Keep it Tight

Very few trades today, as this time did not green till the end. Placed some bets on overs 1,5 and Barca and Man U.
Starting bank: £81,47
Closing bank: £98,85
Profit: £17,38

Up&Down, Down&Up

What a mad weekend I had again. Have no idea what's wrong with weekend trading, most weekends I end up over trading and out of money. And it should be the opposite with so many games available.
Saturday started with 52 and made it up to 91 ( had to reload with 25 due to scary early goal in Man U game) and was doing very well till one of the last games of the night Mallorca-Seville. I decided to try a new system with correct score. Messed it up big time and ended up with 16, was so angry to myself, so I went for all or nothing in exchange poker games and luckily made it up to 73.
So on Sunday started with 73 and made it up to 106 on footy trading, of course I did not stop and was waiting for Real M game. Same stupit errors, decided the away team will not score and backed 2-0 after the first few minutes. Was thinking to green up after Real M score the first goal. But not , they scored 2 in 2 min and I could not react at all! Was on the way to red for a small loss when the away team scored and i was red 40% of my stake. Why on earth I test something which I never done before with 40% of my stake??? Ended up losing most of my stake as usual and had 21 left, so went in the late mexican game all in on over 3,5 at odds 3.05. Again I was lucky and saw 3 goals in the first 30 min then greened up for 35 each way.
Monday I started with 56 and`traded on footy to 81.
So all in all I am up £4 for the last three day of trading....what a waste of time. I am not happy!

Starting bank: £52,64
Closing bank: £81,47
Profit:£3,83

15% up

Today made 15% up on my stake, so cant complain with the few trades which were available.

Opening bank £45,26
Closing bank £52,64
Profit: £7,41

Its all in the mind

My third challenge went bust, so its obvious to me now that I am rubbish at that. Will take it easy for now. Lost another £70 over the last two days, when was caught up in Milan game on under 4,5, could greened up but was chasing losses and all ended tragically. Then yesterday reloaded with £20 and was 100% up on my stake when layed Porto after they scored the first goal, did not greened up when Arsenal equalized and again lost everything. Layed Nalbandian for a wonder recovery which never happened.
Conclusion: Chasing sucks (I am sure we all know that but still keep doing it!!!)
Discipline is a virtue..... its all in the mind!

Today reloaded with £30 and made them to £45,23 which is around 50% up on my stake. I notice I do well with small stakes and then as the stake become bigger all goes wild and busted.......its all in the mind!

Profit today: £15,13

Porto - Arsenal, CL first leg

With no time Porto scores, mistake by keeper 1-0 Porto

Layed off Porto at 1,53 Arsenal can score goals I believe. Come on Arsenal, well done Uncle Capmbell header 1-1. Will wait a bit before greening up to see how the game unfolds.

Porto attacking now big time, good save by Fabianski.

37 min game seems to settle now. Porto dangerous though when have the ball. I am being greedy now, will wait a bit more. Bentner not up to Arsenal standards I think, what a dodgy cross!

Half time 1-1, can green up for 100% my stake but will see how second half develops.
I am greedy, what more I want? why not greening up still?
49 min very attacking game now, Penalty for Arsenal???Pheew no!
Shocking!!! 2-1 keeper very useless!!!
Layed some more at, 1.42 what a mess I made for myself.......speechless
53 min Porto are in gear now, please Bentner.......
come on Arsenal save my stupidity....57 min Porto wasting time ....priceless.....
Fabianski 2 Aesenal1 whats wrong with Arsenal keepers?
Arsenal looks poor at the moment
62 min still 2-1 Porto :(
Come on ladies...84 min, push, at least Bentner is off now.
Loss: £18,29

Day 15: 25% Challenge Day 1

Today started my third challenge (failed the first two). Aiming for 25% return on my stake daily, stake £32 to make it 580 by end of the month. Few trades today covering 1,5 overs.



Profit: £9,98

Day 13&14 Bad days running

Its vary hard to write when you made so many errors in the last couple of days. Errors were made which could be easily avoided. Mistakes have not been learned.The last two days were ups and downs. Yesterday my bank was wiped out from Roma game then reloaded with 20 and by end of the day lost again on Porto over 1,5 goals, and the final one was when then went in exchange poker to chase my losses and wiped my bank again, reloaded with 30. Villa game was good as layed correct score when was 2-1 with 10 min to go odds 2.04. Later on backed all my profit for the day on over 4,5 in Barca game and lost.Challenge failed.

