Introduce Yourself to the Community
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@babar-malik Welcome Babs, you are in a great place for learning here. No egos and everyone will try to help out if you have questions.
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Hi all!
I am Babs from East London. I work in the financial services industry. I have been matched betting for a while. If anyone has done matched betting in the past, they would know that opportunities thin out with time due to constant gubbing by the bookies. I have been interested in Betfair trading for a while but I didn't know where to start. I did a bit of research on my own, learned a few strategies, made a bit of money and then lost it all - a story similar to a lot of beginners I am sure.
The last few weeks I had been looking for a place or a community to join, suitable for beginners like me. A few days ago, I stumbled upon BTC and I really liked what I saw. No boasting, no sales pitch. Ryan and Martin came across to me as genuine chaps and it didn't take me long to make the decision to join.
My goals are simple. In the short term, I am looking to simply test and learn the strategies and improve my reading of stats and live gameplay. Once I have enough experience and confidence, only then I will increase my bank roll. I am excited to start my BTC journey and make some friends along the way.
Thanks
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@dan-mackinnon Hi Dan.
This was the filter you asked about.
Welcome to BTC, Fantastic place to learn here. Total beginner myself and learnt loads, although still not making my millions yet
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Hi everyone,
I'm Dan from South London. I'm relatively new to trading and really got into it by accident. As soon as I understood about time decay I started backing U2.5g market with reasonable success (as a Crystal Palace fan I'm used to lack of goals!) but would wipe out any profit whenever I ventured into other strategies.
I joined BTC to be part of a community of like-minded individuals who want to help one another. In terms of trading goals I would like to build up my confidence and work on skills that are transferable with my life (time management, handling stressful situations, etc.).
I come into this completely humble and ready to learn. I'm excited for the adventure and can't wait to see where this takes me.
Thanks,
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@mark-uren Does Bet Angel not handle the automation for you?
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@mark-uren said in Introduce Yourself to the Community:
I'm a go to Google person, so typed in profitable football trades.
So have been doing the Clint, Aristotle and Socrates trades.
Have been having success with them.
The BTC database is great for finding these types of selections, coming from betting its a bet and forget mindset.
With Trading its a different matter with more time needed.
Saw Martins video about testing strats first and having time, we all have time but its precious.
The goal in the next 90 days is to automate the selections and automate trades dependant on events.
That way it is a bet, trade forget mindset. Move on to the next. But automated.
Need to decide on the right betting platform to do this.Brilliant, what markets and strategies are they? Good to hear the software makes finding the selections a breeze!
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I'm a go to Google person, so typed in profitable football trades.
So have been doing the Clint, Aristotle and Socrates trades.
Have been having success with them.
The BTC database is great for finding these types of selections, coming from betting its a bet and forget mindset.
With Trading its a different matter with more time needed.
Saw Martins video about testing strats first and having time, we all have time but its precious.
The goal in the next 90 days is to automate the selections and automate trades dependant on events.
That way it is a bet, trade forget mindset. Move on to the next. But automated.
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@mark-uren Welcome!
Great to have you here, similar story to a lot of people as well. Which types of trades have you been doing on the football?
Is there anything you want to achieve in the next 90 days?
Good shout on the automation - takes the emotion out of it.
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Hi All, I'm Mark from Gloucester
Just recently joined as i'm bored stiff being on furlough and need something to stimulate the mind.
Being betting 30+ years on and off, Normally horse racing and have tried lots of tipsters/services in the past. Some had good results, others not. Had good results with Golf betting for a year or so but long term too many loss's.
Need to get betting out of the head now and think of Trading, taking profit while its there and walk away.
Been doing a few Football trades recently and found this site, like the idea that you have a database which can be searched as this free's up a lot of time.
I hope to keep thinking like a trader and not try to make bets fit because they are really close to the criteria, stick to the filters and reap the rewards. I hope to learn from other traders on the forum and be more sucessful.
I am currently using Betangel Pro to place bets green up etc, may change but will still too a similar platform as i like to automate where possible.
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@james-everard said in Introduce Yourself to the Community:
@daniel-helps-0 Welcome back Dan . I am also from Essex and support Arsenal
Great place to be this full of people who are wanting to learn and help each other good luck mateCheers James, nice to see another gooner, especially one from Essex!
