay held 1st game of the third set Penetta odd went way up and I'm left crossing my fingers foolishly. When Penetta got broken a big red ensued.

Two stupid mistakes and a big loss.

Hope everyone is getting some green.

Just a little.

P&L for 09/05/09

Tennis : 3.50
Horse Racing : 0.94

P&L since last post : 4.44


Tennis.

I had the opportunity to sit and watch the Saf v Kuz final while waiting for a battery to charge and was debating whether to back Safina or not and left it too long and missed the big price movement at the end of the first set so I only got a little of it. Didn't watch much after that

Horse Racing.

Just a little £2 in-running hedging while I was bored, Only 3 races but still a little helps.

I took my bike outside yesterday but couldn't get it to start. It's having electrical problems which I hate. I'm not and electrician. If it's mechanical I can fix it but vehicle electrics leave me scratching my head a bit. Sorted a couple of problems but I'm without a good battery at the moment and some of the weak ones flatten before I can do much fiddling and then have to go back on the charger, for hours. Today is the last day of my week off and it's back to work tommorrow so I hope to get it running today but that probably won't leave much time for trading.

Keep it green everybody.

Zero Action

P&L for 08/05/09

P&L since last post : 0.00

Nothing doing. Zippo. Nada.

Was just too busy with other shit today.

Keep it green everybody.

Finally a green day.

P&L for 07/05/09

Football : 1.43
Tennis : 6.18

P&L since last post : 7.61


Football.

Quick unders trade after the late goal in Shrewsbury v Bury match.

Tennis.

Backed Seppi early in the day for a decent profit. Never got the chance to get on anything else.

Another day spent toiling over the Bike. Had planned to have it completely re-assembled by the end of the day but hit a small snag. Hopefully I can resolve it and have it back on the road for Saturday.

Keep it green everybody.

Bugger pt 2

P&L for 06/05/09

Tennis : -38.07

P&L since last post : -38.07

Tennis.

Backed Mathieu against Gremelayer to start and came away with a nice £12 green and then was busy for the rest of the day with other stuff. While having a break form other stuff I was watching the Safina v Zheng match and saw after a set each Safina lost her game completely and Zheng was 5-2 up in the third set. 'Oh look' I said , 'Free Money. Zheng has it in the bag'. You'd think the number of times I've seen this happen I'd know better by now. So I backed Zheng serving for the set. OH wow, look all of a sudden wild-shot-double-faulting Safina is gone, world number 1 Safina is back on the court and Zheng can't keep the ball on court to save her life. Safina takes the next 4 games in a row breaking Zheng twice and Zheng finally gets one taking it to a tie break. The most stupid thing of all happens when Zheng is 3-1 up in the tie break and I have the opportunity to red out for a £4 loss for the day, AND I DON'T TAKE IT. WTF is wrong with me!!. Safina wins it. I was just unable to take the red, I'd gotten to emotional about the flip flop and had to be a mug punter about it. LOSER!!

Until I learn to stop doing this I'll never get anywhere.

Keep it green everybody.

Bugger!.

P&L for 05/03/09

Football : -35.89
Tennis : 16.31

P&L since last post : -19.58

Tennis.

Two matches done today for the a decent profit as you can see.

Football.

Says it all doesn't it. I thought that the Arsenal v Man Utd game would be ripe for an unders trade . So I stuck my back in and a lay for ten ticks later and waited. I actually managed to get a third of my stake layed out at the ten tick point when the first goal came in at 7 mins. I was looking at the hedge out amount and calculating that I would lose all the days profit but it was worth it and was moving the mouse to the hedge button when the second goal came at 10 mins. I then took a big red. Stupid, should have moved quicker.

HO BLOODY HUM.

Keep it green everybody.

Green in the glimpses.

P&L for 04/05/08

Football : 1.60
Tennis : 12.16

P&L since last post : 13.76

Football.

No footbal today for me despite all of the bank holiday matches. I was busy all day with other matters and only did a quick 4 tick unders trade on the Aston Villa v Hull game last thing.

Tennis.

Faffed around with a back of Benesova as she put up a lacklustre performance against Silva. Eventually scratched it and layed her and was out again in less than a minute and hedged for £2.50. Left it alone after that.
Only other match today for me was Vesnina v Craybas. backed Vesnina pre match and the got caught up with other matters. Which is a sort of a good thing because if I'd seen how she lost the first set I'd have traded out for a loss. She won the second and was 2-0 up in the third when I wandered back to the computer and I hedged out for £9.66 and thought myself very lucky.


