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How Efficient Are Sports Betting Markets? Can I Beat Them?
All / Sports Trading / Understanding Odds / Value Betting

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? What Does 'Liability' Mean? (Laying Guide)
All / Sports Trading / Understanding Odds

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 Most Common Mistakes In Devising A Betting Strategy
All / Prediction & Analysis / Sports Trading / Value Betting / Vital Knowledge

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 …

Betfair Trading Bots - Multiple Selections in One Sitting
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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 …

Football Betting Course From Orio Sports (Value betting trading course)
All / Football / Reviews / Sports Trading / Value Betting

Football Betting Course — Learn Profitable Strategies With Orio Sports

Accurately calculating your own football odds to identify profitable (value) bets is challenging. It requires skill, experience and a sound data collection technique. Not everyone will succeed at earning long-term …

Bettingmetrics - Analyse Your Betting Results The Easy Way
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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 …

Dutching (Dutch Betting Explained) -- Dutch Arbitrage Opportunities
All / Arbitrage Betting / Sports Trading

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 …

Betfair Traders (Betfair Trading, Problems Experienced By Traders. Sports Trading)
All / Sports Trading / Vital Knowledge

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 …

Scalping Betting Markets (Betfair Scalping Explained)
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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 Betfair Strategy Explained Swing Trade)
All / Sports Trading

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 …

Multiple Selections in One Sitting
All / Sports Trading / Vital Knowledge

Be Careful When Placing ‘Early’ Bets With Low Market Liquidity

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
All / Attitude & Mindset / Reviews / Sports Trading

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 …

Betfair Trading Software (Betfair, Betdaq, Matchbook Trading Tools for Sports betting)
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Best Betfair Trading Software 2021 (Betting Exchange Tools)

Looking for the best Betfair trading software? No doubt you’ll come across the name ‘Bet Angel’ amongst a host of others. Bet Angel is a feature-rich, fast and reliable software …

Weight of Money Betting Market Exchange Betfair
All / Sports Trading

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 odds are going to rise …

SP Odds Accurate Market Price (Middles, Inverted Middles, Negative Middles, Polish Middles)
All / Prediction & Analysis / Sports Trading / Understanding Odds

The Accuracy & Significance Of SP Odds

SP is an abbreviation for ‘Starting Price’ and until now has been widely associated with traditional bookmaking. You may want to bet at SP when there are no early fixed …

Risers Fallers Drifters Steamers Betting Exchange
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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 …

The Off Horse Racing Start
All / Horse Racing / Sports Trading

What Causes Pre-Race Market Movements?

The public opinion, both professional and recreational, drives market movements. For every selection in a sporting event an opinion is made up of optimistic Backers and pessimistic Layers. As the market …

All / Sports Trading

Cold Trading On The Exchange — Betting Without Sports Knowledge

It may come as a surprise to some of you that many Horse Racing traders know very little about the form, jockeys, trainers, pedigree, the going, and so on. Some traders …

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