Introduce Yourself to the Community
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Hi all!!!
Who are you? Pete Nisbet
Where are you from? Cornwall
What stage are you at in your trading journey? I'm a beginner. I've had a couple of attempts at trading that lasted a couple of months. Limited success with overs and LTD but my biggest downfall was my lack of discipline!
What's your background? I'm a small business owner.
Why did you join BTC? To improve my trading and meet like-minded people who enjoy trading too!
What do you hope to get from the community? Ah, I think I answered this above.
What are some of your trading goals? I don't have many goals. My previous attempts at trading showed me that you need to take things step by step, don't go in with all guns blazing! It might sound a bit unambitious but my first goal is to have a profitable month - and then build from there.Looking forward to getting going!
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@jordan-kane welcome to the community buddy! Great that you are here, you’ll fit in great anything you need let me know.
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hello everyone!
Who you are?
Jordan Kane
Where you are from?
Glasgow
What stage are you at in your trading journey?
Relatively new to trading, have done a lot of research and reading so understand the basics but looking to really get stuck into it. My starting bank will be around £500 which I have built from matched betting, starting with small stakes in order to develop my knowledge and skills further.
What's your background?
I am currently an accountant for a car retail business, married with one daughter.
Why did you join BTC?
I have been researching trading for almost a year now and I am really interested in it and excited to try and make some money. Eventually decided to take the plunge and join the community so that I could share my journey with like-minded people and hopefully benefit from the skills of the members.
What do you hope to get from the community?
Help, advice and support from like minded people. I can't really discuss trading with my family/peers as no one knows what I am on about so the community looks like a great platform.
What are some of your trading goals?
Football is the main sport I am interested in trading, however tennis also looks interesting but I have not looked at this in too much detail yet. Initially, I am hoping to have a side income to supplement my full-time job, however if things go well, I wouldn't rule out full-time trading in the future!
Looking forward to getting stuck in!
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@jason-lees
Welcome to the group buddy, I think you are in the right place. Look forward to watching your progress.
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Hi all.
I’m a brand new newbie. Still got my wrapping on and I’m all shiny!
I’m a Serving Police Sergeant and am due to retire on 1st May 2020. I have begun researching trading after a successful 18 months at matched betting. I like to bet on the horses occasionally and in general I win more than I lose.
Anyhow, I’m looking to start trading. I’m not greedy and do not expect to get rich! I’m simply looking to learn from the best and make some extra beer tokens each month. If I can make an extra £100-£200 per month I will be delighted.
My starting bank is £200 although I do have £2000k back just in case I need to reload a few times.
Apart from that I did my first lay the draw today and won!
This time next year Rodney.
Look forward to chatting with you all over the coming months and maybe, just maybe I may one day be considered a Pro trader and offering up advice of my own. -
@stewart-perrie totally amazing post here matey and just shows what you can do when you get stuck into the community and take it on like you have.
Well played my friend, you’ve come out the hours in and it is showing. You are on the road to becoming a very very good trader!
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Good Evening from a relative newbie.
Hope this is the best place for this post.
I joined about 4-5 weeks ago.
I did the intro on here and set alerts to the main forum threads on football, horses, tennis and a few others.
I read a lot and watched the videos.
I watched a lot on YouTube.
I listened to Trading in the Zone audiobook and a cracking wee ebook Ryan has a link for on here.
The people on here are terrific. Very helpful and plenty traffic which I mainly just learn from.
The football stats blow my mind. After years trawling websites for stats, this is a lifesaver.
I gambled mainly for the past 10-12 years and was a very good bank builder. I blew every bank I ever build.in one or 2 daft bets.
NOW I am a different beast.
So I started with over 1.5mg. Nothing mind blowing. I tweaked my filters a bit and still very early in testing. Probably not too much different to Ryan's 1.5mg strategy. I just pick the games and wait 10-20 mins and either get on 1.5mg or 0.5fhg. Just small stakes as I learn my way aboot.
