7 out of 8 ain't bad

I traded 8 games last night and made a profit on 7 of them for an overall profit of £18.40. Three of the games I actually only dipped into at the start and one a Brazilian 2nd Division game I had taken a small £2 profit before it kicked off and didn't touch it after that.

Overall my strategy and concentration last night was actually pretty good. When I wanted to do something else I closed my position before leaving the screen, so maybe I learned from the expensive cup of coffee I had on Saturday where 2 goals were scored while I was filling the caffetiere!!!!

Slow Weekend

Well after a fair bit of trading this weekend I ended up with a truly massive profit of £4.91. Saturday was a bit of a disaster after a promising start in the Falkirk- Hibs game at lunchtime. Sunday saw a recovery with only one losing game being the early game between West Ham and Spurs.

I didn't seem to manage to really get into any game with any level of confidence. Studying this last week does seem to indicate that my best results are when I select a game and concentrate on it. My difficulty is a tendency to get involved just because there is a game on.

I'm off to Anfield tomorrow night for the Liverpool-Villa game so there will be little trading tomorrow, but with the Champions League qualifiers Tuesday and Wednesday nights hopefully I can get down to some serious work then.

Akmal

Akmal was a handy winner for me at York last month at 9/2 and in the first yesterday ran out an 8/1 winner. Even better I managed to take 14/1 on him early in the morning - Happy Days.

I didn't trade at all Wednesday as I was at Anfield for Liverpool's 4-0 demolition of Stoke. Thursday night was an unmitigated disaster in the Europa League qualifiers with what seemed like a goal everytime I entered a market. Although I made a loss of just shy of £50 the positive was that I was disciplined enough to take the losses and avoid what could have been much worse!!!

Solid and Sensible

Quite a lot of choice in the in running football tonight but with all the games kicking off at the same time I decided to start with the Celtic - Arsenal game as I intended to watch it. This proved a good decision as I stuck with this game and came away with a £16.45 profit between the under/over 2.5 and 3.5 markets, opting out when the second goal went in.

The game itself saw Arsenal winning 2-0 and while some might argue that they were a couple of lucky goals I thought they were good value for their victory.

On the horse racing front watched York this afternoon and seen another magnificent performance from Sea the Stars. Not normally prone to backing long odds on shots but do admit to a wee flutter at 1-3 on. Might be termed as money buying that one!!!!

York Ebor Festival

Whilst I am concentrating on football trading these days my attention over the next four days will be drawn to the Knavesmire and York's Ebor Festival. York remains one of my favourite racecourses and scene of my biggest winning day ever when the St Leger was held there in 2006 and I could do virtually no wrong.

I won't make it over this week but I did manage a mildly profitable day there in July and with a bit of luck I will pick a few winners over the next few days. To those who are trading good luck.

With limited games today and a penalty at Tannadice in the 3rd minute I was happy to escape with a profit of £1.93 on the day. Avoided a potentially losing day and with Champions League and Premiership games tomorrow night hopefully better results to come.

Early predictions were all wrong but...

it all turned into quite a good day. Despite my predictions for the days football going to pot I had a successful day turning a £36.72 profit. It was probably a good sign that I managed to have greened up for a couple of pound before kick off in the PSV-Ajax game when the first goal went in after 3 minutes. Decided then to dip into the Man U - Birmingham game and grabbed a few quid, picked up £3 pound on Spurs Liverpool and then moved up a gear with over £10 profit on Benfica Maritimo and a few more good trades on the Brazilian leagues.

Monday has quite a few in play games but most are from leagues I don't follow but there is an SPL game between Dundee Utd and Hearts on ESPN so should get some good liquidity and hopefully a low scoring game.

I'm Back

Well after a bit of business building and a few weeks holiday including some time back at home in Scotland and a profitable day out to York Races last month the return of competitive football sees me back in front of the screen.

Day one of the Premiership season saw a modest profit of £15.97. Could have been more but the Arsenal humiliation of Everton wasn't worth touching and I had little confidence in Hull holding out as long as they did at Stamford Bridge. Surprisingly my two best payouts of the day were paid before halftime which is rarely a good thing but I managed to get out of both the Arsenal and Celtic markets early and wasn't tempted back into either.

Looking forward to Sunday with PSV v Ajax in the morning and Spurs v Liverpool at 4 looking like possible low scoring games. Have a feeling that Birmingham might get a hiding at Old Trafford so I'll probably not get too involved in that one.

