Aug 2024 £3000 - ? Bank Challenge

[Richard Latimer]

@daniel-cooper said in All Goals Are Equal But Some Goals Are More Equal Than Others:

@richard-latimer What are your long term trading goals?

I've been in the positive since joining BTC so my plan is to get to the point I was at when I very first invested (seems odd but I really screwed my bank pre-BTC) - at which point I have funds set aside to invest further when I've proven to myself everything is moving in the right direction.

I could just invest it now, but I'm trying to be strict with myself to get back to that original point so as to discourage over trading, chasing losses and FOMO

My long-term goal is to make a living from it and not just a living but a good living. I've put dribs and drabs in for ages now. Two reasons. 1) I can't afford more than that and 2) like you you I didn't feel comfortable doing it anyway. Goal has always been to grow organically. I think it's a lot easier to stake higher numbers when you've grown those numbers yourself over time.

I tend to think of it like the old adage of throwing a frog into boiling water and it just leaping out but if you heat the water up slowly around it by the time the frog realises it's too late.

No matter how much confidence I have in my strategy if I was to start throwing 10's, 20's, 50's at stuff I'd probably freak.

I'm hoping though that by the time I'm putting on 100's or more I'll be so used to putting down the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's that it will scarcely seem any different.

To think of going from 0-100 is way too scared even if you can afford it I think.

[Daniel Cooper]

@richard-latimer What are your long term trading goals?

I've been in the positive since joining BTC so my plan is to get to the point I was at when I very first invested (seems odd but I really screwed my bank pre-BTC) - at which point I have funds set aside to invest further when I've proven to myself everything is moving in the right direction.

I could just invest it now, but I'm trying to be strict with myself to get back to that original point so as to discourage over trading, chasing losses and FOMO

[Richard Latimer]

@daniel-cooper said in All Goals Are Equal But Some Goals Are More Equal Than Others:

Hi RIchard. New to the thread. Is this where you will be posting your daily lists now?

Yeah, it's easier as won't get lost. Any questions just ask.

[Daniel Cooper]

Hi RIchard. New to the thread. Is this where you will be posting your daily lists now?

[Richard Latimer]

Finally, home teams coming back from the dead (0-2 down):

Getting a bit boring as nothing ever seems to qualify anymore but until I have something better it's a nicely performing filter when things do actually qualify and it's also incredibly low risk.

[Richard Latimer]

H2 goals (only when there hasn't been any H2 goals already) from 60-75 mins in (a bit vague but it all depends on what gets matched. When these qualify I'll take the HT odds, halve them for first half of stake and then take a literal half of the odds (6.0 will become 3.0 for example) and lay that price for 2nd half of stake.

Also, if anyone is avoiding China on account of them being played at Neutral venues this no longer seems applicable for some reason. The last load I have looked at/traded have all been held at the correct venue.

[Richard Latimer]

Milestone today as stake for 1pt goes from £1.99 to £2.02. As I'm using a ratchet these stakes won't go down unless my bank falls from it's current level of £108.63 to £70.61.

For anything with odds over 3.5 and no higher than 7.4 I will be staking £1.21. If I go higher than this but no higher than 11.0 (highly unlikely) I will be staking 90p.

This is how I manage to take higher odds and still keep within where I want to be in terms of not overstaking.

ELO's:

[Richard Latimer]

Not updating now although I have updated my sheet. Going to bed in a minute but it was a good day made better by Flamengo.

Thu ELO's:

Thu Late Goals:

Odds have got to be right, score has got to be 0-0/1-1/0-1 at HT and needs to be some attacking threat on the pitch or signs of attacking intent on inplay stats/sofascore graph.

Titanic - Home teams coming back from 0-2 down:

[Richard Latimer]

Titanic:

Home teams coming back from 0-2.

[Richard Latimer]

Late goal potentials:

I've checked to make sure each team has played enough games this time.

[Richard Latimer]

Nothing from today other than the things I'm working on in the background. Tomorrows ELO selections for laying winning weaker team:

No data on SA yet so may take a very persuasive argument to get me involved there for the time being.

[Richard Latimer]

Titanic:

If Sochi go 0-2 down I will lay Kazan.

[Richard Latimer]

No potential 2nd half goals today

[Richard Latimer]

Todays ELO:

Mexico already happened and as everyone, including me, was tucked up in bed by then I saw no need to post it before bed. It's just there for completeness even though it was on the sheet before kickoff so if anybody had gone looking they would have fouund it.

I didn't used to track these games I couldn't get on but since I created a new sheet tracking new info I wanted to get them all down whether I was on them or not.

It also ties in with wanting to be able to come away if I'm green enough. Say I'm done for the day but still collect the data.

[Richard Latimer]

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

Late goals

Totally missed the fact that not enough games had been played for the first 2. Only 12 when I want much closer to 20.

[Richard Latimer]

Coming back from the dead (home only)

[Richard Latimer]

Late goals

[Richard Latimer]

ELO lays

[Richard Latimer]

Potential late goals:

[Richard Latimer]

Small red, moving on: