Thursday, September 9, 2010

Could you trade Betfair effectively using Twitter?

August 21, 2009 by jiggypolo  
Filed under X-Trader Series

For a while I have been thinking of the best way to use Twitter and it suddenly came to me the other day when viewing through tweets via Tweetdeck, the number of spammers I was following.
This is not what I want!
I am not interested in making £1,000’s using twitter or gaining a free hundred extra [...]

Soccer Trading Pre-Match Pointers

August 18, 2009 by jiggypolo  
Filed under Betfair Trading

Does one player make a team?
The Answer: Yes – When it comes to trading the Betfair markets pre-match.
Over the past few days there has been plenty of will he wont play rumours on Arsenal’s midfield talisman Cesc Fabregas.
The Betfair graph above is taken shortly before kick-off in the Celtic v Arsenal match and I have [...]

Tiger Woods & the Paddy Power payout!

August 17, 2009 by jiggypolo  
Filed under X-Trader Series

I have been known to hack around the odd course for a few hours but I never got involved with the golf markets on Betfair, but I can imagine there was carnage last night with Tiger Woods losing for the first time when leading going into the final day.
Tiger will be licking his wounds this [...]

Laying Odds-on Teams in Football (Week 2)

August 16, 2009 by jiggypolo  
Filed under X-Trader Series

What a start to the Premier League and the ESPN coverage, (which I thought was much better than Setanta last season) they could have picked a better game to kick-off the new season and once again Arsenal served up that sexy brand of football us neutrals love.
The second week of my study into blindly laying [...]

Racing UK Charges are they fair?

August 14, 2009 by jiggypolo  
Filed under X-Trader Series

From Sunday August 16th your screens will go blank unless you pay £20 a month to keep up subscription of live racing pictures from most of Britains top racecourses.
But are these subscription fees fair?
To me they seem a bit excessive given the amount I was paying for the Setanta package, but I thought that was [...]

Pro X Trading Live – Successful Beta Test!

August 13, 2009 by jiggypolo  
Filed under Pro X News

Last night I did a live beta test of my new FREE live soccer trading service “Pro X Trading Live” on the Holland v England game and I am very excited about giving my knowledge to a wider audiance.
So what is Pro X Trading Live?
Basically its a micro blog of selected live Premier League matches, [...]

Betfair censured over claims of better odds

August 12, 2009 by jiggypolo  
Filed under Betfair News

The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a Betfair poster campaign on the grounds of misleading stats. In the advert Betfair claim if punters had placed £10 at their SP odds you would have been £460,817 better off than placing them at the industry SP.
The ASA adjudication said the claim wasn’t qualified in any [...]

7 Tips On Trading Soccer Successfully On Betfair

August 11, 2009 by jiggypolo  
Filed under Betfair Trading

Over the past few years I have been a successful soccer trader on Betfair and I want to give my seven tips on how I stay ahead of the game.

Only trade matches from the league you know most about
Never open a trading position to make the match more interesting
Make Notes
Keep A Record
Monitor the Markets
Have a [...]

Football Trading Teleconference.

August 10, 2009 by jiggypolo  
Filed under Pro X News

I hosted a football trading teleconference last night for the members of the X-Club, this was an opportunity for a lively discussion on the forthcoming season.
The beauty about the X-Club is that all my clients that I am mentoring cna benefit from sharing ideas with each other and the dynamics of the group now put [...]

Laying Odds-on Teams in Football (Week 1)

August 9, 2009 by jiggypolo  
Filed under X-Trader Series

If you a Norwich City fan this morning I doubt if your excited about about your clubs propects for this season as you was yesterday afternoon.
Norwich were one of the fancied teams to do well in League 1 and was priced up at odds-on to make a winning start to the new season. I am [...]

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