Strategies
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How To Laser Target Winners
I’m going to be honest, the subject of today’s post is forefront in my mind because I’ve been developing a tool to make one of the strategies I use a lot easier. I think of it as pattern finding, but patterns may not even be the right word. I’ll leave you to let me know what you think the right…
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A Day At The Races – Ascot Special
I wanted to look at Betting Bounty today. The team behind this service live and breath free bets and the best way to extrapolate money out of the bookmakers. By using clever staking and certain strategy’s the users of Betting Bounty are able to put themselves into positions that secure them a profit time and time again. Today we’re going…
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Betfair SP Portfolio
You may have seen the Race Advisor recently pushing its new service Tipster Portfolio. It’s a great service that shows you which tipsters to sign up to and add to your portfolio. So why is this so great? Using tipsters means that you are relying on an expert to give you tips and show you how to make a profit.…
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Portfolio Corner
As we enter June, the flat turf season kicks in to overdrive with a host of big meetings and festivals following one after the other. When I first started to plan this article I was intent on providing stats and trends for the Epsom Derby and Oaks meeting but looking through my portfolio I have very little to offer that…
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Turn Your Power Ratings Into Odds Lines
A few weeks ago I wrote this post about how to make your own power ratings using a slightly different approach. At the end I promised that I would write another article following on that showed you how to get from what you finished with in that post to your oddslines. And that’s what I’m going to do today. If…
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Portfolio Corner – A Trainer To Follow Right Now
Welcome to ‘Portfolio Corner’ I have been betting horses and sports for a living for a good few years now and my bets are based around systems, profiles, trends and stats. I have over 250 systems. I know that may appear a lot to some, but many are based around individual trainers and operate for perhaps one or two months…
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Finding The Three Best Horses Using PIV’s
I’ve been writing a fair bit about impact, and pool impact, values recently. Last week, on my blog post about creating power ratings, Michael asked me how to go about finding the best three horses using PIV’s (pool impact values), otherwise known as a/e ratios. If you’d like to learn how to make PIV’s then you should check out this…
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Power Ratings, A Different Approach
Following my article about working out the minimum odds you should bet at last week there were a lot of requests for a follow up about how to calculate power ratings. The truth is, there are loads of ways to calculate power ratings ranging from overly simplistic to overly complex. Which is the best? Well, to be honest… none. At…
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Work Out The Minimum Odds You Should Take In Less Than 5 Minutes
Recently I’ve been reading through some old betting magazines. And it was during one of these forays into a magazine that I read Alan Coldricks article on how to convert ratings into odds. It’s very difficult to determine whether a horse is offering value odds, even if you are using a reliable set of ratings. There are a variety of…
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The Cause of 99% of Betting System Failures
Using betting systems is probably the most popular form of finding selections. Also, amongst horse racing fans, the actual building of the systems is very popular. The only problem is that most betting systems fail to make the profits that they’ve promised to deliver. And the primary reason for this is… backfitting. Well, that’s the name that most people use.…
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Make Yourself A Contender Finding Spreadsheet For Betting
I wanted to share something with you today that you could put into immediate effect. Something hands on. And, with that in mind, I started to make a list of everything that would be a useful tool for you to use in your betting. By the end, the list was pretty big, so I would start at the top with…
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Trading – The Simple Approach
There’s no doubt about it that if you’re averse to risk and want to make money from your betting… trading is almost certainly the best route for you to take. Over the years I’ve read pretty much every guide that’s been released and they all follow similar approaches. I know some very high-turnover traders who work in different ways to…
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Patterns And Using Them To Win
It doesn’t matter if you’re building a betting system, form reading, using trainers or some other approach. When you are looking for your betting selections you are doing one thing… …looking for patterns. You’re looking for patterns in historical data to estimate what is likely to happen in future data. The better you are at separating the relevant patterns from…
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Winner Finding Without Thinking – A Strategy
Last week I received an email that was just asking a question but, felt more like a challenge. The question was… “Is it possible to find strong contenders using only a horses lifetime earnings, finish position last time out, performance in last three starts and the horses age” You can see why I thought it was a challenge, and it…
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Finding Winners From The Daily Stat Pack
Every day on the Race Advisor we publish the Daily Stat Pack here. In it you will find all the jockeys and trainers that have achieved a strike rate of 17% or higher on the course that they’re racing at today. This in itself is a very useful report to have every day for a shortlist of jockeys and trainers…
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Less Can Be More
Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information that you need to go through when you’re analysing a race? You’re not the only one. I get it as well. It’s something that we bring on ourselves because we want to get the best results. By wanting to get the best results, and make the most profit possible,…
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Your A…B…C to Finding Profits
It’s been a few weeks since I last dug into some statistics for you, and so I decided that it was time to jump back in today. I want to focus on helping you to find selections as fast as possible (whilst still making a profit of course!) In order to do that I’m going to focus on using just…
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How To Make Ratings Work For You
Todays post is purely due to an email that I was sent by Brian a little while ago. It’s something that really struck a chord with me. The easiest thing to do is to show you what the email said: “ Hi Michael. There seems to have been a lot of emphasis on ratings recently and there are loads out…
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How To Find Improving Horses Using Your Daily Newspaper
So when I say daily newspaper, I really mean website although if you want to use a newspaper you still can. One of the best ways to make a profit from your betting is to find horses that are improving and bet on them before they start winning. As soon as they start winning then the rest of the betting…
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