Total lost: (£22,34)

20 to 300 Challenge Day 2

Traded some footy and tennis, Milan game was good to trade.11,3% of the challenge is done with some heavy trading tomorrow to come.Bank now 34,03

Profit:£4,15

Day 10&11 No excuse for failure

Lost the plot on the Porto game yesterday, then reloaded with 20 and lost them as well. Reloaded with 20 today and did some footy bank now 29,88 target still 300 by end of Sunday
Wednesday:Football: (118,44)Excn Poker (20)
Thursday: Football £9,88
Lost: £128,56

Day 9 Up and rolling

Today traded just a few games as was out for the footy at 19.45. Placed a straight bet on Man City to win as they are doing well at home, and after the loss on the weekend they had to win to keep their top 4 finish alive.

Football: £25,13
Exch Poker: £1,95

Profit: £27,08

Challenge: I have £118,44 in the bank now. On Sunday I started with £256 and dropped them to £42 with some mad trades. Thats not good enough! So I will set a challenge to myself to do £300 by end of this Sunday and see how it goes.

Day 8 Back to Normal

Football: £15,27
Tennis:£2,54
Exch. Poker: £3,36


Profit:£21,17

Day 7 Not good enough

Made rocky mistakes today.
Lost on footy £188,03

Lost: £188,03

Day 5&6 Footy

Did not trade on Friday as went out with colleagues after work. I try to avoid markets where I have no sufficient knowledge as it cuts down my bank. Most football games today came in so whoever backed the favorites must have a big smile now!

Basketball: £2,19
Football: £60,09

Profit: £62,28

Day 4: Mad Evening

Had some mad trades on Atl Madrid game for the Spanish Cup, lost a bit of money there, happy I did not lost the plot as it was scary at one point, where I just backed U4,5 and they scored next minute. Overall glad I escaped unscathed tonight.

profit: £4,66

Day 3 Footbal trading only!

Some good trades tonight on Leeds and Galatasaray games. Wish every day was as good as this one! It was obvious there will be goals in Leeds game, and I backed O2,5 after I watched the first 5 min. Then started backing as the odds were claiming higher, at one point there were odds above 3 for O,2,5??? Bargain!!!

Profit: £59,13

Day 2 Footy saved the day....again!!!

I keep wondering time and time again why I do trade on anything else and not stick to what I really know and feel confident trading - football. Today was a crazy horrific day as you al know it comes once in a while when you just want to trade so badly that you feel happy to trade on anything, whatever just bring it on! Usually in these situations the biggest losses occured and the bank is wiped out in a single day. Not today....because I was so lucky indeed again....but until when? I did all the wrong bad things which I knew I should not do. First when in, in a basketball game which was live on the TV - i never watched the teams before, did not do any research and of course I loss and then the madness called chasing started, felt so angry that I just could not stop myself. My bet was on unders total points in the game Red Star V Caribbean Islands if I am not mistaken (you see I did not even know the names of the teams......ring a bell?). As I backed the unders from then on the two teams just started to score points like never before in their life! And guess what? I started backing them heavily as the odds were keeping raising. Of course i still felt confident that they will stop scoring but they never did stop scoring and I lost 1/3 of my bank. The good thing was that I made a stop loss in my mind to stop at 1/3 of my stake and take a break, but I was fuming of my stupidity.

On the footy front I recovered 80% of my lost backing U3,5 on Chelsea game and U1,5 in Bordeaux game.

Then another stroke of genius occurred. I decided to play on the exchange poker holdem. I lost 18, then44 and then 22 in 10 minutes and I was again where I stared. My inability to control myself is costing me dearly. Later I went back and recovered 16,27 but the whole point is that I had to stop immediately when I lost the first 18 and never to chase my loses!!! Why I can't learn???

The last footy game of the night saved me as I gambled on Over 2,5 and after they scored 2 goals in the first half time I greened up for 100 being lucky to escape a heavy loss.

Football: 180,57
Basketball:(-99,37)
Poker Exchange games: (-67,27)

Today Profit: £13,93

P&L Jan and First Day of Feb

When I look back since I started to write down my trades I see some horrific trading madness of mine. Same old mistakes hopefully to learn from them in February.
Tennis: (£158,19)
Horse Racing: £4,75
Rugby: (£0.88)
Snooker: £1,98
Football: £280,50
Exchange holdem poker: £76,69

Today played just few games of footy and won £15,90 and £0,62 on NBA


Profit:£16,52