Category: Betfair

Get a trading edge with Probabilisitic thinking

Peter Webb 26th June 2020

Imagine you are a caveman meandering through a landscape, you hear a rustle in the bush. “What’s that…?” Your brain kicks into action and provokes a flight or fight response. It could be lunch, or it could kill you! Your primitive brain makes a really simple judgement and decides that the payoff here for ‘kill you’ is…

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Betfair API – Greening / Hedging / Cash out issues

Dallas 23rd June 2020

On Friday 19th June, without any prior notification, Betfair introduced some changes and new rules to their API. This had the effect of preventing ALL API software users correctly hedging position on the Betfair betting exchange. Typically this would have exhibited itself when trying to implement greening. The Betfair exchange wasn’t accepting orders correctly, leaving…

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Betfair trading – Trading Order Flow – explained

Peter Webb 20th June 2020

What is trading order flow? When I first started Betfair trading, I worked in markets I was familiar with. Football, Financials and Golf. I felt comfortable in these markets and traded them well. This was because I understood what the price should be and how the market would react to changing news. I kept looking…

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Impossible is just a word

Peter Webb 18th June 2020

The low point One of the first ‘moments’ to happen to me was the early dawn of computing. For some reason, I really took to it and started to really get into things. But this was another ‘roadblock’ moment. Despite my protestations, everybody thought I was just playing games on my computer. In fact, I…

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Betfair Trading at Royal Ascot – Key information

Peter Webb 15th June 2020

Royal Ascot is a highlight of the flat turf season and the often the social season. Well it usually is, but this year there isn’t a crowd, but it will still be a big highlight for the racing fraternity. We also have extra races and focus this year thanks to the global situation. Based on…

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Trading ‘Normal’ Horse racing markets pre-off

Peter Webb 7th June 2020

Just an ordinary day Back in 2018, I recorded what an average day of trading was like and I wanted to go into more detail within this blog post. Let me set the scene for you, it was a Monday after Cheltenham and I did some horse race trading in the sort of the manner…

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Super Fast InPlay Trading with Bet Angel

Dallas 6th June 2020

In-play is all about speed and reaction If you trade any sports in-play you will know speed and timing are two of the most important requirements, especially in the more volatile, faster-moving in-play sports like horse racing markets. Being one of the fastest here will often mean the difference between a strategy being profitable or…

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Trading horse racing – Which are the best markets?

Peter Webb 29th May 2020

I’m predominantly a pre-off Betfair trader on horse racing markets. I cover many sports, but due to the massive number of horse racing markets and their aggregate volume, my favoured Betfair trading market is horse racing. If you follow me on social media you’ll see that I often tell you what meeting looks good that…

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Horse racing tips – Win by backing the loser!

Peter Webb 29th May 2020

When people offer you horse racing tips, they are typically looking to recommend a back bet to you. Perhaps there is a customer offer on a qualifying bet that gives you a good chance of winning or it’s just a plain old tip? But generally speaking, most people back to find a winner. For the…

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Horse racing Dutching tips – What is a good market?

Peter Webb 22nd May 2020

Dutching on horse racing We have covered Dutching before in a number of articles, so read up on those specifics if you want to learn what Dutching is, how to do and how to use the specialist tools in Bet Angel to do perform a dutch bet. So this article is focused on what is…

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