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FINE AS FROG HAIR
28 Oct 10 21:36
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to even raise an eyebrow, let alone question, any answer to the following.
If you, being either a pro or a serious amateur punter,  were given ( say) 5000 pounds of capital today, what amount would you realistically expect to grow it to over a (say) three year period ( reinvesting all profits and increasing your stakes over time).
At on which sport(s) would you concentrate ?

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FINE AS FROG HAIR
When: 28 Oct 10 21:38
" And on which ---  "
By:
FINE AS FROG HAIR
When: 28 Oct 10 21:51
And I almost forgot to add the rider.
If and when you do reply, then please just sit back and really analyse what you have said from the perspective of the " real" world of alternaive financial investing.
By:
FINE AS FROG HAIR
When: 28 Oct 10 21:52
* alternative
Fat fingers today
By:
pxb
When: 28 Oct 10 21:58
Typical financial markets thinking.

Anyway, I'd give it to a software developer to develop a tool to automate what I currently do manually.

I can make money on any sport, but some I avoid, Rugby and ice hockey, for example.
By:
FINE AS FROG HAIR
When: 28 Oct 10 22:00
And I'll preepmt the predictable replies from yhe usual suspects.
Yes, it is a rather typically pompous,@rseh0le question from me, but try to get beyond that if you possibly can.
I think it's a valid question, and the answers ( if serious and true) could be very useful info. for any beginners just starting out on the rocky road to wealth and riches from gambling.
By:
DaveEdwards
When: 28 Oct 10 22:09
Before the thread gets going you have an opportunity to say what you think Froggy. You already claim to be a profitable bettor. What would you expect to achieve with the scenario you have outlined?

£5k, profits reinvested on which sport please? How much would YOU expect to make?
By:
gibmark
When: 28 Oct 10 22:19
football for sure...lots of liquidity..
most popular sport ..most loose gamblers ,
i asked a similar question sometime back to get a few ideas to explore other sports in between football ..
in conclusion i thought it came down to ,
a) a sport you know about ..or are preparred to learn ,
b) what kind of gambling /trading you prefer ...each sport requires "different tacts"
c) time you have to invest into watching game ..e.g cricket is nearly all day !,
footie is 90 mins , horse racing is few mins.
personally i would bet on snail racing if there were cash in it ! ..lol
but i,ve found cricket quite easy to green up trading ,
tennis ..but lack of knowledge of players can catch you out ..but again can be great for ir trading , ...footie best imo though ,
as for £5 start ...that really depends on your personal requirements
By:
pxb
When: 28 Oct 10 22:35
but try to get beyond that if you possibly can.

That in a nutshell is your problem. (Double meaning intended)
By:
Whippet
When: 28 Oct 10 22:46
25k  year 1
125k year 2
625k year 3

trading on the financial markets.
By:
FINE AS FROG HAIR
When: 28 Oct 10 22:56
DaveEdwards
In 3 years I'm currently aiming for about 25K.
That would be extremely excellent in relatively conventional financial circles ( remember you couln't get into a super style hedge fund with only a 5K ante). And I'm sdopting a pretty risk all or nothing strategy.
Pxb
Still sulking eh ?
By:
DaveEdwards
When: 28 Oct 10 22:59
Very good. Just think how much more it might have been if you were pricing up the football games? Assuming it is that sport you involve yourself with.
By:
FINE AS FROG HAIR
When: 28 Oct 10 23:10
And Dave I couldn't, at today's liquidity levels in the soccer mkts across the board, really envisage ever being able to make such more that 5K to 10 K a month with a much larger bank of course, without running into bet size problems.
By:
FINE AS FROG HAIR
When: 28 Oct 10 23:17
As you know I don't adopt a value price approach.
I have acctually modelled some price variations and, interestingly, it wouldn't actually make a huge difference to my results.
By:
DaveEdwards
When: 28 Oct 10 23:19
maybe, maybe not. I'm assuming that you operate in one(or more) of the subsidiary markets. Maybe worth exploring other avenues. The Investor made a very good post a while back that I'm sure I won't be able to do justice to now along the lines of thinking up scenarios and then exploring the implied probabilities of that event occurring. He, I'm sure, would be better able to put this much better. It would of course apply to both the area you were investigating plus any other related markets where the odds of the scenario you envisage may be out of line.

On that note goodnight!
By:
DaveEdwards
When: 28 Oct 10 23:21
that was in response to your 23:10 post ^^
By:
Escapee
When: 29 Oct 10 00:06
pxb....Anyway, I'd give it to a software developer to develop a tool to automate what I currently do manually.

If we could find a way to make it mutually benefitial....
And find a way of building up some trust in each other.


A couple of people on here might vouch for my IT skills.

