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How sceptics gave me my greatest trading edge

I’ve now been betting and Betfair trading for a living for over 20 years now, and I really can’t believe it. I mean, what a fantastic job I have, I basically get to watch sport for a living. Much has changed over those twenty years but one thing hasn’t. That very thing led me to…

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Betfair Football trading – Who scores first?

Watch a football match and often you will see the outsider team take a ‘shock’ lead according to most sources. But as you should know by now, it’s something that occurs more often than you would think. How often does the away team score first? Goals, Goals, Goals! Football is, generally, a low scoring contest….

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Thank you Bet Angel customers – We love you!

The start Back in 2004, I did a series of presentations at Financial trader events. My role was to explain what I was doing on betting exchanges, basically trading them like financial markets. In the 90’s I’d been trading a lot on financial markets, but getting access to the same tools the professionals use was…

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Important things I’ve learnt about trading

Impossible is just a word When I left my well established corporate job to ‘gamble for a living’ you can imagine the reaction I got. It’s fair to say it wasn’t exactly an idea that people readily embraced. But here I am 20 years later and much better off, not only financially but spiritually and…

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What makes the ‘Perfect’ trader?

Over time I’ve figured out, there are two extremes that create problems for traders. Understanding what these extremes are will help you become a better trader. By avoiding the characteristics they exhibit it will help improve your trading strategy and enable you to use the software much more effectively. Thus you will become a professional…

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Why tipsters sports betting tips can’t be trusted!

So when you’re looking at betting on something there’s one defining characteristic that you should be looking at which will determine whether you have a good bet or not. However, when I look at tipsters I always see this critical piece of information missing. Classic lines of a tipster People always want to ask one…

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Loss recovery systems when betting or trading

Quite often we get people arriving on the Bet Angel forum and asking about loss recovering systems. They usually get waves of blunt replies. There is a simple explanation, any staking that involves recovering a loss will not work in the long term. It’s a bad thing to do. Let me explain why. If you…

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Displaying Live Racecourse Data With Custom Columns

As regular Bet Angel users will be aware, the One-Click trading screen in Bet Angel is the most customizable of any Betfair Trading software. Not only can its appearance and layout be configured to your individual liking, but the information from the market it can display for each selection is nearly endless. As you can…

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Live racecourse data – On ANY trading interface

Since the Real-time GPS data from Total Performance Data (TPD) was integrated with Bet Angel it’s transformed the way many in-running traders who use Bet Angel have been able to trade in-play. For the first time, it’s been possible to automate their in-running trading strategies. By having the ability to now trigger bets using TPD’s…

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