Cold Trading — Betting Without Any Sports Knowledge
It may come as a surprise to some of you that many professional bettors and traders know very little about the sports they bet on. They’re called “Cold Traders”, and …
What Is The ‘Starting Price’? Why Is The SP Significant?
SP is an abbreviation for ‘Starting Price’. SP betting is when you back a horse or dog and do not take the current price. Instead you leave your bet to …
What Causes Pre-Race Price Movements In Horse Racing?
The public opinion, both professional and recreational, drives betting market movements for horse racing — and all other sports for that matter. This public opinion is most accurately formed on …
Using The Weight Of Money For Betting Market Prediction (WoM)
The Weight of Money (WoM) is represented by a percentage value and shows when the market is “balanced” or “unbalanced”. It’s used by Betfair traders to predict whether the odds …
Best Betfair Trading Software | Betting Exchange Tools & Apps
Looking for the best Betfair trading software? Want to speed up your bet placement or automate your strategies? Here’s where you’ll discover the best products on the market. Several Betfair …
How Efficient Are Sports Betting Markets? Can I Beat Them?
With any market, the more participants, the more efficient it becomes. The same applies to sports betting markets. In order to become a profitable bettor, it’s important to be aware …
What’s A Lay Bet? — Lay Betting & ‘Liability’ Explained
As soon as you begin to look past traditional Bookmakers and into alternative platforms — such as sports betting exchanges — you’ll be faced with the concept of a Lay …
10 Common Betting Strategy Mistakes (Biggest Flaws)
Trying to devise your own profitable betting strategy? It’s highly challenging, time consuming — and there’s a distinct lack of resources to guide you. So there’s many wrong turns you’re …
How To Automate Your Betfair Strategies (The Best Bot)
Looking to run your Betfair strategies across multiple markets and/or sports? You’ll need an automated trading Bot. Without one you’ll find it almost impossible to scale up. Betfair Bots utilise the betting exchange’s …
Analyse Your Betting Results The Easy Way With Bettingmetrics
I’ve written several posts that encourage readers to analyse past data in order to identify trends (see football prediction models). Data analysis is, of course, a fundamental skill if you’re looking …
What Is Dutching? What Is Dutch Betting? (Arbitrage)
Dutching or ‘Dutch Betting’ is when you’re able to back more than one outcome in the same event to win the same amount whichever of those selections wins. Dutching can …
10 Biggest Problems Betfair Traders Face & How To Approach Them
Thinking of becoming a Betfair trader? There’s a bunch of issues that you’ll inevitably experience. It’s best to know about them from the outset. Here’s my top 10 list of …
Can I Make A Steady Income By Scalping The Betting Exchanges?
Scalping is a high-frequency process of placing bets on both sides of the market (Back and Lay) in order to profit from small price moments. Betfair scalping is considered a …
Swing Trading On The Betting Exchange (Basic Betfair Strategy)
Swing trading involves looking for a large shift in the odds and capitalising on the change. It’s hard to predict drastic price moves — but Swing Traders that master this …
The Flaws In Placing Multiple Bets All In One Sitting
I’ve noticed that many punters are accustomed to backing multiple selections in one sitting e.g. the night before a race. For practicality reasons it makes sense; not everyone is able to bet when they’re …
Improve Your Betting With These Recommended Books
Here’s my top 3 books for sports betting. Each one serves a different purpose, and elaborates on the concepts that I write about on this site. 1. Sports Trading on …
Drifters & Steamers — The Risers & Fallers Of Betting Markets
Risers and Fallers exist in both financial and betting markets. In finance the Risers & Fallers show us the “winners” and “losers” respectively, over a period of time (e.g. the trading …