Overnight success

20/01/2011 | By More

How would you like to go to bed only to wake up in the morning to a successful trade?

While I’m enjoying doing the Austrailian open, a lot of the early round matches take place at hours I just can’t cover. Judging by the liquidity, this is the case for a lot of people in this market. So, why not take a different angle on things and place some trades to get matched overnight in-play?

Using Tennis trader, I can look up a match due to take place early tomorrow morning and place a trade to take advantage of movements that could take place. By laying a couple of prices into the market and keeping those bets through to the in-play period you can profit. Say I lay two bets at 1.50 for £10, if both are matched I will profit by £5 on my £10 stake.

How could both get matched? That is where the predictive capacity of Tennis trader comes in. When you analyse matches in advance you will often see odds ‘clustering’ at certain points in a match. By looking at the strength of both players and their propensity to break serve or take a set I can look at scenarios where either player could reach odds of 1.50. If I feel that scenario is likely or could be common given the scores I see, then the trade is on.

Try it yourself for small stakes.

moon

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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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