Monday, 3 August 2009

F*%# It - I Feel Better Now

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My son has been staying with me for a few days, and made the observation that I tend to shout and swear a lot when things aren't going ...
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Saturday, 1 August 2009

July Report

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This will be very brief. As expected, July wasn't the most spectacular of months. With a big hit from the Premium Charge on the 1st, se...
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Thursday, 30 July 2009

Back To Reality

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Back from the Mayan Riviera and I bring great news.  The world will NOT be ending on December 21st 2012 as supposedly prophesised by the ...
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Tuesday, 21 July 2009

Summer Holiday

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There will be a lack of incisive, sharp, brilliant and witty posts for a few days as I am off on my holidays to the Mayan Riviera. A though...
Saturday, 18 July 2009

Get Smart

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The next time someone says they can't master exchange betting, you can tell them that a new study has shown that the brain is like a mu...
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Thursday, 16 July 2009

Humans 0 Rats 1

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So why did do many people have trouble working out such a seemingly simple problem? (See previous post). It appears that "our brains a...
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Monty Hall

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No doubt most readers are familiar with the Monty Hall problem, so bear with me while I repeat it. The reason is that I was reading an arti...
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Wednesday, 15 July 2009

ASHE Wednesday

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I do like my stats, and today there is a report out from the Office for National Statistics' Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE)...
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Monday, 13 July 2009

Unlucky Sunday 12th

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Well, all in all quite an eventful weekend. Saturday saw my third best day of the year with a nice basketball trade proving very profitable...
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Saturday, 11 July 2009

Betting Quote

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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that's the way to bet - Ring Lardner

Laying Alan Keyte's Tips

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One of the longer running threads on the Betfair forum appears to be coming to an end. The original poster, unionjack, started the thread o...
Wednesday, 8 July 2009

Recklessness, Weetabix and eBay

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I am noticing a certain gung-ho approach creeping in to my investing of late. For the last two Sundays, I have lumped a few hundred on the ...
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Value

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There is some complete nonsense written on the Betfair forum. The subject of value comes up regularly with people who really should know be...
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Saturday, 4 July 2009

Betfair Forever

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A poster on the Betfair forum wrote that " this [Betfair] is the ONLY betting exchange and forever will be so" Nonsense. There...
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Friday, 3 July 2009

We Are Not Amused

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To the surprise of many, Andy Murray lost in the semi-final today. At 1.35 pre-game, against an experienced player, this was never value. I...
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Wednesday, 1 July 2009

Fortune And Misfortune Are Two Buckets In The Same Well

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Thanks to Tommy Haas, Andy Roddick and Serena Williams my trading month is off to a good start even if my account remains in negative terri...

June Report

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As of a month ago, June was my lowest performing month. Was. After a month where I could hardly do a thing wrong, I had my fourth best mont...
Tuesday, 30 June 2009

Back To The Drawing Board

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Now that my dream of becoming a multi-millionaire within a year by laying horses has been shattered, I am having to revert back to my origi...
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Monday, 29 June 2009

Elliott Short Of A Few Brain Cells

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I was going to write a post suggesting that the article in yesterday's 'News' of the World was perhaps not quite true (someone b...
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Sunday, 28 June 2009

Don't Mix Religion And Sport

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The result of today's Confederations Cup was as expected, even if the manner of victory wasn't. The USA actually looked half dece...
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