Trading Horse Racing Markets

Have you ever wondered whether trading the favourite is really the most profitable approach? While the liquidity on the favourite is high, there are some factors to consider that may impact your return on investment.

One key factor is that the odds on the favourite are often lower than other selections in the market. This means that while the liquidity may be high, the return you get for your trade may not be as great as it could be with other selections.

As long as liquidity is high enough looking to trade other selections can help you minimize your risk and increase your profits over time.

While trading the favourite can be a valid strategy, it's important to consider these factors before trading. By taking a more strategic approach and looking for value in other selections, you may be able to maximize your return on investment and achieve greater success in your sports trading.

Especially if you have just started on your Betfair trading journey.

00:00 - Introduction
00:56 - Decimal odds on the Betfair betting exchange
02:18 - Where is all the money?
03:55 - The set-up and staking I'm using on this market
04:50 - How prices affect the profit you make on a market
07:55 - Why this trade worked
08:45 - What we did and why
09:42 - Final trade result
09:50 - Final summary and discussion

#betfairtrading #betangel #peterwebb

When I first started Betfair trading on Horse Racing, I soon picked up speed and started really looking for to my first year of trading.

But as I headed into the new year I hit a complete roadblock. My trading seemed to dive and there was nothing I could do about it. It seemed like I’d lost my edge or the strategies I was using were no longer working.

I soon recovered and hit my stride again and had a really good year. Only to find the following year I went through the same cycle again. I figured something was up, so decide to try and learn what was happening and why.

In a nutshell it was seasonality and once I learned what happened and why, I just learnt to adapt my trading.

This video is about how seasonality will affect your Betfair trading on horse racing and what I do about it.

It should reassure you if you are beginner or just starting out on your Betfair trading journey.

00:00 - Introduction
01:09 - The three different codes in Horse Racing
03:37 - Betfair trading on Flat turf racing
05:57 - All Weather Racing
08:16 - Jumps racing, why clashing races are a problem
11:29 - Summary, How seasonality will affect your trading

#betfairtrading #betting #horseracing

I often look for favourable set-ups when I'm Betfair trading on pre-off horse racing.

I'll look at the market and see where there are key points I can trade or where I may trade at some point in the future.

If I don't see them, I won't trade them.

I'm looking for key points in the market where there is potential for profit at a reasonable risk. This will vary from market to market, but in this video, we look at a market that doesn't initially give us an opportunity but does later on.

Then we look at a market where the opportunity is present, but there isn't much liquidity.

So the two approaches are very similar, but one is more favourable than another, but we adjust our stake to keep the risk low.

The reason for the lower liquidity in the final market is that previous races had not finished, so there wasn't a great deal of interest in this race.

But we still managed to get a small profit from it. And lots of little profits soon add up to much bigger amounts.

00:00 - What are we trying to do when we look at a Betfair trading market
03:28 - Where is a good entry point to this market
09:51 - Letting the market present an opportunity for you
11:23 - Trading with small stakes in a similar manner

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I first stumbled across the Melbourne Cup in 2005, and a year later, I got up at 4am to have a good look at 'The race that stops a nation'

Since then, I've broadened my activity to include all racing in Australia to all territories, well, almost all. Because if you have never traded Aussie horse racing before, there are some key things you need to understand.

So ahead of the massive Melbourne Cup Carnival and all the key spring racing, here are some key tips for how you should bet and trade in Australia.

00:00 - Introduction
00:46 - The opportunity
01:16 - How Australian racing can supplement your UK Betfair trading
02:52 - Why Australian racing is very different from the UK
05:32 - Commission and turnover charges in Australia
07:20 - How Australian horse racing trades
09:30 - The Melbourne Cup Carnival
11:08 - How a typical week trades in Australia
12:58 - Summary

#betfairtrading #betting #melbournecup

In horse racing, favourites attract a lot of money in the betting market.

When the price of a favourite gets really short, you tend to be forced into a betting decision based on whether you should back it to win or lay it to lose.

Backing to win is risky as at such a short price, you could risk a lot for a small return with a massive loss if it doesn't win.

But placing a lay bet will mean you lose quite often as if the market is efficient, it should win quite often.

If you trade, however, you can take advantage of the short prices and this market indecision to make a profitable trade.

The problem with this is that each individual trade will only net a small profit, so you have to raise the stakes to a much more significant amount to get a decent profit.

In this video, I explain the process I go through to profit from markets with a lot of money and betting interest on the favourite.

