Introduce Yourself to the Community
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Thank you @dan-mackinnon.
Yes, Football is a big thing here in West Germany. I'm a fervent Schalke 04 fan myself (believe me, it wasn't easy in the last few years!). My apartment is about 1 kilometer from the veltins arena.
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@marcel-preuß Welcome Marcel. I've wanted to visit that part of Germany and do a big football tour. I was in Koln in 2020 and was intending to go see them but it was the weekend everything in Germany went into lockdown.
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Hi, everyone,
i'm marcel, a 42 year old online retailer and sports betting enthusiast from Gelsenkirchen in Germany.
At the beginning of my "sports betting career" i tried the craziest things like martingale systems and so on (fortunately mostly only paper trading!)...
Later sure bets and matched betting were added, which got on my nerves pretty quickly or was no longer possible. So i delved deeper in Sportsbetting and at some point i understood that the most important thing in betting is the odds and whether there is value in it or not. So i put together the strangest models to find value odds. i spent a lot of time with it and i had good days but at least as many bad days. I remember that rollercoaster of emotions very well! One day i felt like the king and the next day i wanted to give up all that s**t because i lost the winnings from the day before and more. Summarized i kept coming back to around +/- 0 and this has caused losing confidence in my skills!
Also, time management hasn't always been easy for me because I've worked as a chef for many years, which means I mostly had to work when the big leagues were on.
That's why i took care of my family and my work for the next 2 years or so and put Sports betting aside and that was a good thing at that point.
But now I want to make a complete fresh start and that's why I'm very happy to be a small part of BTC
So at this point I would like to apologize for my ramblings and my bad English.
Have a nice day and a nice advent season
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@keith-anderson Thanks for the welcome! I have been guilty in the past of scatter gun trading, in attempts to bulk up my trades each day if opportunities are thin on the ground!! Now I am trying to focus on Football (Laying Away Teams, BTTS and O2.5s are some of my preferred) and having used some other resources have become reasonably proficient at Laying Greyhounds.
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@taff-phillips said in Introduce Yourself to the Community:
Good Morning BTC, this is my first day and first post in the Forum. My name is Taff, or at least that's what everyone has called me for the last 20 odd years as a Welshman living in England.
So, as I said originally from Wales (Swansea) but moved from there when I was 17 and since then have moved around a lot. I am now settled down in West Sussex with my family.
I have dipped in and out of Trading for about a year or two. I have done a lot of procrastination with regards to getting fully onboard with trading. I have watched, read, listened to practically every video, book, podcast etc there is on methods, strategies, tracking....
I have had varying success for the short periods I have focused on trading but have now come to a period where I would like to try and make trading a full time endeavour by Summer 2023. Why that period? Its when my current work contract ends and by then I feel I will be ready for something different.
I spent a full career in the Royal Navy as an Aircraft Engineer, later on swapping my overalls and spanners for roles in Policy, Project Management and Training. Shortly before leaving I also completed an MBA and Level 5 Financial Trading Qualification in preparation for life outside the military. Neither of which I have actually used in the workplace as I moved straight in to lecturing Maths and Electrical Engineering Science. That coupled with my love of a spreadsheet, yes, I am like full blown nerd!
I joined the BTC after speaking to Ryan through Twitter as I wanted to engage with a group of like minded people who maybe shared similar goals. I know from my time in training roles and now as a lecturer how important experience of others can help the development of someone. I am always willing and eager to learn, and hopefully with time might be able to offer something back to others. Allied to this I was looking for access to the BTC Software as I would really like to improve my ability to build and back test profitable systems.
To sum up, I'm here to learn, share and hopefully develop as a Trader with the eventual aim of using the knowledge to generate a regular income stream.
Wishing everyone the best of luck with their trades and looking forward to engaging with some of you along this journey.
Taff
Welcome! What sports do you trade? I just trade football. Over 1.5 goals, LTD & SHG
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Good Morning BTC, this is my first day and first post in the Forum. My name is Taff, or at least that's what everyone has called me for the last 20 odd years as a Welshman living in England.
So, as I said originally from Wales (Swansea) but moved from there when I was 17 and since then have moved around a lot. I am now settled down in West Sussex with my family.
I have dipped in and out of Trading for about a year or two. I have done a lot of procrastination with regards to getting fully onboard with trading. I have watched, read, listened to practically every video, book, podcast etc there is on methods, strategies, tracking....
