February

04/03/2010 | By More

Spring is in the air and not a moment too soon! Those bleak winters months are almost behind us, the garden is starting to bud and the birds are munching through the feed faster than I can replace it. March brings us Cheltenham and that is always interesting, to say the least.

It’s difficult to accurately compare last month against previous years as I wasn’t really around much last February. But overall I was above my previous best Feb by around 11%.  Generally, I was pretty happy with things.

Feel is difficult to compare sometimes. The markets always shift and slide around and I think that if your change your view on  something, then others will probably change also. It’s like being in a crowd of people who want to get a good view, one person goes on tip toes so you have to do the same, before long everybody is standing on tip toes and no one has a better view. One important part of your activity in any market is to try and find new ways to get a better view. Each time I do a talk I’m always amending it to bring it up to date. Some things that worked really well only a couple of years ago, are less effective now or have changed in some way, so it’s a constant process keeping things up to date.

I’ve started March just fine and I put in a good day yesterday, but the whole month really hinges around Cheltenham and I’ll only really know how that’s going well when I am in the thick of it. Last year was good, the prior year tough, thanks to the weather. The weeks before and after Cheltenham are often no great shakes, so the whole of the month really does hinge on that one week. Its basically all up in the air until we arrive at the start line.

Lets hope Betfair have put their recent system issues firmly in the past. I know its the fear of many, that Betfair goes down during such an important meeting. Good luck for March!

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I left a good job in the consumer technology industry to go a trade on Betfair for a living way back in June 2000. I've been here ever since pushing very boundaries of what's possible on betting exchanges and loved every minute of it.

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