Introduce Yourself to the Community
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Who you are? Matthew
Where you are from? Live in York, but originally from Gloucestershire
What stage are you at in your trading journey? I've made several attempts to crack the sports trading 'code' over the years, but tend to get overwhelmed with it all and lose focus. Determined to start at the beginning again, and take my time and really understand what's required to make a success of it.
What's your background? Been self-employed almost all my working life, currently running a cleaning company.
Why did you join BTC? Disillusioned by a competitor site's negative tone, I find the BTC guys' to be a breath of fresh air.
What do you hope to get from the community? I hope to learn from the experienced traders who are making a consistent profit.
What are some of your trading goals? At this stage, simply to make consistent gains month on month and then see where it takes me.
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@martin-futter Got it !! Thank you for replying !
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@martin-futter Got it & thanks for the chart. But which way round is it....if stats look like there is an 80% chance of something happening, what are value odds? 80% = 1.25 so am i looking for odds above 1.25 (like 1.5) or below (like 1.15).?
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@neil-houselander welcome! look forward to seeing you on the threads.
This chart will help you with relating decimal odds to percentages for value purposes: http://www.isfa.com/odds-probability-chart.php
The filters aren't representative of prediction percentages, they are showing what happened in the past 5/10/20 games from the home team at home or away team away. We use that to make predictions and test strategies. It is not to say that if a team has had 80% over 2.5 goals in their past 5 games that they have 80% chance of over 2.5 goals in their next match.
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Hi I'm Neil.
Where you are from? Bristol
What stage are you at in your trading journey:
Started matched betting last April, made a bit of cash, then got gubbed by everyone ! Have been trading since November (very lightly) am up about £300 but in all honesty I had 1 lucky week which made be £400, so exclude that and 2.5 months of work for £100 made me realise I needed some help!
What's your background?
Full time Banking & finance (not trading). Married with grown up daughter.Why did you join BTC?
See above - get some better strategies & a better mindset and make some cash.What do you hope to get from the community?
Advice, answers to questions that dont seem to come up on google !What are some of your trading goals?
Simple goal to make £500 per month trading 1 week night & 1 Saturday/Sunday a week. Rest is family time.I have an initial question that I can't figure out - around value... so I get the concept of how odds translate to probability e.g. the market has priced something at 2.0 so believes there is a 50% chance of it happening, if priced at 3.0 then 33% and 1.5 is 66% etc etc. But am I looking for with finding value trades? If i run a filter that says something has a 70% chance of happening then what am I looking for? Odds of 1.42 or higher? Or lower? Cannot get my head around it.
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@karl-goulding Welcome to the group, love your image in the display on the forum.
Great to have you hear buddy, let me know if you need anything.
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Your words are encouraging James. Thanks for your support and I hope you're productive now and this coming year when finding good trades.
I have only just scraped the surface of the video and blog content and there is so much useful stuff to learn.
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@karl-goulding Hi Karl. Sounds like some similar mistakes to me mate. Best thing I did was lower my stakes when I joined and watched countless hours of the educational videos. Enough of it has sunk in that I don't find myself chasing anymore and am happy to just cop a loss. Still plenty to learn though!
Good luck!
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I am Karl,
I am from a town called Worksop in North Nottinghamshire on the Northern edge of Sherwood forest.I started Matched Betting and moved to trading nearly 10 months ago.
I tend to trade four major sports; Football, Cricket, Darts and Men's Tennis and I've traded on Matchbook and Betfair before using the Geek's Toy.
However I made the same errors over and over which I hope to address and eradicate.
I have traded on my own and even though I did have moderate success, I failed over time after over-trading or just forgetting about the rules altogether and not keeping my stakes low enough and then blew my bank. I'd have some good plans and would get sidetracked sometimes.
This is the first day of my BTC subscription and I have learnt lots so far looking at Ryan's newbie stuff which has given me a blank slate and a new direction.
My goals are the same as James' who posted before me and I hope to mix with other BTC members, maybe I'll make a go of this yet.
Karlos
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Hello @james
Welcome to group, it will be great having you around the place.
If you need anything let me know
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Hi to all the BTC members! My name is James and I signed up a couple of months ago and thought it is about time to become a bit more active now I have sort of figured out how the site works.
- James (prefer Jimmy but not fussed either way)
- I reside in Australia in a small town just outside Melbourne
- I tried my hand at trading 3-4 years ago but basically ended up doing what a lot of people do which is chase. Definitely still a novice.
- I am a self employed electrician by trade and my punting background has always been on horses. I have always been a football enthusiast though so am looking to try my hand here instead.
- I joined BTC as trading has always interested me because by nature I am happier accruing smaller (and importantly) consistent profits and compounding a bank. I definitely am lacking in several areas and I hope being a member can help with that.
- From the community I am hoping to get help with the processes in selecting and implementing strategies. I still feel all over the shop nailing down and implementing processes.
- My trading goal long term (like most of us) would be to earn a consistent living from trading. In the short term my trading goal is not to make millions but to try and figure out how to consistently make the correct decisions pre match and in game.
My other trading goal is to try find a couple of systems I can automate as due to the time difference I miss most of the early afternoon (European) games.
Well happy to be here and onwards and upwards!
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@lefteris-exakoustidis Welcome to the group
great to have you here buddy! -
- I am Lefteris Exakoustidis (or Lefty as they used to call me when I was working at Ladbrokes, Malvern Link )
*Now back to my home country again (Greece) and although I ve been an Accountant for approximately 15 years I like whatever has to do with sports. I used to gamble a lot in the past.
Now I have created a "serious" bankroll, at least for a start and I am in between of starting
Surebetting and sports trading.I found your site very interesting and informative and that's why I subscribed for 24 hours firstly
and then for one month to have a broader understanding of sports trading (I am totally new) - I am Lefteris Exakoustidis (or Lefty as they used to call me when I was working at Ladbrokes, Malvern Link
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Thank you. I am really enjoying it.
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@steven-grzywacz Thanks for the welcome. See you around Steven and good luck to you.
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Great to see you here Craig, you seem like a good laugh! I'm learning from scratch too, good luck with it all.
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@ryan-carruthers
Who you are?
Craig Mull
Where you are from?
An inbred town in the North West
What stage are you at in your trading journey?
The absolute beginning with football. I have done pre race horses with no success and i also wasn't enjoying the process.
What's your background?
Electronics. Also, i have been match betting for over 18 months
Why did you join BTC?
I had previously done some football research and i wasn't getting the information i needed. I joined last week and ended up signing for the annual package within days. I love it! I fell out of love with football but i actually enjoying watching some really obscure teams around the world now.
What do you hope to get from the community?
Support, information and banter. I suppose i will be at the brunt of it (Bolton fan)
What are some of your trading goals?
Just learning the basics for now , build confidence and be comfortable with my decisions. -
@marton-tompos Welcome to the group!
