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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 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 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 …
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 …