Spread Trading Diary and New Account Opportunity

[TheChipPrince]

[X] gg fell at teh first FML.

Bet settles at -15, which means -£37.50

Running total -£17.50

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[T_Mar]

Good luck with this Simon... not sure if you remember I put a thread up asking about the spreads earlier in the year - Took your advice and stuck to the racing match bets - A friend and I did it as joint venture for bit of fun really - ran it from Royal Ascot - Champions day on the flat and did pretty well doubling our initial roll - we only bet on saturdays or summer festivals midweek and never dropped below what we started off with

We thought the jumps would be much more swingy with potential for fallers and softer ground so we having a break to reasses - planning on sparking it back up again though... Considering the all weather aswell, as plenty of potential to find dodgepots.

All the best

[Simon Galloway]

Good luck with this Simon... not sure if you remember I put a thread up asking about the spreads earlier in the year - Took your advice and stuck to the racing match bets - A friend and I did it as joint venture for bit of fun really - ran it from Royal Ascot - Champions day on the flat and did pretty well doubling our initial roll - we only bet on saturdays or summer festivals midweek and never dropped below what we started off with

We thought the jumps would be much more swingy with potential for fallers and softer ground so we having a break to reasses - planning on sparking it back up again though... Considering the all weather aswell, as plenty of potential to find dodgepots.

All the best

Cheers, good to hear you made some money.  I think a lot of flat races are unpuntable.  Having to pay a 1 length spread for a 5F sprint where you can throw a blanket over the first 5 finishers is hard to beat imo.

The jumps are swingy, daft things happen, but with a little bit of luck I think it is easier to cover the spread, particularly taking on suspect horses.  Bad things do happen, horses get brought down, easy winners ease down and let the other horse get within a couple of lengths when they should have been beaten by a distance etc.  And like the other day, horses pull up with no chance of winning, even though they were going to win my bet for me just by getting round last.

[T_Mar]

Good luck with this Simon... not sure if you remember I put a thread up asking about the spreads earlier in the year - Took your advice and stuck to the racing match bets - A friend and I did it as joint venture for bit of fun really - ran it from Royal Ascot - Champions day on the flat and did pretty well doubling our initial roll - we only bet on saturdays or summer festivals midweek and never dropped below what we started off with

We thought the jumps would be much more swingy with potential for fallers and softer ground so we having a break to reasses - planning on sparking it back up again though... Considering the all weather aswell, as plenty of potential to find dodgepots.

All the best

Cheers, good to hear you made some money.  I think a lot of flat races are unpuntable.  Having to pay a 1 length spread for a 5F spring where you can throw a blanket over the first 5 finishers is hard to beat imo.

The jumps are swingy, daft things happen, but with a little bit of luck I think it is easier to cover the spread, particularly taking on suspect horses.  Bad things do happen, horses get brought down, easy winners ease down and let the other horse get within a couple of lengths when they should have been beaten by a distance etc.  And like the other day, horses pull up with no chance of winning, even though they were going to win my bet for me just by getting round last.

Yeah we soon learnt that the sprints were a none starter - apart from certain cases like the Ayr GC meeting, where there was a ridic draw bias.. .we tend to concentrate on 1m2f + (staying races were particularly good to us)... like you say much easiier to beat the spread, and potential for wider margin wins... we def going to have a go at the jumps and think it could be really profitable, just getting our strat sorted

[vegaslover]

While not so good for spread betting, for the reasons already mentioned, jumps racing is far easier to read the form and pick winners compared to flat racing imo

[Simon Galloway]

12:55 Ascot River ripples / Pure Genius 0.75 your choice

I have bought river ripples over pure genius at 0.75 for £2

Saturday, so gonna be millions of bets today.....

[Simon Galloway]

Pure Genius pulled up pretty quickly, so a £28.50 winner

I also had a decent each way wedge freerolling on Skipper's Lad which was pretty unlucky not to land but whatever.

Running Total +£11

OK, I think you guys get the idea.  Whether you choose racing match bets or football supremacy bets, with a little bit of dicipline it is easy enough to keep things small-ball.  The free bet you get is pretty chunky, (e.g. a £200 total goals bet) so whether you happen to win £11 or lose £11 in order to qualify is fairly unimportant.