Introduce Yourself to the Community
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HI everyone, just a quick intro from myself.
Who you are? Shaun Sykes
Where you are from? Originally from the NE of England, but lived all over England and am currently pretty much nomadic, going where I like, when I like.
What stage are you at in your trading journey Just left the starting blocks!
What's your background? I worked in very high end Mayfair casinos for over 20 years and took redundancy during the lockdown.
Why did you join BTC? I have watched a fair few of Ryans vids recently and liked his style. Mainly though, I wanted access to the stats
What do you hope to get from the community? Guidance, knowledge and the comfort of knowing there are others at various points of the journey I am on.
What are some of your trading goals? Long term goal is financial independence, short term is to build a profitable strategy or two on my own.
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Essentially a mix of both. I have been trying (paper trading and some £1 stakes).
Strategy 1: Women's Tennis games -
Getting in before the game on the favourite, laying them and scalping the price during/after 1st set.Second strategy: Laying First Set Winner.
I like the idea of quick wins on tennis and would be my preferred method.
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@andrew-findlater I'd firstly say is that how you want to trade?
One of the things I always do with new and beginner traders is this try and get to a point where they are trading what they want and that works for them.If you want to scalp then great if not lets find something that works for you.
Are you talking scalping points on serve or before the match?
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@ryan I didn't think I had many questions? Well ones I wanted to ask before reading through the forums and the emails you send but I do have one. I have tried a bit of tennis scalping recently and have failed miserably but I really want to at least understand it. Is there any (easy to understand) info on here? I know you have a good video yourself around laying the first set winner but I am looking at in okay quick scalps. I have been told it's a good 2ay to learn for beginners.
Thanks
Andy -
Hi I’m andy 40 from the midlands. Just joined the community. I have been betting mainly on football but most things for 20+ years and Iosing mainly. Definitely on the whole. About 6 months ago I decided to distance myself from it all so reduced all my deposit limits etc and stepped away for some time out. In the past I had tried trading and am familar with Betfair. I think my problem always was cause I was still betting along side it one would always lose focus on trading due to betting loses. I’m now in a better position to relax and just purely trade only. I don’t have any real knowage of the trading softwares available and so will need to learn these as sounds great way to do it. Been listening to the podcasts and decided this community was the one to start my new future and journey with and help me achieve something I hope is possible.
Thanks in advance for all your help. Andy -
@andrew-findlater Welcome, I have a feeling you are going to do well here matey!
Firstly, I love the point you made about the not getting rich quick, most people don't want to get rich slow do they!
How can I best help you get started? Whats the Q's you have in your head right now?
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@mark-holmes I mean it is a big winner isn't it!
Just oh I have this idea would it work, oh yes it does now I have a strategy to use.
Only thing next is automation then its literally autopilot
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@ryan Hi Ryan, I love to find angles that are profitable and have been tracking systems manually for a while but it is time-consuming and you can only do it for so long. The fact that there is 13 months of data and hopefully more to come that can back test a strategy in under a minute really appealed.
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@mark-holmes Welcome! Not that far from me, I am in Lincoln!
What was it about the software that you could not resist?
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Hi, I'm Mark from Hull in Yorkshire. I was so curious about the horse racing software and strategy builder that I couldn't resist signing up and having a play with it. Hoping for some good results and some fun along the way.
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@david-hardwick Welcome to the group, how are you settling in?
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Hi. I'm a new member from Leeds/Bradford West Yorkshire. I've done mainly football trading before but i'd like to get in to Horse racing and tennis now too. So the new racing software was my reason for joining. Looking forward to getting started with it.
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@ryan maybe something along the lines of
- "How do you fit trading alongside your main profession?"
- "Do you ever feel you are missing out or limited by not trading full time? Or do you feel this forces you to be more efficient with your time?"
- "If you were free to dedicate 24 hours a day to trading, what would you do differently?"
I think a lot of my own concern is that you're not spending enough time doing something. We can study past data for hours and hours but at what point does that become a waste of time?
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@dan-mackinnon I can do this! I wonder what the Q is I need to ask non pro's to get what their trading day looks like?
want to get the most out of this.