If you want to modify your Bet Angel Guardian, there is an area of the forum packed full of examples to download: -

https://forum.betangel.com/viewforum.php?f=68

If you don't have the best Betfair trading software available, download a free trial at: -

https://www.betangel.com

00:00 - Introduction
01:13 - What I do at the start of the day
02:21 - Trading favourites in horse racing markets
03:34 - What watching the parade ring is important
06:17 - Small prices mean large stakes
08:57 - The trading style I applied to this trade
10:05 - Summary

#betfairtrading #betting #horseracing

When your first start Betfair trading, the market can seem like a daunting place. You open with a back bet, only to see the price drift, so lay instead. Only to see the price crash in.

Betfair trading can be frustrating!

If you're looking for an easy-to-understand Betfair trading strategy. This video shows you a particular strategy, explains why it works so well, and how you can use it to make consistent profits.

Sports betting markets can seem chaotic, random and noisy. But this is really just the market bullying you. So in this video, I describe why that is the case and how you can use this in your favour by being on the opposite side of this activity.

00:00 - Introduction
00:48 - Sports betting vs Sports trading
02:17 - Finding value and trading on the stock market
04:34 - Value betting vs Betfair trading
06:58 - Exploiting market volatility
11:06 - How I traded eight races and didn't lose
12:43 - Summary

#betfairtrading #betting #betangel

Betfair trading software is a must if you want to Betfair trading is a very competitive market, but now and again something comes along that is a game changer.

If you betting in-play or doing any sort of Betfair trading in-play on Horse racing, we just launched a new feature for Bet Angel that will completely change the way you bet or trade these markets.

There are two key problems with in-play betting or trading on horse racing. The first is that camera angles can be deceptive and lead you into a trade when you can't clearly see the action of the horses.

The second is the infamous in-play delay. Because of the delay in transmitting TV pictures, there has been a turf war for the faster pictures available.

This has resulted in people even using Drones to get faster pictures than most people can see at racecourses.

This new feature in Bet Angel, now gives you the ability to benefit from racecourse telemetry. Each horse has a special device installed in the saddlecloth which can now transmit horse specific data, straight into Bet Angel.

Introduction to the new feature: -

https://www.betfairtradingblog.com/bet-angel-in-running-total-performance-data/

How to get live Horse Racing data into Bet Angel: -

https://www.betfairtradingblog.com/using-live-racecourse-data-in-bet-angel/

#betfairtrading #betfairtradingsoftware #betangel

While I was Betfair trading this week I did a trade where I had enough time to tweet out that I thought the move in the betting market had 'probably gone far enough'.

I have covered these sorts of trades before in other videos but this trade combined two key factors in my decision to actively trade it.

So this video goes into depth about why I did this trade, what made me confident backing had gone far enough and that a reversal was likely. I refer to the other videos here so you can also look at those videos for more depth.

The first one mentioned in this video (The FOMO zone) is here: -

https://youtu.be/FrhZQxsTV9M

The second, about trading crossovers on Betfair, is here: -

https://youtu.be/MkCAFFFclic

Basically, we look in this video at the key factors that made this a profitable Betfair trade. This trade was done pre-off on horse racing.

#betfairtrading #betangel #sportstrading

Betfair trading offers many opportunities to profit from betting or trading on your favourite sports.

But have you ever looked to the sky for inspiration? Trading opportunities can come from many angles, but the sky actually is one of them.

Pre-pandemic it was common for jockeys to travel larges distances between races. But even in the current era, turning up for one race, especially in a helicopter could be a significant sign that there is something going on in the market.

Even if it's not a jockey, a trainer or owner should trigger your interest in what is happening in the market. Their presence at a racecourse should get you more interested in why and get you checking for clues on what is happening in the market.

While it's not an everyday occurrence, these sorts of things can create some excellent trades.

You may see I've got a scar on my head and a puffy eye. Nothing serious, but it was a mountain bike crash.

#betfairtrading #betting #horseracing

This is a duplicate(ish) upload as YouTube couldn't render the previous one to HD quality, so I've uploaded it again in a slightly different format. Sorry about that!

There are lots of ways to find a profitable Betfair trade, but one of the strongest signals you can get in a market is when a jockey or a trainer wins a couple of races in a row or you detect a draw bias unfolding.

This will light a fire under the market for the next race, which can be a great trading opportunity.

Betfair trading can be very intensive though. So it's perfectly possible, especially if you trade pre-off, that you will miss the actual result of the race or some of the detail of what has happened.

But that's not a problem with Bet Angel as you can run multiple pieces of automation to now only trade for you, but you can also get it to gather information for you so you can quickly review or alert yourself to key things that are happening in the market, or even in prior markets.

That's what we discuss and show in this video.

£600 trade at Royal Ascot using this strategy -

https://youtu.be/phO5sF2V93w

Check out this video, which explains the psychology behind this trade: -

https://youtu.be/FrhZQxsTV9M

To download the files used in this video, visit the forum: -

https://forum.betangel.com/viewtopic.php?f=68&t=23601

#betangel #betfairtrading #automation

In this video, I've split the discussion between an explanation of how I approach a market and an actual trade follows after that discussion.