Interested ?
By:
FINE AS FROG HAIR
When: 29 Oct 10 00:12
Escapee
For what it's worth I think pxb is a bit of a dreamer.
So watch it.
I could be wrong of course.
By:
Escapee
When: 29 Oct 10 00:21
oh... hmmmm, thanks for the input, In the light of which I shall wish pxb all the best for his endevours in this matter whilst I fail at an attempt of a discrete and gracious withdrawl. [:x]
By:
Escapee
When: 29 Oct 10 00:24
[:x]
By:
FINE AS FROG HAIR
When: 29 Oct 10 00:53
To be fair to pxb, I did say that I could well be wrong.
But as a lot of people infer about me, his posts just don't seem to ring as totally true.
By:
FINE AS FROG HAIR
When: 29 Oct 10 01:07
Btw I didn't actually say that you shouldn't try to set up a mutually beneficial arrangement with him.
I just said tread carefully if you do.
Don't want to scupper any potential opportunities for either of you to make some good money.
By:
pxb
When: 29 Oct 10 01:12
Escapee, drop me a mail at pxbradley AT gmail DOT com and we can take this offline.

Frog Hair is one of those people who gets his jollies abusing complete strangers online. He thinks he's being clever and original, but online forums are full of people like him.

BTW, I was in the S/W biz for many years. I know how to spec out what I want, including avoiding the bells and whistles of limited value.

What I would automate isn't rocket science and the main issue I foresee is whether BF's API supports it.
By:
FINE AS FROG HAIR
When: 29 Oct 10 01:18
I suppose that puts me fairly and squarely in place. Although I don't think I "abuse" anybody on here.
The good advice is for me to butt out of things that essentially don't concen me.
I will take that good advice on board here.
All the best to both of you.
By:
pxb
When: 29 Oct 10 01:38
I just checked my betting history. For the last 30 days I bet on 109 matches (of the type I want to automate). I made a profit on 102 and a loss on 7. My average loss was significantly larger than my average win, but nonetheless made $890.
By:
FINE AS FROG HAIR
When: 29 Oct 10 02:19
If you keep going at that rate you'll make approx.5K a year, a football year that is.
Am I right ?
And what capital are you utilising to do this ?
Is it scalable ?
By:
FINE AS FROG HAIR
When: 29 Oct 10 02:24
Btw that's a really amazing win/loss ratio.
You sure must be doing something right.
By:
Compound Magic
When: 29 Oct 10 02:28
Okay a bank of 5K you said over 3 years.

My market would be Melbourne, Australia.  City meets Saturday only ~ on horse racing.

My expectation would be, taking into consideration number of bets, number of days, commission
both normal and premium, scalability/liquidity and no further changes to Betfairs take,  I have come
up with the figure of 250K plus or minus 50K

I would be a position taker, backing and laying.

My bets for win and lay would be advantages to chances.

Advantage to chance would mean if I priced a horse at 10.00 my chance of it winning is 10%, so if
It was over that price I would back it thus ~

For my win bet it would be my chance of it winning 10% * 12% of my in play bank 5000 =  60.00
For a lay liability it would be my chance of winning the lay 90% * 12% of my in play bank 5000 = 540

If Betfairs price was equal to or less than 10.00 I would lay to a liability of 540
If Betfairs price was greater  than 10.00 I would back  with a stake of 60.00

If my prices are reasonably accurate  (which they usually are) the profit derived would be the overlay from my prices to what is obtainable on Betfair.

From the bank of 5K I would start with an in play bank of 1K and have 4K in reserve.
If the in play bank dropped below 500.00 I would transfer from reserve 20% or 1K whichever is
the least amount of the two.

The scalability is pretty much exhausted on reaching a 5K in play amount so any time the in play
Bank reached that figure all over would be transferred to reserve.

I would over that 3 year period expect about 150 betting days with approx 9000 betable selections
about 60% being lays.
As from my experience win betting is the most profitable but the most volitile, I would expect
that over 60% of profits would come from the win bets.

Further scalability could be achieved by betting the exotics, Trifecta's, Quadrella's, Quinella's etc...
To hard to quantify results for these.
By:
FINE AS FROG HAIR
When: 29 Oct 10 02:29
I think one of the most famously successful gamblers of all time was quoted as saying that all even he wanted do was get it right more than 52.5% of the time.
You're sure ahead of him in that respect.
By:
FINE AS FROG HAIR
When: 29 Oct 10 02:30
Billy Walters being the gambler in question.
By:
Avocado
When: 29 Oct 10 02:52
hi frog you ass candle
By:
pxb
When: 29 Oct 10 03:02
Capital - even though I do 3 or so a day on average, I do them serially (mostly), so capital < $500. Although I went to a liability of $3,0000 on one.

