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Just another beginner aiming to succeed in horse racing trading

TwinDrake

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Greetings to all forum members.

I've long been fascinated by the subject of British horse racing, but as a non-native English speaker, for a long time I found it difficult to access useful information and learning resources.

Last year, though, YouTube suggested the Artimus Paint channel to me, with its series of horse racing videos. I then bought his book, "Directional Trading on Horse Racing", which really inspired me to study the world of horse racing in depth. Modern technology has also made it much easier to get high-quality translations of material.

For the past two months, I've been trying to select two to five races each day and trade them pre-off. The results have been positive so far (my test bank has grown by 30% in that period), but sometimes I come across markets where the price movement seems completely illogical—even after accounting for the possibility of insider information.

That’s why I plan to start a thread on this forum where I will analyse races whose market behaviour doesn’t make sense to me and ask for advice from more experienced forum members. Perhaps I’m missing some important factors.

I try to follow the 10,000-hour rule and I share Sir Winston Churchill’s opinion: “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”
 
That'll be interesting, TwinDrake. Post away, you couldn't be in a better place to hear some theories (or facts) on what's happening.

You'd probably get some theories on old results/trades if you've kept a record.
 
Greetings to all forum members.

I've long been fascinated by the subject of British horse racing, but as a non-native English speaker, for a long time I found it difficult to access useful information and learning resources.

Last year, though, YouTube suggested the Artimus Paint channel to me, with its series of horse racing videos. I then bought his book, "Directional Trading on Horse Racing", which really inspired me to study the world of horse racing in depth. Modern technology has also made it much easier to get high-quality translations of material.

For the past two months, I've been trying to select two to five races each day and trade them pre-off. The results have been positive so far (my test bank has grown by 30% in that period), but sometimes I come across markets where the price movement seems completely illogical—even after accounting for the possibility of insider information.

That’s why I plan to start a thread on this forum where I will analyse races whose market behaviour doesn’t make sense to me and ask for advice from more experienced forum members. Perhaps I’m missing some important factors.

I try to follow the 10,000-hour rule and I share Sir Winston Churchill’s opinion: “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”

This part of the forum is a f$%^ing conveyor belt of idiots. If that offends some people, please rest assured that's how it was intended.
 
This part of the forum is a f$%^ing conveyor belt of idiots. If that offends some people, please rest assured that's how it was intended.

There is so much to say about that which I'll struggle to articulate in a way where I dont get myself in more trouble than you 😂
 
As a side note new member Drake, Slim welcomes everyone with a frying pan to the face don't take it personally.

Welcome on board and join the rest of the new wave.
 
This part of the forum is a f$%^ing conveyor belt of idiots. If that offends some people, please rest assured that's how it was intended.
[SaveGet]No manners, but what a critic.

Once again, perhaps not how I would have phrased it, but I do get the impression there have been multiple new members lately with zero intention of actually two-way street engaging with the existing membership and 💯% intention of starting some unilateral betting thread everyone is expected to visit every day to lap it up.

I'm not sure what I find more puzzling - the number of newcomers doing it or the number of existing members welcoming it.

Takes all sorts, I guess, and each to their own.

Thank goodness for the newcomers who simply want to get straight onto General Racing Topics and start mixing it with the great TH Massive, that's all I can say.
 
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Thank goodness for the newcomers who simply want to get straight onto General Racing Topics and start mixing it with the great TH Massive, that's all I can say.

The problem can be the divide between people who want to discuss racing and find bets using some form of humanity and the flow of new members that seem more modernised and reduce the game to data input and output some sort of binary code/ algorithms sort of stuff that goes well over my head. Whilst I appreciate it might work its not very good for discussion unless you are like minded and for me it certainly sucks the fun/sporting element/ social element right out of the game regardless or not of whther these things work and make money.

I'm just a dinosaur and part of me knows I should really adapt or go the way of the dinosaur but the other part of me knows if this is the future of punting horses then I'd rather just end up a fossil.
 
As I've said when commenting on this before I liken it to moving away from a communal forum to everyone sat in their own little studio flat (thread) churning out bets and trades and others being expected to watch.

To me it's anathema - simply not what a forum is about.

I've nothing against these people personally - I don't even know who they are - but in my book anyone who doesn't participate in the discussions on the wider forum isn't really becoming a member in any real and meaningful sense.

Maybe that makes me a dinosaur too!
 
In my local its a bit more like the Salem witch trials. We stab you first...to see if you're a c**t ...now if you survive ....then you're a c**t! ....if you bleed to death where you lay then you were a a damn fine fella.
 
When I was persuaded to join this forum I was told that it was a very friendly group that welcomed everyone but is proving anything but tonight. I certainly do not envy MisterB for who I have the utmost respect (my dealings with have always been open and fair) his job if this kicks off........I agree it does look iffy but surely the law of the land is innocent until proven guilty .............................good night off to watch the football might look in at half time 😬
 
Fair point Gordon I keep thinking about putting Slim on ignore but he puts food on the table.

Slim = Winning C**t!

My morals only stretch as far as the next pound notes.
 

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