I discuss in great depth the sort of thing I'm looking for when I arrive at a market and then go on to show the trade I actually did in the market and point out some key aspects of the trade and why it worked.

There can be a lot of things to look at if you are using a Betfair trading strategy such as trading order flow on pre-off horse racing.

It can be as simple or as complicated as you wish, but I tend to follow a similar pattern to each race that I trade in this manner.

I tend to look for a suitable market and wait for the volume to build to get in and out with ease. Then I start looking for specifics within the market to get the right entry point

At that point, I'm also making a judgement on where my exit will be, in both directions.

Watch this video if you want to get a really detailed narrative on a successful Betfair trade on a horse racing market.

#betfairtrading #horseracing #betting

Betfair trading is a very competitive business. Lots of people are familiar with certain trading styles and will use those in the market. So you need to be a little bit clever to outcompete other Betfair traders.

When we designed the first version of Bet Angel it was quite simplistic in terms of a trading tool, but over time we have added more and more features to it to improve execution edge.

When you have an execution edge you can trade the same market as somebody else, using the same tactic, but still trade better.

In this video, we use this Bet Angel Servant: -

https://forum.betangel.com/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=18732

To perform the execution of a trade for us. This leaves us to focus on the placement of the opening bet and the servant will use some logic we have given it to give us the best possible chance of profiting.

See the video where I discuss this tactic here: -

https://youtu.be/i0tzkuqcwWQ

Enjoy!

#betfairtrading #betangel #betfair

Betfair trading can seem really complicated at times as there are so many things to look at.

Your profit from the price movement in odds, that's simple enough to understand. But which way are the odds going to go, when should open your trade. Should you back first, lay first, what happens if the price goes against you?

This Betfair trading strategy solves pretty much all the standard questions and problems you have when you trade.

You don't need to think much about when to get into the market and you don't need to worry about direction.

Better still, it's easy to understand and even easier to do perform this trade in the market. Of course, there is still a little risk attached to any trade, but this is about as close as you will get to the 'perfect' trade.

We use some additional features on Bet Angel to make this trade even easier.

Timeline: -

00:00 - Start (Surprisingly)
01:08 - What are we trying to solve?
02:25 - Setting up the ladder trading interface
03:37 - Trading a market using this strategy
07:22 - Summary

#betfairtrading #betting #betangel

If you are interested in betting or Betfair trading in-play on horse racing markets. Bet Angel contains a number of ways to enhance your ability to trade.

We have covered some of this, quite lightly, in this video: -

https://youtu.be/fcvSSnagrFg

But in this video, we go a little bit deeper on the specifics of how some of the functions work by showing them in use.

We place a couple of trades in-play on a horse race and examine the direct trading features that you can use to execute these types of trades quickly and easily in the market.

Check out the keyboard shortcut editor, if you want to place your trades even faster!

https://youtu.be/QAjxpOyRGqw

We will do follow up videos to this one to discuss minimising liabilities when trading in-play and also about specfic stats.

You may also want to check out our video specifcally around how to read pace, which you hear me mention in this video: -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROWhxLZgN2c

#betfairtrading #betangel #inplay

A lot of trading is quite simple at its core, but often people overlook the basics when trying to trade profitably.

When I trade, I try to offer bets to the market as this allows me to profit even if there is no price movement, or if that movement is in a narrow range.

By doing this you can give yourself another option to profit, on the basis that there is only one scenario where the trade could go wrong. Even it that scenario it's still possible to have a chance to get out at break even.

In this video, we do some simple Betfair trading using Bet Angel, but explain why we have the screen set up a certain way to take advantage of the way the Betfair betting exchange works.

#betfairtrading #betangel #betting

If there is one piece of advice that is worth heeding when you start betting or trading on Betfair, it's read the rules!

Market settlement on Betfair is determined by the rules as so to be fair to backers and layers.

But you also find that in each underlying sport there are a set of rules that govern how they are run and settled.

Most of the time things go as planned and nothing special happens, but every now and again the market throws you a curveball and if you are ready for it, you can take advantage.

That is what one Bet Angel customer did when they were doing some in-play Betfair trading on horse racing.

What looked like a normal horse race was transformed by an incident early on in the race at Fontwell.

From that point, chaos ensued and at the end of the race, you could still back the eventual winner way above the traditional 1.01 that a winner of a horse race trades at, when it crosses the line.

Other markets I've covered where the rules played a part: -

Next US President market - https://youtu.be/bjf1HpxigdQ

Worst football trade ever - https://youtu.be/vvVuyCYrPYI

#horseracing #fontwell #betfairtrading