Introduce Yourself to the Community
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@david-crisp Hi David, great to see some more new people like myself here, good luck with everything!
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Who you are? Ben, car salesman that started with match betting and now looking to progress into trading.
Where you are from? Leicester, UK.
What stage are you at in your trading journey: Early doors. Currently done 43 LTD games, off my own back using best judgment and currently up £222, would have been £400+ if it wasn't for a few pesky results.
What's your background? Love sports. Got into matched betting and used it as a high interested bank account, now want to earn more for my time inputted
Why did you join BTC? Seemed like the best community
What do you hope to get from the community? Knowledge from the members and good picks
What are some of your trading goals? 20-30k a year profit would be niceQuick question if you don't mind, on the statistics picker, when using members filters it obviously comes up with all the selections that fit the criteria, I've never entered a trade without the market being above 25k traded. If I set the filter to only show above 25k it barely shows any games. What's the general rules for money traded in the market?
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Good Day All
I'm David and new here, (two weeks or so).
Live in Norfolk, not far from Norwich.
I work part time in the construction industry and am working on something internet retail based as I gear down to retirement.
Have been trading and betting on and off for many years. Haven't lost or gained anything much except experience and a fair bit of knowledge of what not to do and what (sometimes) works for me.
Had a bit of success scalping horses but often failed on discipline and found it too frantic. Also with the Betfair outages getting more common (it seems anyway) I seem to have been on the wrong side of many more than right.
This site looks mainly focused on football, which I know very little about.
For my own part I am looking to lay horses, which as I've spent most time on and feel learning a whole new sport (football or tennis) may be a bridge too far having not completely mastered the horses after so many years. -
New Member - Steven Grzywacz From Reigate.
Who you are? Steven Grzywacz, like quite technical but also creative stuff/work, various sports (esp. SUP surfing currently), staying healthy, PC games, and amusing people.
Where you are from? Guildford originally, lived abroad in Norway and Holland as a kid, have been back in the UK near London for ages, and find it excellent down here.
What stage are you at in your trading journey: literally right at the start. Have learnt loads by recently starting matched betting. Knowing that gubbing will eventually happen, I thought learning about trading properly is an even more interesting and logical next move.
What's your background? Studied Zoology at Leeds, via tonnes of ridiculous/sh*te jobs ended up doing digital marketing in my brother and I's company, then for others (sometimes quite horrendous experience), now back to working in my original company where we create our own quality products to sell online in places like Amazon.
Why did you join BTC? Is the only place where I think you can actually learn the important nuts and bolts of trading, at any level, and can ask whatever you like with a group of similarly interested people. Maybe I'm wrong, but there seems to be nothing else like it.
What do you hope to get from the community? Enough information to start trading, seeing results, and eventually get profitable whilst having an excellent community to share thoughts with, find out, or create, new things and help everyone live better
What are some of your trading goals? I'm totally new, so things are not so clear right now. Understand the basics, choose what sport and times are best, start simple, do some trades, eventually pay for BTC's subscription, ultimately get profitable and develop new things, bounce some ideas around with others to create amazing results, and help others along in the process. Automation seems like the future, would be good to try that when ready.
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@kenneth-glossop hey Kenneth, welcome to BTC I'm new too, learning lots, really enjoying the football chat room, see you there
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Hi all, great to meet everyone!
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ya iv'e seen them do that with the pan and spoon but that was when barca won champions league, done a tour of spain last may 4500km, not on a cycle tour but in a car, what a great country, i would recommend
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@john-dunne i love Barselona too.I was cycltouring 2 vacations trough that region of Catalonia,
spending most of the time in Barcelona.
The second was just a week after the referendum:)When I first saw the woman in the evening, come out to the balcony directly next to my hotel window and start hit pan with the spoon for some few minutes without break,I thought something bad happened to her psyche.But when from cafe other dishes musicians joined,i realized that it was a form of protest.:D
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@martins-pusko ya lived in barca for 3 yrs miss the place, Ireland is not as sunny
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@john-dunne ,thanks buddy!