The aforementioned other matters is still my bike which I'm scrambling to get finished for the end of the week, but still so much to do. I'm struggling with lethargy and it's a real battle to get out of bed in the morning and get stuck in to anything. I get like this when I'm off work. I sit and think about all the things I want to do or get done during my time off and when it comes I find it difficult to get my arse in gear and the time just slips away. I've had my bike on SORN and sitting in the spare room since September and I've been telling myself all that time to get it done and now I'm hurrying through it with little time left. Story of my life.

Keep it green everybody.

Another quiet day.

P&L for 03/05/09

Football : 2.26
Tennis : 1.71

P&L since last post : 3.97

Football.

Just one game. The Spanish Segunda division match at 1100. Thought it would be a no score game in half time and was able to leave it 16 mins before hedging out for 20 ticks on a small stake. I was too busy for anything other match today.

Tennis.

Started the day with a back of Na Li against Bammer. Na Li breaks with a double fault in the frist game of the match. Just fantastic. I layed it out but didn't hedge the red and as Na Li lost I didn't loose anything so a bit of a relief there.
I layed Nadal and backed it back again a tick later. I then tried again to do the same thing with a larger tick amount but his price dropped a she began to get the better of Djoko. Fortunately Djoko came back and I was able to scratch it and I left it alone after that.

So another quiet day for me. Spent most fo the day working on my bike. So much to do. Don't know how much of tommorrows tennis I'll be able to pay attention to, have to crack on with real world stuff.

Keep it green everybody.

Naff Day.

P&L for 02/05/09

Tennis : 3.38
Football : -15.67

P&L since last post : -11.84

Football.

Only took part in one game today and what a stinker it was. FC Tokyo v Omiya at 1100. I don't know why I was involved in that match. The stats looked bad for an unders trade. The price didn't move at all in the first five minutes and I should have bailed out for a 2 tick loss and had moved my lay up for scratch out at my entry of 2.0 but there was a lump of money there already and rather than take 2.02 I decided to wait and sure enough a goal at 5 mins in had me redding out for a loss. Stupid avoidable pointless mistake.

Tennis.

Fed v Djoko. Got green on Djoko early in the match while the market was favouring him. Got some green on Fed 2-0 early in the second match but didn't hedge it so it came to nothing.
Did not get on the Nadal match as I was busy and by the time I had a look he was tiny odds across the board.

Ho Hum.

Quiet day.

P&L for 01/05/09

Tennis : 1.21

P&L since last post : 1.21

Tennis.

I wanted to have a go on the Djoko game to start but felt unsure about where it would go and ended up missing the boat on that one. I got on Nadal 2-0 when I got home early for work and trade it out for a £8.97 green and was quite chuffed. Later ,after steering clear of the WTA, I decided to back Monaco as he took the first set not realising that this was going to be as bad as WTA if not worse. There were some truly awful shots and an untold number of UE's. Up and down the odds went and I eventually took a £7.76 red on that match leaving me with a bit of a small green. Hey' it's better than a red day.

Unfortunately the Monaco v Gonzales debacle had me occupied during all the football so nothing on there.
The weekend is here and I'm on holiday next week. Operation Motorbike Rebuild is in full effect tommorrow regardless of what trading opportunties there are. I must knuckle down and get a lot done. I will still dip in and out on prime markets though.

Keep it green everybody.

Welcome green.

P&L for 30/04/09

Tennis : -1.97
Football : 3.68

P&L since last post : 1.71


Tennis.

A back of Djoko to start. For once he did the business with a lack of drama. Off to a good start. I then watched the first set of Fed v Step. It looked like one of those games where the Fed price wold go up and down so I layed Fed during game one of the second set and it immediately became a Fed express train to 1.01. Bugger. Took some Green on Nadal 2-0 at the end of the night to make the tennis a small loss for the day.

Football.

A couple of tick trades on W bremen v Hamburg and a south american match last night was enough to push me into the green for the day.

Early finish from work today and then on holiday for a week, Thank God!!!. I am determined to finish my motorbike this week preferably by mid week so I can rest my back for a bit before heading back to work. I think having it finished and being able to get out riding will lift some of the depression cloud I've been trading( and living) under for the past 6 months. I've got a lot to do though so busy days ahead.

Keep it green everybody.