Post #1 in the new FAQs section. Theres a few questions starting to come up from time to time in the comments so I thought I'd make some easy reference for people who want to know. Please feel free to comment on these too, I'm always curious to know your answer to the question in point.
I bet on Tennis 95% of the time. I used to bet on Cricket, Darts, Snooker, Rugby, Big Brother (!), Pool, Soccer and a few others, mainly concentrating on the ones at the front of the list. I decided to concentrate more on tennis for a few reasons.
- Television channels were starting to show more of it on tv. You can now find some tennis on a sat channel maybe 35-40 weeks a year - a very rough guess, I have the standard sky+ set up.
- Because of the added coverage and the growth of betting exchange "trading" the tennis markets were becoming more active and liquid.
- I was confident I knew what I was doing on tennis.
- I had more commitments away from the computer, I wanted to spend less time working on everything that I could possibly work on and focus on something that I could do for a few hours and then stop.
- Tennis suits my style and I enjoy watching (and playing) it. It's fast paced with lots of swings of fortune.
What do you bet on and why ?
An interesting blog covering the psychological aspects of trading enjoyed reading it.
What percentage of your tennis trading is WTA (ladies) and what percentage ATP (mens) and how do you need to adjust your psychology for each?
Posted by: R Davies | February 12, 2007 at 10:17 AM
Tough question to answer as I have never actually figured it out before. I would hazard a guess that it's about 50/50. And yes I do find my thinking needs to be a different for each. Men can be a little more predictable that's for sure, but then we knew that already didn't we?! I find I can be a more agressive in my trading on the womens and more cautious and stand offish in the mens. More detail to follow on this when I have time to think about it and post next month.
Glad you are enjoying the blog, good luck.
Posted by: Matt | February 15, 2007 at 09:30 PM