Introduce Yourself to the Community
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@james-everard welcome! yes we email out some potentially good football trades. in my experience of people who come from a betting background the biggest struggle they have is learning to evaluate and constantly check their trades in play. in general, they tend to punt more and let things run too long. my main advice would be to make sure you track your trades live to make sure what you thought would happen is happening, and if it isn't get out of the trade.
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hi
New member here signed up yesterday. My names James from Chelmsford. I have come from a betting background and joined Betfair approx. 6 months ago. Have had enough of losing all my money and want to get serious and cut out the mistakes I keep on making probably from my betting background. I have watched lots of videos on utube and I am starting to understand trading a bit by bit. Any assistance or tips would be highly recommended. Do you email a daily list of potential tips daily or do you have to look up on the trading community ?
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Who you are? - Chris
Where you are from? Stourbridge. West Midlands.
What stage are you at in your trading journey - Early days Rookie Trader currently, I have joined to learn how the markets work.
What's your background? -Started of with a 12 year military background before leaving and starting my own company, have since worked on many projects focused on telecommunications and automation systems in different sectors such as Utilities, Oil and gas and Transport. No particular background in betting.
Why did you join BTC? - A combination of always being sport mad from a early age, both playing, watching and having a flutter now and then and from listening to the BTC podcasts while on my travels with work. Interested to explore what trading could bring me as a little side earner but want to start off on the right tracks. I have a small bank I have set aside to learn with.
What are some of your trading goals? - As I have limited time to invest currently I have a goal of a 18-24 month window to try and understand/read the markets and there behavior better to then invest effort and time in automation strategies and also streamlining researching methods. I intend to focus on Horse Racing, football and also explore the Cycling markets during the season. -
Who you are? Neil
Where you are from? Surrey
What stage are you at in your trading journey? Early
What's your background? Long term interest & betting on loads sports inc Football Horses NFL Tennis Darts
Why did you join BTC? To stop losing money betting and to trade!
What do you hope to get from the community? Help & advice on strategies
What are some of your trading goals? To learn and improve some of the things I do already and improve considerably with new trading ideas and techniques.
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Who you are? - Mark
Where you are from? - Stevenage
What stage are you at in your trading journey - I'd say novice. Using some strategies, but trying to hone in on 1 or 2 to focus on. Always on Football. But i'm also keen to have a crack at Tennis
What's your background? - Long time punter on various sports, including Football, NFL and Tennis
Why did you join BTC? - To learn as much as possible, improve discipline and long term, I'd love to make a 2nd income from trading.
What do you hope to get from the community? - Support and experience from pro-traders. Looking to be steered in the right direction
What are some of your trading goals? - A 2nd income is an extremely long way off, but I'd love to make it a reality.
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@jamie-glynn
Great to see you here Jamie!!! I am sure you will learn a lot here.
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@stuart-rozzier
Hi Stuart,
Welcome!! Great to have you here, thank you for commenting on this thread too. I am here if you need anything!
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Who you are? – Jamie
Where you are from? – Surrey
What stage are you at in your trading journey – Right at the very start!
What's your background? – I work at The All England Club in Wimbledon as senior mechanic, looking after all of their groundscare machinery
Why did you join BTC? – It seemed like the best place to learn and get guidance after feeling a bit lost!
What do you hope to get from the community? – I hope to gain some valuable knowledge and education in my early days of trading, as well as utilising the tools within the site.
What are some of your trading goals? – For me, as a complete beginner it would have to be to work on my mental approach as I struggle with the losses and find it hard to not feel as if the markets are always against you!
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hi all im stuart from birmingham
ive been tinkering with trading for a few years now but want to tighten down and make it pay.
im a single dad of four and now the kids are teenagers I can grab a bit more time to myself in between arguments and forking out money.
Ive been watching youtube vids from BTC for a while now and liked the look of how the stats work.
I want to tighten down a portfolio of strategies to tick along and grow my bank.....one day be able to take an extra income out. even just for treats! -
Who you are? Kanna
Where you are from? Surrey
What stage are you at in your trading journey? Starting my journey to being a full time tradder
What's your background? Investment Banking
Why did you join BTC? I tried to grab data from elsewhere daily found that time consuming and BTC will be able to provide the stats quicker.
What do you hope to get from the community? meet like-minded traders to bounce ideas off, as being in the study alone is rather boring
What are some of your trading goals? to make daily profit enough to compensate for leaving work. -
Who you are? - Nathan
Where you are from? - Perth Australia originally from New Zealand
What stage are you at in your trading journey - About a year into trading probably had too good of a start came crashing down , joining the community has been great for mentality
What's your background? - Years of experience in retail. Betting horses for years fulltime for last 5
Why did you join BTC? - To gain more knowledge and angles into other sports
What do you hope to get from the community? - To learn from others on there approach to trades
What are some of your trading goals? - To be 100% disciplined and to always have a plan prior , progress as a trader and grow profits
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Hi All, just thought I would inroduce myself.