Spain outdoor was realy nice:) Good weather there
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hey mate, nice intro, love the interest in cannabis growing, i was a grower when i lived in Spain, im back home in Ireland now so no more weed growing for now, anyway good to read your story, take your time, learn all you can and best of luck
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Hi,im Martin.
Im from Riga,Latvia.
Im 34 years young:)Im on my second football season of learning seriously this trading art.
First i heard about betfair trading was some 4-5 years ago,but if i look back,i see that I was not psychologically ready for it.
There was no way I could maintain discipline with the state of mind of that time.At this stage of life im jumping from working in Latvia and going to Netherlands after more money.
In Latvia my work area is related to culture and entertainment. I work as a light system operator, sometimes as a DJ. In Netherlads its are low-skilled jobs,but wih higher salary.Some time ago, I grew and sold cannabis to a,mature, mentally healthy artistically oriented small group of people.
I am a passionate advocate of legalization, although I do not smoke at this stage because it will negatively impact MY(important note its individual)short term memory.Not married. it gives me the privilege to dedicate more time to learning trading.
My field of activity was mostly football, but I have to admit that tennis is very attractive.I see many big opportunities there.
I used to play football a pretty serious level until the age of 18. Now I watch soccer often.
I look at it as an art form without being attached to a teams.
I also really like tennis.I was also interested in psychology.
I read the crowd directions quite easily.
Sometimes I am amazed at how simple, primitive manipulation it catches on.
It is clearly visible in local and international politics.While doing boring work in the Netherlands, I was listening to the BTC podcast.
I also listened to Ryan's interview with the betting business podcast.
I liked the BTC concept, as Ryan described it, it really sounds to me that it's not for profit but to create a community where fellow members can support each other.My goal is to make a living so that other jobs remain just for self-realization and joy.
And nowadays I have no doubt that by investing time and work, it is quite realistic for me.
Usually I'm pretty self-critical and cautious.
Perhaps small an advantage it is that living in Latvia today is not too expensive.
At the moment my salary in Latvia is about 1000euro a month.And it is full time work, which requires qualification.
So I think it's really realistic to get a similar level of income by trading.
Of course its first goal, but most important.
Because the ultimate goal is freedom, how comfortable it should be ,I don't think about it now.But of course I don't focus on it in my daily trading.My daily goal is to develop systems for maximum efficiency.And find new profit opportunities.
Thanks for reading!
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Cheers
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Hi I'm Bill Liddle
I live on the seashore of Whitley Bay
I've been trading about 3 months mainly through Bet Angel
I'm a retired house builder
Saw the BTC advert and after some investigation thought I'd give it a try
I'm hoping to become more proficient at trading through being mentored..I've had some reasonable successes having recovered my initial bank limit of 2K since starting.
I've been dabbling with automation with mainly on the negative side of the coin. So with assistance I'll be able to gain a better insight to this area of trading. -
@radomir-greczka Welcome to the group, happy to have you here.
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welcome everyone! lots of new members this week, great to have you all on board, any questions just ask on the megathread: http://forum.betfairtradingcommunity.com/topic/648/trading-q-and-a-megathread-ask-us-anything
or if you are too shy message me and I will get back to you as soon as I am able
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Hi everyone!
Who you are?
Radek GreczkaWhere you are from?
Poznan / PolandWhat stage are you at in your trading journey?
I understand the basics of trade. I want to increase my knowledge and skills.What's your background?
I am currently a sales director at an insurance company.Why did you join BTC?
I was looking for a group of people who would understand me and I understand them I was looking for a place that would offer tools, knowledge and a willingness to share experiences.What do you hope to get from the community?
Support, help, your experience. I want to stop blindfolding.What are some of your trading goals?
First of all, learn not to lose money. I often won a big bank, which I lost. Also get to know the markets and learn to make stable profits.
