My Trading diary
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Tuesday 20th
LTD
Derry City Dundalk -2.80
Drogheda Shamrock Rovers 0.98
Woking Torquay 0.98
Niort Troyes 0.98Back another goal
Portadown V Larne 0.78
Chelsea v Brighton -0.5total + 0.42
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Monday 19th April
2 trades today.
LTD
Vancouver Whitecaps v Portland Timbers 0.98Back another goal
Leeds v Liverpool. 0.98It was 0-1 at this stage and Leeds were looking like getting an equaliser and there was always the chance of a Liverpool goal on the break. Ended 1-1.
2 trades and +1.96 points
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Saturday trades>
Barnet Aldershot 0.98
Crotone Udinese 0.98
R. Volgograd Dynamo Moscow 0.98
Wolfsburg Bayern Munich 0.983.92 points up then it went downhill with 2 losses in the Zenit and Braga games.
LTD -2.18
Also had a trade in back another goal in the Orlando v Atalanta game. -1 point.
Yesterdays total -3.18
Today was better.
Sagamihara Iwata 0.98
Ural Rubin Kazan 0.98
Zlatibor Cajetina Rad 0.98
Dijon Nice 0.98
Bordeaux Monaco 0.98Also had back another goal in PSG V St Ethienne at 0-0 with a price of 1.65 for 1 point liability.
With just the Lyon game to come in LTD and have my eye on a few games for backing another goal.
Also have a lay on Morikawa at 3.2. Currently he is 5 shots behind leader Stewart Cink. He was 4 shots behind when I placed the trade. In my eyes the market overreacted to Morikawa making birdie at 1 when Cink made par. 4 shots behind and at 3.2 was a mad price.
Will update later on.
update:
Lyon game did not make it to 4.1 so I had no trade in that game.
Entered the Madrid game for a goal at 1.65. Ended 0-0.Total for today
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@eamonn-hogan nice start buddy!
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2 trades in LTD.
Waterford V Bohemians
Farense V Sporting
+1.96Back another goal
Leipzig v Hoffenheim -1
Lille v Montpellier +0.69
Farense V Sporting -1-1.31
Total +0.65
Good start to the weekend. Hope it continues.
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@eamonn-hogan all these trades were done by you mate, cracking week, lets hope the weekend is good for you
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Thanks for the help mate
@darri said in My Trading diary:@eamonn-hogan When someone listens and actually gets to grips with managing themselves well they reap the rewards, glad you made the change mate
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@eamonn-hogan When someone listens and actually gets to grips with managing themselves well they reap the rewards, glad you made the change mate
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One trade today in the LTD.
Sparta Prague v Arsenal 0.98 points.
Back another goal
Man Utd V Granada 1.3 points.Total for today
+2.28My trading week runs Friday to Thursday and it has been a good one. From cutting out a lot of strategies and just using an adapted version of Stuarts LTD and the backing of another goal has been a weight of my shoulders.
Less is definitely more.
I am not having to spend time doing different amount of trades and I can actually now sit and enjoy watching a game rather than having to monitor 3 or 4.
Total for the week.
+13.41 points
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Two trades today.
Back another goal in the Jablonec v Sparta Prague game at odds of 2.5. 0.5 point stake. Second half started lively and waited until the 70th minute to enter. Goal came in the 87th minute (0.74 green)
Backed Dortmund to qualify at 6.4. I thought that was far too big a price for them being at home. Entered for 0.5 points. Dortmund took the lead and I removed the red for a free bet. Unfortuantly City went through (scratch trade)
Total for today +0.74
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LTD
Derry City v Shamrock Rovers 0.98
Weymouth v Aldershot 0.98I backed PSG to qualify at 1.44 to win 1 point, laid 0.5 points at 1.25 to make 0.67 points.
Also backed another goal in chelsea game as I thought as Porto would have had to come out and score and maybe chelsea would hit them on the break. Backed at 2.3 (0.5 points) and again at 3.5 (0.25 points). Finished 0-1 to bring up 1.25 in that trade.
Total for today
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@eamonn-hogan nicely done
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@eamonn-hogan YESSSS mate
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3 trades today and 3 winners
2 in LTD
Academico Viseu Vizela 0.98
Ashdod Maccabi Haifa 0.98And one trade in the Celta Vigo v Sevilla game. It was 3-2 Celta Vigo at half time and I tuned into watch the second half. I watched the game and Sevilla equalised. I then entered for another goal after I seen that both teams were eager for the win. Another goal was 1.57 so I entered to win 1 point. Sevilla scored to make it 3-4 and I closed betfair down.
+2.94 points today
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@darri spot on!
@Eamonn-Hogan read this if you want to know more about why we recommend paper trading: https://betfairtradingcommunity.com/en/blog/paper-trading-–-trader’s-best-friend
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@eamonn-hogan Lovely stuff mate
Remember when testing a new strategy its best to paper trade and build up a dataset for them, rather than commit to a using your bank. These things add up. When using money on them you can become disillusioned by bad swings but actually you could be onto something long term. For example my lates were born out of me just lcs at 1.5, on my blog at the start thats all i was doing. But actually in the background i was testing the lates to see if they were better, id not be in this position without them, but actually they started off at a loss in testing because i never had a chance to improve them, then obviously i did improve. Imagine if i binned them
There are often blatant/hidden tweaks that you could find if you test it fully. Kind of similar in that respect to the question you asked on my blog, let things have a chance to happen and breathe. Strategies can go through cycles of variance. When starting a strategy you will have no idea at what point of that cycle you are at, so let testing run in the background. This way i was never emotionally or financially attached to the testing phase. Id have scrapped all of my strategies based on that, very rare to find a great strategy from your first run of it. Idea - test - optimise - money. This is a good process to take when testing. Removes all the opinions, money etc from it. The other factor is efficiency, which is actually the biggest reason i bin testing of some strategies. Adding more trades just because it might create an angle means more work and may take you off focus from the key strategy. Often see people trading far too many things, complicated rules etc and its becomes unmanageable. Keep it simple. I do some of the most basic trades you can, but i do them well and manage them well. Build until you have a main strategy then start paper trading another, keep doing that cycle until your happy. All i do now outside of my main trades is test other things, i want to see if i can find anything better than what iv got, because what iv got right now is manageable for me. You dont want to be trading all the time. Less is more, as long as that is quality. Often people tend to focus on building a large portfolio of strategies, only do that if they add value to you and your trading. A few strategies used over a weekend could become quite a large liability outlay of your bank. We have all seen those funny days were everything goes against the norm. Your doing well mate -
More changes made to my plan.
I have decided that doing the under 2.5 on the Ltd was giving me too many trades and in the end they were actually eating into my profits for the 2 days that I used it. I know you should give something time but I feel that it is taking me away from watching games and getting involved in the backing of another goal.
I made 2.46 points today from Ltd and and backing the under 2.5. If I had of left the unders out I would have made 3.16.
I had 3 trades in the backing another goal. Spurs, Inter and Sporting games with the first two coming in and making 1.02 points.
I currently have 2 lay trades of Zalatoris in the masters, one at 11 and one at 5.5 to bring up 1.96 points. He is currently 5 shots back of Matsuyama so it should end up a good day of 5.44 points.
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@darri said in My Trading diary:
@eamonn-hogan top stuff mate, great result for her too
yes mate. Next week will be harder against France
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@matt-wood said in My Trading diary:
Was just typing the same, you must be a proud father
very proud. She plays for the irish sevens team professionally. Great to see her get paid for what she loves doing. She has been called into the 15's side as the sevens are not travelling anywhere at the moment.
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@eamonn-hogan top stuff mate, great result for her too