Who you are? – Leon
Where you are from? – Liverpool (The blue side though, I support Everton)
What stage are you at in your trading journey – I'm still at the early stages, I've used Betfair for over 10 years, mainly for gambling most recently BTTS betting but I always dipped in and out of laying and even trading but with no real game plan.
What's your background? – Accountancy
Why did you join BTC? – I would like to learn various trading techniques and decided to start testing the detailed football statistics to hopefully give me an edge.
What do you hope to get from the community? – I'm interested in what techniques other traders are using and how they interpret the statistics to make a profit. It will be nice to discuss how other members approach trades and learn as much as I can from them.
What are some of your trading goals? – I would love to do this as my main source of income but I know I'm still at the early stages of learning so my initial target will be £20-£50 profit per football match I trade. I'm also looking to learn scalping. I'm currently testing Geeks toy software so to become fluent with that would be great.
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Who you are?
Jokerman, 29 years old from sweden.What stage are you at in your trading journey
Been trading tennis fulltime since 2010. Love it. Got a office two years ago, couldnt handle the loneliness from working at home haha. Met a couple programers at the office, so we develop a tennis bot. Going really well, marketfeeder is a awesome software. Heres our results. Not trying to sell this or something haha. i can tell you the strategy behind it. it so simle, cant belive it working.
http://www.spreadsheet.se/671119Why did you join BTC?
The tennis seasons is soon over, so im resarching strategies for horse racing and soccer.Sorry for bad english.
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Should really answer some of these myself!
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Who you are?
-Adam -
Where you are from?
-A lovely part of the world called Newport in South Wales originally, now based in Milton Keynes -
What stage are you at in your trading journey
-Trading professionally since 2009 when I taught myself to program specifically to write bots for Betfair. Mostly horses and football. Like many people I've also done quite a bit of matched betting over the years. -
What's your background?
-10 years in IT providing consultancy to call centres in the UK and Europe. I also own a serviced accommodation business in MK -
Why did you join BTC?
-Because no-one else in my circle of friends trades or even understands what trading is and I was sick of talking to myself all day! -
What do you hope to get from the community?
-To be able to share the tools that have helped my trading over the years and help other traders succeed -
What are some of your trading goals?
-Usually my aim is to fully automate any trading I do, so I can actually spend time with my family
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- Ben Jolley
- Cambridge
- Tried correct score trading years ago but with no real knowledge and as you can guest i lost money. Now back taking it serious for the last 2 months.
- I was training to be an accountant but during the training i had kids and went through a break up and was made redundant. So went to be a postman which i loved and still do and kind of lost interest with the accounting world.
- I joined btc because it seemed the best product out there with the stats software etc.
- I have already taken in so much information from the forum etc it has already changed the way I thought about trading. All for the good.
- Trading Goals: I come from a matched betting background and have done really well from it and still do but losing most of my accounts have been a real problem. If i can earn up to £100 per week from trading football I would be on cloud 9. I would also like to look at the horses and tennis but really want to crack this football trading first. Any help at all will be much appreciated. I currently have 2 over 2.5 goals filters that I am testing. And am also testing keiths LTD at half time which is going quite well.
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Good idea this thread as I never did this when I first joined.
Who you are? – David
Where you are from? – Liverpool but now live in London
What stage are you at in your trading journey – I joined BTC around a year ago with no previous experience, mainly trading football and utilising the stats software. Not at a point where I am consistently making money but I’m not losing either and definitely feel like I am learning.
What's your background? – moved to London after uni and qualified as a chartered surveyor working in commercial property management. Liverpool fan and still have season tickets so venture back up for as many games as I can and to see the family.
Why did you join BTC? – I was initially drawn to the stats software which seemed far more comprehensive and intuitive than others I had tried, particularly the ability to setup and save your own filters. I didn’t really get into the facebook group and was delighted when it moved over to this forum as I find it a lot easier to follow and far more structured.
What do you hope to get from the community? – to effectively learn a skill that will hopefully allow me to make a bit of extra money watching and researching sports I already enjoy. To learn from others and share anything that may be of value if and when I get there!
What are some of your trading goals? – I would love to get to a point where I am making a decent second income. I use Bet Angel pro and try to use automation where I can but I’m not knowledgeable enough to set up anything particularly complex. Still dive into trades when I know I shouldn’t so that needs to be eradicated quickly!
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As of today this thread will be used as the intro thread for everyone who wants to tell the community a little about themselves! So I will kick it off.
Who you are? - Martin
Where you are from? Norwich but now living in Wigan!
What stage are you at in your trading journey - Pro trader for 5+ years now, had been trading on and off since I was 16 so it took a while to get there! I trade Football and Cricket mainly with a touch of tennis and NFL for good measure.
What's your background? - I have worked in a lot of jobs none for very long! Including - Warehouse Worker, Youth Worker, Employment advisor and an IT assistant at a college.
Why did you join BTC? - Trading is a lonely profession, I wanted more info on trading and also a place to chat to other traders who were as serious about trading as myself!
What do you hope to get from the community? - Continued support, interaction and profits!
What are some of your trading goals? - I would like to venture further into scalping and other sports.
