Aug 2024 £3000 - ? Bank Challenge

[A Former User]

@richard-latimer hey bud just logged in and saw this, good to see you back posting mate

As far as this goes trading wise please be careful. The mindset of this needing to work financially iv never ever seen end well for anyone. This stuff takes time to compound. There is absolutely no golden strategy that will cure that process. Yes some strategies work better than others but never think you are winning all the time. I do know you were joking about the premium charge line but personally i want to see you do well and use this whole thing as a positive for change rather than a necessity. If you put pressure on yourself to make this work it just wont end well. Youll have runs good and bad but that mindset bleeds into trading decisions. Trust me when i came into trading this was my mindset too.

This sheet you have posted highlights some of the negative things you were doing before. Yes its a from one filter but mate all these angles are far too much. There is no way your gonna be able to handle micro managing all this during a busy weekend when 3-4 matches are on at a time. Is there not some way you can look at your results and pinpoint the best performing scenarios? The reason you were error prone before is you were looking at too much, too many leagues, too many trades etc. Like in the above pic your trading kazakhstan league, you know what im trying to say here bud.

We all want you to come out of this in as good a position possible. You have been trying at this for years now mate and maybe its time to take a change of approach and try to think about less. We have all at some stage advised this to you. We arent saying it to trod on any morale we are saying it to help you because we want you and everyone else to do as well as possible. This game we play aint easy and anyone winning is a positive for us all. Please have a massive think about this before jumping straight back in. Id be happy to have a convo with you mate to come up with a good approach here, one that doesnt rely on inplay stats etc and just get this all a bit more streamlined. Im sure the BTC lads would be delighted to help also man just reach out before jumping in again please.

[Richard Latimer]

Another thing I no longer care about league selection. As long as the liquidity is there and it fits I'll play. What I've noticed since tracking all this data is that match scenario, pre-match odds and over/under odds for each half are way more important than what league a team is playing in.

I've had a couple from Guatemala which I'd always avoided. Decent odds and an easy win. Poland Division 2 had always given me problems. Not so on these so far. Bundesliga I found to be a nightmare and the same could be said for Italy Serie A. So far so good. When the match odds don't suggest a 0-0 is unlikely I'll leave it and a couple of 0-0's have been missed this way. Best trades so far for Bundesliga when the teams can't stop scoring and you enter late for yet another which invariably seems to come.

[Richard Latimer]

I worked out that I'm looking at ave lay odds of around 2.3 as well. So anywhere close to current strike rate keeps up and I'll be taking my £60.00 all the way to premium charge heaven in the blink of an eye haha!!

I'll aim to post potentials for the next day in here each night or sometimes the next morning. I won't be putting individual trades on the football thread as I simply don't have time and need to put all my concentration into making sure I make zero mistakes or close as damn it!

[Richard Latimer]

I'm ready to share where I'm up to with my trading following my recent car crash of a life. I'll need this to perform as it's shown in order to address my current financial shitshow following everything that's happened so feel free to point out any problems and areas where I can improve. Despite having over 300 selections from one filter (looking at many different angles) I am still only 4-5 months in and everything is still being tweaked and adjusted where necessary.

First off, the results:

These are the many scenerios I am looking at from my filter. Only when all the i's have been crossed and the t's have been dotted will I make a move. I don't care about the inplay stats (quite often they will pick up as soon as I get in when they're tripe. Gala today was awful but it fit and so I pulled the trigger in the 70th minute.)

When I say 2H2 scr that means I want 2 2nd half goals prior to entering. They must fit the required goal times though for each scenario.

[Matt Wood]

All the best mate, get yourself and things righted.

[Martin]

@richard-latimer hope it works itself out soon bud!

[Richard Latimer]

Got a lot of personal s**t to sort out so I'll be taking a break from posting and updating but I still need to update the sheet for myself and I'll keep udpating guidelines so everything will still be there if anyone is following.

[Richard Latimer]

Unable to post today nut it's all on the sheet along with guidelines of what I'm looking for. Will update later or tomorrow.

[Richard Latimer]

Also forgot to rule out the games with Home ave over 2.4 so that's Stuttgart II and Hearts gone for now as well. Will of course track.

[Richard Latimer]

Revised list following all my checks this morning, ruling out leagues just starting and teams where some of the results used are in stronger/weaker leagues:

Differently to a normal Saturday I am including the leagues that would normally have little liquidity. See what happens there.

I'm also stopping with the blanket wiping of all 3pm games as most Saturdays are just passing e by in a haze of nothingness of recent. That's not to say I'll go grazy but I want to start collecting the data without prejudice.

[Richard Latimer]

1/1 today. Off to bed now but going to try and get up early for Iwata which starts @ 5am. Bloody stupid times haha!

Will double check all these in the morning but Iwata seems good depending on odds and match scenario.

[Richard Latimer]

Couple of fixtures of interest today:

[Richard Latimer]

Good day 2/2 with Jihlava and Schalke II. First time I've used Regionalliga for a long time and also with my new strategy/filter. Worked well enough. I think it's something that will work when less football on but will prob not go inplay on busy Saturdays for the most part.

Tomorrow, absolutely nothing so I'll take this opportunity to update tomorrow and rest tonight.

[Richard Latimer]

@richard-latimer said in All Goals Are Equal But Some Goals Are More Equal Than Others:

Few more potentials for tomorrow:

Current guidelines on my sheet although not a massive amount has changed since I last posted them.

Sovetov I'm just watching on account of Home averages.

[Richard Latimer]

Few more potentials for tomorrow:

Current guidelines on my sheet although not a massive amount has changed since I last posted them.

[Richard Latimer]

Nothing doing today. Bored of this already haha!

[Richard Latimer]

@richard-latimer said in All Goals Are Equal But Some Goals Are More Equal Than Others:

A few possibles today although the one with 2.7 Home average is just one to watch:

Haven't been doing the Regionalliga games so far but with almost nothing else on I imagine liquidity will be better than normal. It's a good time to look at them anyway to see if results carry over.

Elversberg postponed anyway

[Richard Latimer]

A few possibles today although the one with 2.7 Home average is just one to watch:

Haven't been doing the Regionalliga games so far but with almost nothing else on I imagine liquidity will be better than normal. It's a good time to look at them anyway to see if results carry over.

[Richard Latimer]

Stupidly got involved in Aus although didn't post as it was just outsise what I wanted, Aside from that, nothing!

[Richard Latimer]

Went 4/6 today for a small green.

In future Furth would have been a trade and Zagreb, Montevideo would not. There are reasons to exclude and that's all I need. Aim is to collect as much data as possible so that the strategy/system improves over time and I'm left with the cream of the crop.

It's a moving target but the odds are way lower than my strike rate in terms of lay price and at present I'm earning while I learn which has always been the aim.

In the morning Melbourne City is a game of interest.

The rest can wait until later.