I also have a few other strategies I am trialling. Being a novice it is more to learn how to trade than find a strategy. What advice would a relative newbie give to a newbie.- Be patient. Impatience was formerly my greatest issue. If there is nothing jumping out with value, go do something else until something presents itself.
- Educate yourself. Read and watch videos. Ask the guys on here. So much good advice and help from people who have been in the same place us newbies are before.
- Don't bin strategies. Tweak them. Amend them. Learn from every trade. I think one of the worst things I did was found things I was good at and profited from.....and then binned them when I lost a few bets/trades.
- Be Cold. The market/team/horse is not against you. I used to rage and throw s**t about when luck went against me. The market will move how the market moves. Do not become emotionally attached to each trade. Do not rage when you lose. Learn and move on.
- Set a plan when to enter and when to exit and stick to it. If you see a losing trade that you think is a goner, get out and take the loss. It seems that the real profits are made by taking your losses before they become £0. I often had a cash out on a hopeless trade of say 50% and just said ah well that one has lost, I will just let it ride. Now I cash them. A totally different mindset. I also often cash stuff for decent profit if I get a quick goal rather than letting it ride and being greedy.
- Set a bank. Set % per trade and stick to it. That advice has been around since the dinosaurs but so many people break it. Couple of bad trades and the mist comes down and the whole bank can go in one daft moment. DON'T DO IT. It never works. I reckon I have probably built £4/500 banks from £10-£20 10-12 times.....and sadly have blown them all in moments of regrettable madness.
- Look into software. I am crap with computers. V good with excel but that's where it ends. However, I am learning to use BetOnDroid and it is terrific for putting on stuff for overnight games or if I am going to be busy during the day. After spending lots of time Matches Betting and waiting for games.to start and watching in play for odds to hit, the boys n software to automate is brilliant. Can only do very basic things but how.to get better over time.
- Keep records of all trades and profit and loss and anything else you might find useful.
I keep first goal time and amount of goals for my 1.5mg strategy. I hope by the time I have 1000 games, I have a profitable strategy. - Have fun.
Sorry, long post. Welcome any insight or advice on this as I am green to trading.
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@stephen-arnold ok, so think about what has to happen for that to come true?
For example there has to be at least one goal - what’s that stats on that?
Home team has to concede first - what’s the stats on that?
Think about all the things.
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@ryan-carruthers said in Introduce Yourself to the Community:
@stephen-arnold So you want teams that come back from 1-0 after HT?
You say you are coming out of ideas as well?
no not at all , just the away team with good stats to be winning at half - time
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@stephen-arnold So you want teams that come back from 1-0 after HT?
You say you are coming out of ideas as well?
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@stephen-arnold said in Introduce Yourself to the Community:
@ryan-carruthers said in Introduce Yourself to the Community:
@stephen-arnold
What specially at HT?
the team that is winning at ht
thinking of the away side to get better odds , any filters you can come up with for me?
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@ryan-carruthers said in Introduce Yourself to the Community:
@stephen-arnold
What specially at HT?
the team that is winning at ht
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@stephen-arnold
What specially at HT?
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@ryan-carruthers said in Introduce Yourself to the Community:
@stephen-arnold What trades do you want to do?
Think about the kind of trade you want to do then you can build something around that buddy. I'll even help you here with the thought process.
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@ryan-atkinson I'd read through the football thread matey, then let it digest and then if you had a Q ask it away
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@stephen-arnold What trades do you want to do?
Think about the kind of trade you want to do then you can build something around that buddy. I'll even help you here with the thought process.
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@martin-futter said in Introduce Yourself to the Community:
@stephen-arnold try the ones I have sent out in the emails for the past year
i am really looking for something new that i can test out coming out of ideas
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@ryan-carruthers cheers mate is there anywhere in particular to look on the football forum as a new trader? or is it just a case of flicking through?
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