I'm basically going to concentrate on football from now on as this seems to be the most likely way of me making small but steady profits. I'm going to use other avenues to have a punt on other sports that I want some interest in while watching, so I'll stick a few quid on Andy Murray in the Montreal final and can have a small wager while watching the baseball on ESPN America.

Wimbledon Day One - 100% Success Rate

Yes I made £2.21 on my single trade of day one at Wimbledon. Ah well onwards and upwards should get some time tomorrow afternoon if all goes to plan.

Weekend Dreaming

Again I have been trading very little, although I did make £6 on the Moscow derby this morning. Having spent Saturday shopping for stuff for the baby, do they really need so much, and then having cut the grass and some other gardening today, I felt it was time for some recreation so went to visit the new Dream statue just off the M62 at St Helens. So I thought I'd share this picture which proves we do occasionally get decent weather in this part of the world

Great - Football on the Telly all Night

Been quiet for a couple of weeks as there hasn't been much football about and I have been busy with other projects, but hoping to make the most of tonights football on Sky.

I made a fiver profit on the South Korea-Saudi Arabia game at lunchtime and am now quite happily trading the Ecuador-Argentina game on Sky Sports just now. Not the best game in the world but I do enjoy a 0-0 these days even if I was out of the market when Tevez missed his penalty.

With Columbia-Peru and Brazil-Paraguay to come this might turn into a long night, luckily now I'm my own boss I can decide when I go to work so it is going to be a late start tomorrow.

Cracking Game On Setanta Now

Just watched the first half of the Copa Libertadores quarterfinal between Defensor Sporting and Estudiantes and what a cracking game it is. Estudiantes took the lead after 12 minutes and since then Defensor have come close on quite a few times. The tackling has been a bit tasty to say the least but Juan Sebastian Veron does play for Estudiantes and is in the book. Couple of players sent off for aiming a couple of friendly kicks at each other. Roll on the 2nd half.

Oh yeah and I've greened up for a tenner on the 2.5 goals market. Already picked up £4.74 on the AIK-Hammarby game early on this evening and I did actually manage to get in on a bit of Tennis today making £12.42 on the Tsonga and Venus Williams games today. So all in all a pretty good day.

At the moment I have a quiet day tomorrow so hopefully I can trade a few more games at the French Open, but of course Andy Murray is playing so that will be a distraction. Tennis was easier when there weren't any Scots playing it!!!!

All Quiet on the Trading Front

I've been rather busy with a few other projects and the visit of my mother over the weekend, hence the lack of recent posts. I'm in the process of setting up my own business so the paperwork and organisation involved in this is keeping me rather busy at the moment. If everything goes to plan everything should be in place for the 1st of June and my life should be in order for at least a couple of months until the baby arrives.

Had been looking forward to the French Open even got the widget fitted, but unfortunately bar a few dip ins have not really had the time to trade much at all yet. Have had a few successful trades on the football, especially the Championship playoff final and tonight's Champions League Final.

With the end of the football season in most of the major markets I'm hoping that I can trade tennis sufficiently to make up the shortfall, I don't follow cricket and feel that any move into that area would be foolhardy. As a former resident of Sweden I do have some knowledge of Scandinavian football , so hopefully that and the World Cup qualifiers can keep me going until the new season gets started.

Does This Count As My Best Day Yet?

Today my profit on the over/under markets came to a grand total of £68.56, but I have to admit that I did make £26.60 of that on the Copa Libertadores games in the wee small hours while I was watching the Detroit-Anaheim game 7 on ESPN America. So I think it should really be added to Thursday's total which meant 2 consecutive days in the £40 profit zone.

This has improved the weekly total immensely as after Monday's loss I only made £9 on Tuesday and whilst a £29 profit on Wednesday did improve matters, until this morning it was looking like a rather disappointing week was in store. However I can now look forward to the weekend with over £100 profit for the week already made.

That said it might be just as well as I have rather a lot of other things on the go this weekend so not sure how much of a chance I might have to trade. I think the on going car hunt will continue and I believe I might actually be going out on Saturday night - wonders will never cease. Sunday prospects looks a bit better, though I have got some work to do that hopefully won't take too long, but I fancy Liverpool and Chelsea to hand out hammerings to West Brom and Blackburn so I think I'll be looking elsewhere for a profit.

Back Down to Earth With a Bump

After yesterday's great result I came back to earth with a bump today with Boro's 2nd minute goal at St James' tonight. Ended up losing 17 quid on the football tonight with a tenner profit on the play-off offsetting some of the loss.

