{"id":3985,"date":"2011-06-02T16:24:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T15:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.betangel.com\/blog_wp\/?p=3985"},"modified":"2012-03-02T16:55:16","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T16:55:16","slug":"may-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betfairtradingblog.com\/blog_wp\/2011\/06\/02\/may-3\/","title":{"rendered":"May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another month has gone and I&#8217;m feeling more optimistic about the year as it wears on.<\/p>\n<p>Each year I&#8217;m deliberately pessimistic at my chances. I&#8217;d rather have low expectations and exceed them, than high ones that force my hand. God knows I spend so much of my life tied up in numbers and so on, I swear I&#8217;m going mad some times. However, I&#8217;m much more relaxed this year about and have spent a lot of time doing new things; it seems to be helping! I&#8217;m very driven, but by the need to explore new frontiers. Like any explorer, every ocean sailed leaves me the question of &#8220;What&#8217;s on the other side of this land?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been busy exploring some new land this month on betting exchanges. Nothing has come of it just yet, but its has thrown up some interesting material already. I made a loss on all these new strategies, but that&#8217;s fine. I now have an understanding of what I am looking at. My next step is to refine the process to cut out the biggest losers, this will tip me nearer a profitable strategy. Where those occur is obvious from the data I have collected. You should always be exploring. If you stand still in this game you will soon get caught. Keep testing new ideas, thoughts and processes. I use the spreadsheet function on Bet Angel to test stuff nearly every day.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pleased about May, not only did I manage to avoid my jinx this year, but I actually had a pretty good month anyhow. I wasn&#8217;t really expecting that, as I had a cracker last year and matching that was an outside chance. But I did it!<\/p>\n<p>June will be different, I had a quiet time last year and nothing really fell into place. As a result I have marked down my expectations this year. But I also have a wedding to attend in June, many miles from my base in the UK. Therefore I owe it to my friends to not touch the markets while I am away. 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