Green All Over

Established in 2008, this blog is an independent, common sense, look at challenges and opportunities in sports and financial investing, with occasional diversions as my mood takes me. I am not a tipster, nor is this a Profit and Loss report either. They are boring.

Thursday, 29 October 2015

BASIC Programming

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A couple of comments on my Trading Superman post , the first contained some clarification from Sheva Wigwam (possibly not his real name) wh...
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Monday, 26 October 2015

Porsche 904

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If there is one day in the year when I might expect this blog to set a record for hits, it should probably be the day the clocks go back. ...

Reductio Ad Absurdum

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My post yesterday included a few lines about meaningless data, and another example reared its head on the Simple Soccer Stats blog . In a po...
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Sunday, 25 October 2015

Perpetual Change

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While catching up with the Big Pairs blog this morning, I noticed that he gave my win:loss ratio post a mention a few days ago: The strik...
Saturday, 24 October 2015

Trading Superman

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The much respected Betfair Forumite Investor stopped by to comment on my Measuring Up - Is This Just Fantasy? post.  The problem with PnL...
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Friday, 23 October 2015

Are You Sitting Comfortably?

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James is concerned that he now has a reputation for addictions to nicotine, alcohol and calories after I published this quote from my last p...
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Wednesday, 21 October 2015

Get Physical

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My recent Time - The Hidden Cost post  and others, have pointed out the huge, often ignored, cost of spending hours trading in-play. The l...
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Tuesday, 20 October 2015

Upwardly Mobile

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Lots of numbers today, and to start with, it appears that I have been selling myself short so far as the hits on this blog are concerned. Si...
Sunday, 18 October 2015

Drip

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As expected, Unknown Trader clarified his intriguing " particular characteristics " reference with these words: Probably my...
Saturday, 17 October 2015

Open Your Eyes

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Unknown Trader is becoming very well known to readers of this blog. He comments on this recent post with: Thanks a lot for the feedback,...
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No Escape From Reality

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I received an email a couple of days ago from the good people at StatCounter whose free service I use to record the hits on this blog. It ma...
Friday, 16 October 2015

Caught In A Landslide

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The Unknown Trader responded to yesterday's post saying: I tend to agree with you on the use of P and L in blogs and that's why I ...
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Thursday, 15 October 2015

Measuring Up - Is This Just Fantasy?

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Green Is The New Black , aka Unknown Trader, commented (via Twitter) on my Time - The Hidden Cost post saying: Nice post, IMO there is no...
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Tuesday, 13 October 2015

Time - The Hidden Cost

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Toymaster77 commented on my Riches to Rags post writing: I have done the same as you as a punter for 30 years and lost constantly. In 20...
Monday, 12 October 2015

Cope Or Flourish, Bitches

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Some of you may have heard of trading psychologist Brett Steenbarger whose TraderFeed  blog has been in the 'other blogs I read' se...
Sunday, 11 October 2015

Riches To Rags

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Peter Webb's latest post is titled "A Fool And His Money Are Soon Parted" an ancient proverb which for me at least, always ...
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Saturday, 10 October 2015

UMPO

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It's been a decent start to the UMPO system ( U nderdogs M LB P layoff in case you were wondering) with underdogs triumphant in four of ...
Wednesday, 7 October 2015

Close To The Edge

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Once again, I am indebted to my old friend Scott for drawing my attention to some breaking news - a sports betting scandal over in the USA. ...
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I have had a life-long interest in sports and after studying Pure Mathematics with Statistics at secondary school, have been fascinated by odds and probability. The first system I came up with was a simple one - back the favourite and double up after a loss until a winner. Simple enough in theory, and I told my Dad about it. Not being a betting man himself, he ran it by some of his colleagues, and came home to tell me that it wouldn’t work because a long losing run would mean that the bank would be empty. Then there was always the possibility that the winner would be returned at odds-on, meaning that the total returns would not match the outlay. Not what a ten year old wants to hear! Only slightly daunted, I then went on a search for the Holy Grail, the secret to riches that I knew was out there somewhere. Finally in 2004 I stumbled across an article about Betting Exchanges and four years later I was able to make a steady profit.
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