Introduce Yourself to the Community
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@alan-steward 10 points profit a month is all you need. £20000 bank and you're laughing. I think your skills we be very much welcome here sir. You can probably make that 20 points following some of the pros here. I.E Keiths football selections and Martins horse selections. Good luck on your journey
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Who you are? - Alan
Where you are from? - Norwich but now living in Weymouth on the sunny South Coast
What stage are you at in your trading journey - I have been trading now for around 2 years and towards the end of the last season of winter leagues I was making around 10pts profit a month, I have struggled with the summer leagues (2019) but will be hoping to take my skills to the next level with the help of the Betfair Trading Community.
What's your background? - Engineering and now Estimating & Business Development within Engineering/Fabrication
Why did you join BTC? - To enhance my trading skills and move onto consistent profits.
What do you hope to get from the community? - Extend my knowledge base within Football Trading and learn a new Sport to trade in the summer months.
What are some of your trading goals? - To consistently make 10pts profit every month.
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@andrew-pickaver Great to see you here, I also joined recently and it's been excellent for learning so far. Good luck with it all!
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Who you are? - Andrew
Where you are from? - Leicester
What stage are you at in your trading journey - very new to trading but am familiar with how Betfair/backing/laying works
What's your background? - 10 years in digital marketing, now work in SAAS
Why did you join BTC? - want to learn how to trade and this seems to be the best platform out there
What do you hope to get from the community? Help and support whilst I'm learning and hopefully be able to give back one day!
What are some of your trading goals? Not run before I can walk, make some steady extra money if possible and learn the correct way -
@martin-futter Thanks Martin, a useful article. I kind of realised this as I saw the red drift into the hundreds!! I'm only trading with very small stakes until I'm really confident with a strategy now and even then building up slowly.
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@jim_saywer welcome Jim good to have you here, some essential reading for you (if you follow my advice you will never lose 50% of your bankroll on one trade!) https://betfairtradingcommunity.com/en/blog/bankroll-and-bet-staking
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Hi all,
I joined a few weeks ago and wanted to introduce myself. I've looking at trading for a about 6 months after a working through match betting offers. Before then I'd never been into a bookies or even placed a bet so completely green to it all.I've mainly been trading tennis and after losing half my bank on Williams v Halep at Wimbledon (how did Williams not get a single break??) I've been reassessing my approach. I'm tending toward focusing more on automation rather then live trading as it seems to fit better with my intended life style with 2 young kids.
I'd like to develop some solid startegies with the help of BTC to generate a second income at take the pressure off from having to work for the man (Aerospace Engineering).
Cheers,
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Thanks all. Norwich City? Is that a rugby team Martin?
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@gary-haigh Cheers, hope it's going well!
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@steven-grzywacz welcome mate.
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@martin-futter Cheerz ol bean!
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@steven-grzywacz great to have you here! will look forward to following your journey.
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@david-crisp Hi David, great to see some more new people like myself here, good luck with everything!
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Who you are? Ben, car salesman that started with match betting and now looking to progress into trading.
Where you are from? Leicester, UK.
What stage are you at in your trading journey: Early doors. Currently done 43 LTD games, off my own back using best judgment and currently up £222, would have been £400+ if it wasn't for a few pesky results.
What's your background? Love sports. Got into matched betting and used it as a high interested bank account, now want to earn more for my time inputted
Why did you join BTC? Seemed like the best community
What do you hope to get from the community? Knowledge from the members and good picks
What are some of your trading goals? 20-30k a year profit would be niceQuick question if you don't mind, on the statistics picker, when using members filters it obviously comes up with all the selections that fit the criteria, I've never entered a trade without the market being above 25k traded. If I set the filter to only show above 25k it barely shows any games. What's the general rules for money traded in the market?
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Good Day All
I'm David and new here, (two weeks or so).
Live in Norfolk, not far from Norwich.
I work part time in the construction industry and am working on something internet retail based as I gear down to retirement.
Have been trading and betting on and off for many years. Haven't lost or gained anything much except experience and a fair bit of knowledge of what not to do and what (sometimes) works for me.
Had a bit of success scalping horses but often failed on discipline and found it too frantic. Also with the Betfair outages getting more common (it seems anyway) I seem to have been on the wrong side of many more than right.
This site looks mainly focused on football, which I know very little about.
For my own part I am looking to lay horses, which as I've spent most time on and feel learning a whole new sport (football or tennis) may be a bridge too far having not completely mastered the horses after so many years.