It will scale between X5 and X10. I've already done 1 today (its morning here) and probably won't do more than one more today. Other stuff is more interesting.
By:
FINE AS FROG HAIR
When: 29 Oct 10 03:08
Hi A you turnip.
By:
Avocado
When: 29 Oct 10 03:10
Have u done any bets this week frog?
By:
FINE AS FROG HAIR
When: 29 Oct 10 03:23
Compound
So you're achieving the following performance averages.
60 wagers a day for 50 betting days of the year, making bets and lays of the max size you mentioned, and are making circa 1500-2000 pounds or  Aust Dollars a day, that is an avg of circa 25 pounds or dollar per wager.
A fair summary ?
I'm envious I have to admit.
Obviouly on the geegees, a sport I don't know enough about to bet on unfortunately, from the sound of things.
Many, many thanks for your quite interesting, and dare I say seemingly quite believable, response.
Should inspire a few beginners out there methinks.
By:
Compound Magic
When: 29 Oct 10 03:37
Close to 2000 a day when reaching maximum scale, not initially.
I hesitated posting these figures as most would find them far fetched.
By:
Compound Magic
When: 29 Oct 10 04:36
example of a good days laying at maximum scale

    Race        Tab        Horse        Lay max price        Lay Bet Liab.        Betfair SP        Result   
    1        1        DUTCHY'S LASS        25.0        576.0        5.30        133.95   
    1        5        BELLA'S CRY        25.0        576.0        14.00        44.30   
    1        6        ZOOMANIA (NZ)        25.0        576.0        5.70        122.55   
    2        2        RETRIEVE        7.4        518.9        5.16        124.73   
    3        2        PERTURBO        25.0        576.0        5.04        142.57   
    3        5        BONDARCHUK (NZ)        19.5        569.2        16.50        36.72   
    3        10        TWO HILLS        25.0        576.0        12.00        52.36   
    3        12        FEROCIA        23.0        573.9        9.41        68.24   
    4        1        GOTTA KEEP COOL        25.0        576.0        10.00        64.00   
    4        2        PASS ME BY        25.0        576.0        13.10        47.60   
    4        6        MILES ABOVE        10.5        542.8        8.71        -542.80   
    4        8        TESTAGUY        11.5        547.8        7.23        87.92   
    4        9        STONEBLACK        25.0        576.0        7.20        92.90   
    4        11        CHASE THE SUN (NZ)        25.0        576.0        19.38        31.33   
    4        13        ONE SHOT (NZ)        25.0        576.0        17.88        34.12   
    4        16        QUITE FAMOUS        25.0        576.0        21.60        27.96   
    5        1        PINNACLES        25.0        553.4        3.60        212.84   
    5        2        BONINDI        25.0        553.4        7.80        81.38   
    5        3        ONLY HE KNOWS (NZ)        15.5        539.3        5.33        124.54   
    5        8        O'REILLY'S CLOCK (NZ)        25.0        553.4        10.22        60.02   
    5        9        OFFENDERS        25.0        553.4        8.00        79.05   
    5        10        MONSIEUR FERAUD        25.0        553.4        22.00        26.35   
    5        11        TOGNI        25.0        553.4        12.21        49.36   
    6        1        ROYAL IDA        13.5        555.5        12.50        48.30   
    6        3        BELTROIS        25.0        576.0        8.40        77.83   
    6        5        GRAND DUELS        15.5        561.2        11.40        53.96   
    6        8        SPACECRAFT        12.5        552.0        10.28        59.48   
    6        10        THE HANDSOME ONE        25.0        576.0        14.94        41.31   
    6        11        UXORIOUS        17.5        565.7        16.00        37.71   
    7        4        BERRINGAMA        25.0        576.0        5.70        122.55   
    7        6        SACRED ORDERS        19.5        569.2        14.91        40.92   
    8        1        BELSCENICA        25.0        576.0        10.50        -576.00   
    8        3        CAMEO MINX        25.0        576.0        6.80        99.31   
    8        4        CHOUXMAANI (NZ)        13.0        553.8        11.84        51.08   
    8        5        DAZZLING RUBI        20.0        570.0        18.82        31.98   
    8        6        SHYLOCK'S DAUGHTER (NZ)        25.0        576.0        10.37        61.47   
    8        12        EAU DE DALI        25.0        576.0        22.50        26.79   
    8        15        LITTLE TYCOON        25.0        576.0        10.50        60.63   
By:
FINE AS FROG HAIR
When: 29 Oct 10 04:41
Don't give too much away now.
This place is a den of thieves, I mean gamblers, after all.
By:
FINE AS FROG HAIR
When: 29 Oct 10 04:43
Sure A, I average about 30 a day. I only bet soccer.
Not in Compound's performance league either I'm afraid to say. Nowhere near at all.
By:
Avocado
When: 29 Oct 10 04:56
frog you havent got much money have u mate?
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