• Norris McWhirter from the Guinness Book of Records
    Betfair Trading,  In-Running

    Record Breaker

    My April Trading Update The headline news is that April was a record-breaking trading month for me. Sounds great but I only won £94.98 so I’m not getting over excited. *For the youngsters reading this who have no idea who the guy in the image above is I’ll tell you at the bottom of the post. (You’ll have to read it all now) After 16 months of trading it’s only my 2nd ever green month so a win is a win as they say. I switched to In-Running (IR) about a year ago on 26th April 2019. I’ve used trial and error and switched and tweaked strategies over the last…

  • Trading Milestone
    Betfair Trading,  In-Running

    Trading Milestone

    I bought Tony Hargraves’s “In-Running Guide” on the 26th April 2019 and barring holiday’s, the odd day off for a poker tournament and days with no racing I’ve traded In-Running (IR) almost every day since. Prior to IR I tried pre-race scalping for about four months. Happy Birthday So I’ve completed a year now and so far I’ve had one green month. This month though barring late slip ups should be my second green month. That should be proof enough to show it’s not easy, regardless of what people might tell you. It requires some skill (race reading ability) which takes a lot of screen time to master, it requires…

  • Betfair Trading

    A Few Dollars More

    I’ve done a review, including some videos, of what it’s like to trade the US horse races via Betfair now that the UK & Irish meetings are all off. Under normal circumstances there is very low liquidity on most of the international races but since the UK and Irish racing totally stopped, it has really picked up. When I first looked at the US racing it wasn’t even getting £100,000 matched but the figures are building and building all the time. Tonight one of the four races I traded had £327,000 matched which is remarkable. Anyway to save me doing a lot of writing I’ve done three videos for you…

  • Effort in Trading Betfair
    Betfair Trading,  In-Running

    Efforts and Courage are not enough

    March Betfair Trading Update I started trading in Jan 2019 and as a long term “work from home” person I trade almost every day and in the intervening 15 months I’ve had just one green month in all that time. After getting some help from my new mentor and embracing his methods from 25th Feb I was confident that I’d be green in March. I didn’t quite manage it and that has been tough to take. Having had some time to reflect on it though I’ve realised that it wasn’t too bad a month in the grand scheme of things. If for no other reason than of all the losing…