I have had varying success for the short periods I have focused on trading but have now come to a period where I would like to try and make trading a full time endeavour by Summer 2023. Why that period? Its when my current work contract ends and by then I feel I will be ready for something different.
I spent a full career in the Royal Navy as an Aircraft Engineer, later on swapping my overalls and spanners for roles in Policy, Project Management and Training. Shortly before leaving I also completed an MBA and Level 5 Financial Trading Qualification in preparation for life outside the military. Neither of which I have actually used in the workplace as I moved straight in to lecturing Maths and Electrical Engineering Science. That coupled with my love of a spreadsheet, yes, I am like full blown nerd!
I joined the BTC after speaking to Ryan through Twitter as I wanted to engage with a group of like minded people who maybe shared similar goals. I know from my time in training roles and now as a lecturer how important experience of others can help the development of someone. I am always willing and eager to learn, and hopefully with time might be able to offer something back to others. Allied to this I was looking for access to the BTC Software as I would really like to improve my ability to build and back test profitable systems.
To sum up, I'm here to learn, share and hopefully develop as a Trader with the eventual aim of using the knowledge to generate a regular income stream.
Wishing everyone the best of luck with their trades and looking forward to engaging with some of you along this journey.
Taff
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@richard-kedie Top man. those videos are really helping people get started. Did you find them useful?
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@ryan Thank you Ryan. No questions at the moment. Just finished the 3 step videos and I'm just getting a feel for the stats software, which is amazing btw.
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Hi my name's Richard and I live in Salisbury.
I started trading Football about 8 months ago, but results been very up and down. I was a matched bettor for a year or so and trading seems the next logical step.I've joined BTC because I want to get serious about trading and become profitable.
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Hi!
My name's Stephen and I'm from Nottingham
I'm right at the very start of my trading journey. I've only placed about 3 or 4 trades, and most of them lost (which I think is probably a good thing at this stage, because it's made me quite cautious and sensible)I've come here from matched betting with Profit Accumulator/Outplayed. I'm very slow with that, and didn't really like it very much.
I worked out yesterday I made around £8 per day matched betting, and I watched Ryan's YT video about making £10 a day, so it made sense to be hereI've joined BTC because the YouTube videos Ryan & Martin make are so friendly and welcoming and fun, I kinda felt like I might fit in here
I hope to contribute to the community once I'm up to speed with my trading knowledge
For now, my only trading goal is to make around £10-20 a day - honestly, that will do me just fine!! -
Hi everyone my name is Geoff
I live in Stafford, but really from Yorkshire
I have been experimenting with trading for a couple of months
I currently work as a picker, but looking forward to retirement within 4 years, I need to supplement my income and hopefully be in a position to retire a couple of years earlier.
I have joined BTC, to help with strategies and ideas for picking appropriate games to trade
I need to become a better trader, having looked at various sites, I feel this could well be the best place to achieve this -
@mark-reynolds Welcome! Great to have you here, looking forward to getting you firing on this and get you smashing Betfair
Bookies do gub ya, horrible that! Least we have Betfair!
Have you started checking the videos out? They are here if you haven't https://forum.betfairtradingcommunity.com/category/10/new-members-start-here
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Hi Everyone, Im new to the Community and thought id introduce myself.
Who you are? Mark
Where you are from? A small town on the outskirts of Belfast in Northern Ireland.
What stage are you at in your trading journey? I have dabbled before in a few systems and strategies but never made anything worth talking about. I done matched betting for a year or two and done well, I have also used many tipsters which didn't do so well.
What's your background? I work in IT
Why did you join BTC? I see trading as the only real way to make money gambling when its done right, bookmakers gub you if you are in anyway successful.
What do you hope to get from the community? To learn as much as possible about successful trading, Meet like minded people and to make some profit would be nice also :).
What are some of your trading goals? Bank management, decision making and to make profit.
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Ohhhh you are my kinda guy @karl-pick!!!
Need a few more like you
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I have watched all the videos and steps....time is one thing I have plenty of!
Two weeks into Lay the Draw strategy which seems to be pretty good with small stakes and adding new criteria to fine tune.
So study, testing and learning is what I am currently focused on...small steps.
Finding the opportunity to use the software is fascinating there is so much it can do, everyday is a school day! -
@karl-pick Welcome to the group matey!
You aren't that far from me, I in Lincoln!
Great to have you here, I've started pushing everybody to this section: https://forum.betfairtradingcommunity.com/category/10/new-members-start-here
It's the best place to start!
