Light at the End of the Tunnel for Racing

Seasonality in racing February is historically the poorest and hardest trading month of the year on the pre-race horse racing markets. We are deep into the heart of national hunt racing and typically there will only be around £450m traded this month which is around 40% less than the amounts expected as we hit peak…

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How to display special information on the Ladder trading screen

The following post will show how if you’re using Bet Angel V1.51.1 or above you can display additional information like the Last Traded Price (LTP) on your ladder screen as in the image above, this can be very useful especially if you’re an In-Play trader using the ladder screen to trade from as the prices…

Optimised Greening for Increased Profits

If your trading two runner markets like Tennis, Cricket, O/U X.5 goals in soccer etc then you should be using ‘Optimised Greening’. By enabling this option within Bet Angel it will give you increased flexibility when greening up allowing you to maximize your profits and minimize your losses in all markets where there are only…

Dealing with Betfair Outages – Be Prepared!

How many times have you had an open trade only for an unforeseen incident out of your control too suddenly occur resulting in you not being able to close your position and possibly leaving you staring at a hefty loss – especially if it’s an open lay position. If this is something that your fortunate…

How to Link Football Markets with Automation

Many football strategies can involve the cross-checking or the linking of one or more markets, doing this manually with Bet Angel you can of course use features like the watchlist to monitor multiple markets but what about using automation – how can you trigger bets on one market depending on what’s happening in another market?…

Football trading – Lay the draw – Automatically

Overview of the Lay the draw Betfair trading strategy This trading strategy is one of the oldest sports trading strategies around and lots of Betfair football trading strategies find their origin in it or variations of it. This football trading strategy is quite simple to understand and pretty popular when trading on Betfair football markets….

Behind the scenes of British horse racing

A few weeks ago I was fortunate to be invited to Newmarket (the birthplace and spiritual home of British horseracing) by a fellow Bet Angel forum member who is an ex-jockey that rode for Sir Mark Prescott for many years. Newmarket itself is steeped in history and is built around horse racing with approx. 3000…

Betfair Tennis Trade Anyone Can Do

As Wimbledon is about to start I though it might be an idea to explain one of the simplest but most effective trades in tennis anyone can do. The strategy is known as ‘Laying the 1st set winner’ and it’s one that’s been around a long time but used at the right time and in…