so let me take you back nearly two decades two decades ago I was still in a
normal job for want of a better word but I had this dream of trading on Betfair
for a living and it took a few steps to get to that particular point but let me
tell you about my first year of trading on bed fare please like and comment on
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have more detailed videos so in a previous video I had talked about you
know what you're interested in my first year on Betfair so that's what I'm going
to talk about in this video and I'm gonna show you or give you some insight
into stuff that was going on around that time and how things evolved from there
now it's important to remember that the first year that I had on their phone
will probably be very different from yours
because betting exchanges weren't very well known strategies weren't very well
known there was no software and there are all sorts of other mitigating
factors as well if you start trading now you're going to be several steps up
because there's information available as liquidity on the exchanges the software
available there's quite a few strategies and tactics out there although some of
them I do question but you know you have several steps on however you know the
sort of experience that you'll go through will probably be similar to the
one that I went through I made the leap out of a normal job into trading
full-time at a time when nobody did that and everybody thought I was completely
crazy however I obviously had the foresight to be able to sort of get
involved and to give it a good go but let me talk you through the experience
of what happens how I did and how things sort of evolved from there so
necessarily the first place you up start is with the launch of Betfair you you
could actually wind back prior to the launch because my interest in betting
exchanges came around from being involved with an internet company an
internet service provider I was involved with an Internet service brighter in the
midnight I've been messing around on Presnell
then CompuServe and then the internet for a large number of years and I could
see what was about to happen with the internet and I throw out my life you
know I've been quite good at catching these waves and repeatedly I've been
looking at technology and advances and trying to get involved with them
at early stages however and even with the Internet service provider you know
it's not that easy having a good idea is one thing actually doing something about
it is another and making it a success is something you know completely different
altogether so the Internet service provider could see what the internet was
tick knew all about it tick understood the technology tick but the picking
right company cross doing it at the right time cross making it work across
there didn't work out for me unfortunately um however you know
everything that you do will catapult you forward probably in ways that you don't
understand so my involvement with Internet related stuff allowed me to
merge that into other knowledge that I had in previous jobs and push myself in
the direction of dealing with companies that were involved with the Internet and
part of that was going around looking at technologies that were developing and of
course one of those emergent technologies was peer to peer networks
and one of those peer to peer networks was the betting exchange so I knew about
betting exchanges before they had even been created but when the betting
exchanges came online I joined up with them immediately and that was how I got
started I was the early adopter Betfair open for business on the seventh of the
six I have covered this in some other videos but they did a press release
talking about the death of the bookie and how peer-to-peer technology was
going to replace the bookie if you look at all of the technology that's out
there across the internet that's more or less what it's done it's sort of
collapse the old model of having loads of intermediate trees into you and the
company and they're basically the proposition was that's what was going to
happen to the betting market so yeah Betfair open for business on the 7th of
signal that's when they have fish launched and it took me precisely 11
days to set up an account with them so but but the thing is you know think
about this as well it wasn't just bet fair that I said something I can with I
set them up with just about everybody that had the word internet on it or in
those days they used to prefix everything with an E
it was Eason II whatever so yeah I basically joined up to all these
services I had no idea who the winner was going to be at that particular point
in time but I signed up too and and when you look back I mean actually I
preferred there was a platform out there called flutter and the concept of
flutter was you actually communicate with the person that you're play
something better so you place a bet upon England you need some say England going
to absolutely you know crush their opponents today and then somebody you
would place the counter bet where they put a little note on there going no
they're not you know the Spain are far too strong or something and then those
two bets would get matched and you would exchange a little note with it as well
and I quite like that added a little bit of something to with the bets that you
were placing however you know you had flutter and you had bet fair both of
them were quite big at that particular moment in time but Betfair took over
flutter I think technically it was a merger but like with a lot of mergers
you tend to have in a bigger partner and the bigger partner was bet fair so that
was probably one of the most strategically important things that
happened early on in the industry was bet fair taking out flutter bet fair
went off and raised money got some additional funding and it was that that
