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My Sports trading journey – Part five

My Sports trading journey – Part five

A new year seems a good place to try and round off my story of how I got trading and my journey through the markets.

Click on the links to catch up with parts one, two, three and four

The jump

So I had taken the great leap into the unknown. For years I’d worked diligently up the corporate ladder and could have stayed in a senior position, but had now stepped off. At the back of my …

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My Sports trading journey – Part three

My Sports trading journey – Part three

Links to Part one, Part two

Betting exchanges arrive on the scene

I placed my first bet on a betting exchange on June 5th 2000. It was a bet on the FTSE close market, which I won. It took until 11th June before I did my first sports bet which was on Tiger Woods US Open win market. Both these were on Flutter, being a slacker, I didn’t join Betfair till the 18th June.

My …

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My Sports trading journey – Part two

My Sports trading journey – Part two

Click here for part one

Financial markets

My early forays into the gambling world had taught me two things. People very often don’t make rational decisions and that making money by gambling was incredibly hard. I didn’t need to learn the latter point as that was obvious, but I thought it was worth a try. It was a dream that maybe somehow, someday, I could find a way overcome all the issues and achieve the impossible of making gambling pay. …

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My Sports Trading Journey – Part one

My Sports Trading Journey – Part one

Some of you already know my story, but here is it for those that don’t know and for those who are looking for some inspiration at the start of the new year!

The start

To understand where I am today, you need to wind the clock back to my childhood and the spark that created everything.

When I was young I loved playing sport. That was about all I enjoyed really and didn’t particularly excel academically. As a result I …

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