Introduce Yourself to the Community

John s

Who are you? John from Sheffield

What stage are you at in your trading journey? Just starting, though have done some match betting.

What's your background? Worked in retail from day 1 but its gets harder out there.

Why did you join BTC? Dabbled with the Betfair exchange and was looking for a way to make steady gains.

What do you hope to get from the community? To get and hopefully give ideas to increase my edge. You all seemed a friendly bunch. There seems to be lots of enthusiasm.

What are some of your trading goals? Looking to make enough to get some nice holidays.

Ryan

@jason-devonport welcome to the group matey, great to have you here

Like that you have spotted you don’t always have patience and want to work on that here.

Ryan

@richard-corke welcome to the community, great first post too. Love it.

Will be happy to help you achieve your goals.

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@jason-devonport Welcome mate - Be good to see you journey as we joined at the same time

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Hi All.

I am Jason from North Wales.

New to trading, but have dabbled with some matched betting, so this is week 5 of working my way through Betfair trading.

Decided to join BTC having watched and read many elements and felt I need the support and knowledge of all you guys.

I am keen to learn and get the most from trading, I work full time but would like to invest more time over the coming months/years into trading.

I am focused on Football for now, it seems vast the amount I need to learn and move my trading into something that's profitable.

I want to learn and I am like a sponge with it all, I can be a little impatient in life, but I am really focussing on taking it slowly.

Thanks Guys.

Martin

@richard-corke tennis software is working for me, are you clicking the column on the left hand side that says Monte Carlo?

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@martin Was looking at Tennis ready for Wimbledon and the Stats doesn't seem to work? I did see a comment regarding no major events but was looking at the ATP event Monte Carlo or is it the main tour events it covers?

Martin

@richard-corke welcome great to have you here! If you need any help with anything I'm always here

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Good Evening, at last made the step to join BTC after listening to many a podcast and watching you tube videos.

Who are you? Richard

Where you from? The Black Country, Stourbridge West Mids

What Stage? Just starting out on my trading journey?

Background? Been in Telecoms, to Financial Services for the last 20 years but now Sales Manager for one of the main Mobile providers

Why BTC? Love the passion and like the fact its aimed to be a professional environment not people out to belittle people.

What do I hope to get from the community? Knowledge, assistance and support but also provide it back as my knowledge grows.

Trading goals? To be consistent and slowly build a regular increase in bank. And then grow sports I trade in.

Thanks for spending time reading this

Ryan

@richard-eckley great to see you here look at me, pitching you!

Sometimes I do pitch a bit harder when I know the person could be a good member and the kinda people we are looking for.

Richard Eckley

I asked a question about how to find suitable trades easily and he said BTC can get me them in 3 clicks and my second question was also solved by joining BTC and I should really join! He did say he doesn't like to hard pitch the community on the podcast but, I should definately join, it could change my life and also it's really nice! Hence my jokey comment about the "hard sell"! I was already giving considerable thought to joining.

I've been working the last few days and I'm not off until Tuesday and work late, so have only been able to bet and forget stuff so far and watch the getting started videos.

Martin

@richard-eckley great to have you here!

Don't get me started on council tax they put my property up a band last year the cretins.

Haha I love that you repair gambling machines, sounds like you would be handy around the house!

What was it that @ryan said? I know he can be persuasive!

Safety reasons wow, bookies will say anything won't they.

If you need any help with anything just let me know.

Richard Eckley

Hello there!

I'm Richard

I'm from Grays in Essex (The one where the council got scammed, lost all the money and the tax is going up by 10% as a result. Still you've got laugh, probably).

I've been trading for a couple of months. The usual story - making steady progress and then scaled up too quickly and/or did a poorly researched trade when I couldn't keep an eye on it.

I've been a field service engineer for the last 7 years, repairing gambling machines, pool tables and other leisure machines. If I can't work out how to fix something I'll ring someone who might be able to help.

I joined BTC because Ryan really hard sold it to me on the podcast ! That and I was doing matched betting, I'm gubbed on 3 sites (officially on 2 and stealthily on 1 - I was jumping through hoops to get £10 out of BetUK and while that got sorted I asked about the lack of promotions and was told they were, temporarily, removed for "safety reasons"! ) and I thought trading would be the next step.

I hope to get better at trading by learning.

Goals wise I want to be a profitable trader, if I can do that I'll think of another goal!

Ryan

@toyin-butler Lol love this, so what do you think about your lifestyle is lavish? I am intrigued now! lol

I was chatting to a derivatives trader in the gym, she's like 34 with a Range Rover SVR and her gym bag is more expensive than everybody's in the gym combined lol

You'll find some strategies here!

Martin

@toyin-butler amazing, welcome to the family!

Keep me updated on how you get on and if you ever need any help just message me

Toyin Butler

Hello Champions!

Great to be here, my name is Toyin.
I live in Woodford which on the London/Essex border and I have had my betfair account since 2006. I opened it to use the betangel software and automate a trading strategy for a colleague who was also an oil derivatives trader. After I left the company I dropped the project and then about 2 years ago (pandemic project) I picked it up again without betangel and going direct to the exchange using their api.

All I need now are some winning strategies to automate and that's why I joined BTC (saw some great YouTube content)!

My background is software engineering, I hope to learn and laugh (not too much crying I hope) and my trading goals are to make this thing pay for my lavish lifestyle

Ryan

@patrick-mcconville Welcome! Love it when people join and say it's the best decision that they've made in a while, that's exciting!

Great to have you here, if you get stuck just shout and we shall dive in and help.

Akiva Anderson

@patrick-mcconville said in Introduce Yourself to the Community:

Hi everyone i'm Paddy from Armagh Ireland been a member from August 2022 .
i started off match betting 4 years ago and made a bank to start trading with .
seen your youtube videos and decided to join best decision i have made for a while
My greed for trading has changed im using preset stratygies at the moment and have started to dabble in automation with betangel i hope to be here for along time
being a profitable trader thanks for all the help it is invaluable

thanks again paddy

Failte Padraig! Cad e mar ata tu? Akiva is ainm dom, ta me i mo chonaí i Beal Feirste!

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Hi everyone i'm Paddy from Armagh Ireland been a member from August 2022 .
i started off match betting 4 years ago and made a bank to start trading with .
seen your youtube videos and decided to join best decision i have made for a while
My greed for trading has changed im using preset stratygies at the moment and have started to dabble in automation with betangel i hope to be here for along time
being a profitable trader thanks for all the help it is invaluable

thanks again paddy

Ryan

@tony-hastie It's another girl! I know I am big trouble

Oh yeh Brigg isnt far from me, yeh a lot of people say that as well they forget they had a family least the software gets people back to their wife and kids.