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@daniel-helps-0 Welcome back Dan . I am also from Essex and support Arsenal
Great place to be this full of people who are wanting to learn and help each other good luck mate -
@ryan-carruthers I prefer white, only red if it's not too heavy!
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@daniel-helps-0 Welcome back
Great to have you back on board! I am also a fan of beer and gin, also partial to a bottle of red!
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@keith-anderson Ha!! Thanks Kieth
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@daniel-helps-0 said in Introduce Yourself to the Community:
New Member - Dan from Essex.
Hi everyone, I'm Dan and I'm a sort of new member! By that I mean, I've rejoined. I was a member previously but then had to cancel when I was working abroad in a country where I couldn't access Betfair! When I returned it took me time to get back into trading - listening again to the BTC podcasts reminded me how great BTC is so I rejoined.
I'm from Essex, lived her all my life and support Arsenal. Like many is started trading after doing matched betting, I never really liked MB'ing as it was always a lot of work for small returns. Trading was the natural progression for me. Before I stopped I was doing ok in my trading, averaging 2-3 points per day, mostly taking O1.5 and U3.5 goals.
Before I joined BTC the first time I had lost quite a lot trying to trade LTD after following various 'experts' on YouTube who loved to show green screens of £1000's.... stupidly I thought 'that looks easy' - it wasn't! I then wasted money on other memberships that didn't help, they were also just full of people showing green screens but who were more interested in themselves than helping others - BTC is the complete opposite.
Last time I enjoyed the forum and the community on BTC, it's a great place, some of the chat isn't even about trading which is a nice change.
I hope to increase my trading to a level where my second income is on a level with my main income from the day job. I also just want to get chatting and be active in the forum, I've been working from home for nearly a year now and it's so frustrating (although I do have the wife to talk to!).
I'd also like to try and learn trading in other sports, such as tennis and maybe horses, but I'm not too sure on that!
Apart from trading my other interests are beer and gin
!!!Dan
Welcome back, Mr Helps!
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New Member - Dan from Essex.
Hi everyone, I'm Dan and I'm a sort of new member! By that I mean, I've rejoined. I was a member previously but then had to cancel when I was working abroad in a country where I couldn't access Betfair! When I returned it took me time to get back into trading - listening again to the BTC podcasts reminded me how great BTC is so I rejoined.
I'm from Essex, lived her all my life and support Arsenal. Like many is started trading after doing matched betting, I never really liked MB'ing as it was always a lot of work for small returns. Trading was the natural progression for me. Before I stopped I was doing ok in my trading, averaging 2-3 points per day, mostly taking O1.5 and U3.5 goals.
Before I joined BTC the first time I had lost quite a lot trying to trade LTD after following various 'experts' on YouTube who loved to show green screens of £1000's.... stupidly I thought 'that looks easy' - it wasn't! I then wasted money on other memberships that didn't help, they were also just full of people showing green screens but who were more interested in themselves than helping others - BTC is the complete opposite.
Last time I enjoyed the forum and the community on BTC, it's a great place, some of the chat isn't even about trading which is a nice change.
I hope to increase my trading to a level where my second income is on a level with my main income from the day job. I also just want to get chatting and be active in the forum, I've been working from home for nearly a year now and it's so frustrating (although I do have the wife to talk to!).
I'd also like to try and learn trading in other sports, such as tennis and maybe horses, but I'm not too sure on that!
Apart from trading my other interests are beer and gin
!!!Dan
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@gareth-lodwig thank you for the honesty, I think we've all had those feelings at some point when we've been on this path - so you are not alone, its now about building up to understanding these and how they impact you then moving forward.
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@ryan-carruthers I think it been more recently probably for many reasons.
Desperate to be profitable overall & successful
Fed up of loosing overall ( probably because not having structure to everything i do when trading . staking, match selection, in & out of different strategies etc.
frightened and trying to protect my bank to the point missing out on winning trades because im doubting myself all the time now. -
@gareth-lodwig Welcome to the group, great to have you here!
Do you think the you get uptight about it because when you flutter its more fun? This is more controlled fun?
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@gareth-lodwig welcome!
this may help, wrote it this week about potential stumbling blocks: https://betfairtradingcommunity.com/en/blog/betfair-trading-what-holding-you-back
