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What Is The Starting Price In Betting? - The SP Explained
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What Is The Starting Price In Betting? — The SP Explained

SP is an abbreviation for ‘Start Price’ or ‘Starting Price’. When a bettor takes the SP, they agree to accept the Starting Price — the price a horse (or greyhound) …

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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 …

The Off Horse Racing Start
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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 …

Betfair Trading Software (Betfair, Betdaq, Matchbook Trading Tools for Sports betting)
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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. Betfair trading …

How Efficient Are Sports Betting Markets? Can I Beat Them?
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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)
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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 immediately see the benefits. But you’ll also be …

10 Most Common Mistakes In Devising A Betting Strategy
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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 …

Bettingmetrics - Analyse Your Betting Results The Easy Way
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Analyse Your Betting Results With Betting.com (Formerly 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
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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)
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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)
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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 …

Weight of Money Betting Market Exchange Betfair
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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 …

Multiple Selections in One Sitting
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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
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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 …

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