It’s an important time of year, as this changes the characteristic of these cards to the negative. But also it allows you to do a few other things and skip these cards if needed.\u00a0Racing tends to be lower quality on a Monday and Tuesday and that combined with the 15-minute gaps in-between the cards leads to much poorer market conditions overall. Yes, you may miss some opportunities, but not many!<\/p>\n
Overall traded volume\u00a0is slow and profits can also be, so you can take\u00a0some time out in the summer on these days to do other things or get some\u00a0more balance into your\u00a0life.<\/p>\n
My angle<\/strong><\/p>\n I know everybody is different, but I often find the cards on a Monday and Tuesday afternoon unappealing. Just not enough money getting matched to really go for it. It’s hard enough on a Monday as it is, but open up a gap to the next race and the per-second volume declines to the point where it becomes much harder for me.\u00a0Curiously, Windsor on a Monday evening always trades well, but the afternoon card and Tuesday, in general, can be poor. I really dislike Tuesday evening’s in the summer as it’s predominately low-quality jumps racing. No pun intended, but there is no need to flog a dead horse on two-card Tuesdays.<\/p>\n So I use the time to relax and do other things generally. I’ll keep an eye on the racing, but I’ll be experimenting with other things. Looking at data. Exploring new ideas, sanitising existing data. You get the picture.<\/p>\n This morning I went out for a monster Gym session and then mountain\u00a0biking for twenty miles. It cleared my mind, I got a bit fitter and probably lose a pound or two. That’s about the only time I try to lose a few pound. But when you are trading so intensively in the summer, I treasure these moments when trading is far from my immediate mind.<\/p>\n \n![\"keep-calm-and-stop-flogging-a-dead-horse\"](\"https:\/\/www.betangel.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/keep-calm-and-stop-flogging-a-dead-horse.png\")
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