I traded a couple of Tennis matches in Madrid this afternoon for a fiver profit and having decided to trade the Ice Hockey after all last night, which netted another £6, I ended up only six quid down on the day.

So not the best start to the week but at least I bailed out of the Newcastle-Boro game before the equaliser in the 9th minute. Not so long ago I would have hung around and ended up losing more. The ability to accept a loss is proving to be a valuable lesson that I have learned and if I can stick with this new found discipline it augurs well for the future.

Looking forward to the Capitals - Penguins game 6 in a few minutes time, hope Ovechkin can take it back to Washington for a game 7 decider. Think I'll lay the draw and try and trade out early and enjoy the show.

Smashing Through the Glass Ceiling

Well today was the day that I finally managed to get through the £50 barrier with my football trading and this was despite being out for a large part of the afternoon and missing the opportunity of that the Manchester derby provided.

A grand profit of £52.63 was achieved mainly through £20 from the Gillingham - Rochdale playoff, a tenner from AC Milan v Juve and fourteen quid from Porto Nacional. Add in a few £2 grabs elsewhere and this proved to be a great day.

Tomorrow is the start of another week and today's trading has got my weekly profit through the £100 barrier once again. Whilst I don't want to get to used to the extra income I now feel that I am actually improving. I have had a few games that have went against me this week but I have managed to accept the loss and come back to make sure it doesn't effect me to badly. Whether I can transfer this to other sports and markets is the next question that I have to answer especially when the football dries up.

Settling down to watch the Red Wings v Ducks game on ESPN America, probably won't try and trade as I don't want to push my luck to far.

To Boldly Go...

To the cinema on a Saturday night instead of trading. Went to see the new Star Trek movie tonight, and it was brilliant. Very funny, lots of in jokes and the new Uhura is HOT!!!!

On the trading front had a successful day other than getting caught out by Liverpool's early goal making £35.95 on the day. Main successes on the day were the Old Firm game and the Burnley-Reading Play-off game. I got out of the West Ham Liverpool game with only a 40p loss which has to be considered a result after Gerrard scored after 70 seconds.

Currently watching the Washington-Pittsburgh NHL play-off game. 0-0 at the end of the first period, was thinking of laying the draw but still trading at 4.2 so will probably give it a miss.

Racing Come Rain,Hail or Shine

Fantastic night at Aintree where we had an astounding night of weather, literally rain hail and shine with beautiful sunshine punctuated by heavy showers and one astounding dose of hail stones.

As I said before I really enjoy these free nights courtesy of Racing UK for anyone with the Setanta Sports Pack I'd make sure you sign up for the Racing UK Club as the free tickets are well worth it.

Well I didn't quite get 6 winners but 3 winners at 10-1, 4-1 and 11-10 plus the placepot for the first time in I don't know how long meant it was a very profitable night. Maybe I should give up this trading lark and just stick to pure gambling!!!!

Quick update

After yesterday's stunning profit of £2.52, I have almost got as much with a quick £2 trade on the Bulgarian football this afternoon.

Ah well off to Aintree, if I pick 6 winners the next post may be delayed and sent from sunnier climes. Ah well one can dream!!!

So is this Water Polo???

Currently watching the Deportivo Cuenca v Caracas game and the pitch is virtually waterlogged. They got the local fire brigade out at half time to drain the water away. If the game was over here I'm sure it would have been called off long ago, but at 2500m above sea level they don't seem that phased by it at all.

Despite the good number of in-play games today with low scores I've failed to cash in but should escape with a very small profit unless I get something badly wrong in the last 20 mins of this game.

Probably won't be trading tomorrow as I'm off to Aintree with another Racing UK freebie. So if anyone has any hot tips please let me know.

Normal Service is Resumed

After yesterday's loss I got back on track today, made a small profit on the Spain-Italy U17 game this morning then a bigger haul on Chelsea-Barcelona and finally nicked another fiver on the Lyn-Rosenborg game.

This left me with a profit on the day of £32.36, not exactly covering yesterday's losses but it is good to get back to a nice steady daily profit. If I can keep this going I can cope with the occasional setback like yesterday.

So looking forward to tomorrow with the Uefa Cup Semi 2nd legs, an Edinburgh Derby and the start of the Promotion Play-offs. Hopefully a couple of these will throw up a money-making opportunity.