they used to buy flutter and that's the you find that a lot with startups that
if you have more funding than your opponent then you can either take them
out without to compete them that's what happened very early on within the
betting exchange industry there were hundreds of these models and and they
all started to sort of consolidate back into a smaller number and some of them
had a bumpy path and some of them didn't so yeah there were many many many around
at that particular moment of time and what you see now in the market are the
survivors because of all the hundreds that started gradually over time lots
have gone out of business merged closed whatever and what you see now are the
the winners in that very long attritional game
so yeah I preferred flutter but where I started really was with our Bing so when
you look at our Bing you tends to if you look at some of the early spreadsheets
that I'd done what I was doing was basically matching off of positions on
the exchange with bookmakers and I was doing that on flutter I was doing it on
Beth I was doing it on many different platforms across you know everywhere
that I could and that was the most obvious place to start with me and when
we look at what I was doing around this particular period it was pretty similar
to what you see sort of with match betting apart from you know I was doing
our IRB and one of the issues that you have with that is that very often you
can find that a there is risk involved within that in terms of people not
willing to take your bets or yeah amending terms or odds after the
situation or not paying out I was one of the biggest problems I had when I was
our thing was both bookmakers not paying out refusing to pay out delaying
payments some things never changed today but it was really still a pipe dream
back in 2000 I was doing all of this sort of work having between difference
entities but really seriously was I thinking about you know really going
full-time not particularly because I had a decent job and when you have a decent
job and all of those things and a young family it's not something that you
really think seriously about doing it's it's a pipe treatment something that's
up there did you sort of think about it could be possible if there was scale but
there wasn't even see how there's no liquidity on the exchanges back then so
it was not really an opportunity the only opportunity would have been to work
for one of these companies and hope that they turn into a much bigger one but as
I've said before even that carries quite a bit of risk so the big breakthrough
came really in 2001 when during the budget Gordon Brown stood up and
abolished betting duty a lot because of the internet a lot of bets were being
taken away from the on course activity and through establish outlets and a lot
of them were going offshore to avoid betting duties so as a
consequence there was a mismatch in the market for the Chancellor at that time
decided to address that mismatch and abolished a betting duty so that for me
was a big shout out to the fact that there was a lot of potential from this
particular particular period going on and also when you look at the growth the
exchanges were seen you could see that there was potential to go there now
there's an important lesson for you here because it doesn't matter what you do at
any point in your life they're always going to be risks attached and it's
natural for you and for your mind the psychology behind it to fear change and
to fear big changes so leaving a job to do this full-time is a massive
commitment and also it carries risks as well but one of the things that I've
learnt over time is they're very often not doing something carries more risk
and has longer-term consequences that are more negative so it's more important
to put that into perspective people often focus too much on the negative and
forget the positive and around this time you know I was maturing within my career
and I basically started at a very low level in my career and gradually worked
my way up and up and up to bigger and bigger levels and I was getting pretty
well paid for doing that job Bera minuses 20 odd years ago we're talking
early 2000s here I was getting paid particularly well for the job that I was
doing although the job itself was quite a tough job and involved a lot of a lot
of things so I wouldn't say that it was an easy job
but I'd sort of reached the point in my career that I felt I sort of pushed as
far as I could and for many years that always wanted to do my own thing and I'd
also you know you would work for a company you'd see an opportunity you
would help them exploit that opportunity but then you would reflect and look back
and you sort of think well I did most of that you know I did a lot of work behind
that I created the opportunity and you end up with that feeling that you're
always doing that for somebody else and I began to lose the fear for going out
and trying something on my own I just needed an opportunity to really go for
it full time and it turned out that because of
all of those things reaching a point at that particular moment in time that
opportunity were spec fare bizarrely but of course everybody thought that that
was you know just the silliest thing that they ever heard and of course
nobody had ever done this before and you know it was going to be a really big
jump at this particular point in my career I had a young family I was
getting paid particularly well and there I was going to abandon it all for
something that you know just seemed absolutely ludicrous at the time -
absolutely everybody there was very few people that could understand what I was
going on about so yeah I made that big jump and decided that I should go out
and make a go of it and I'd sort of thought that if it didn't work out but
then because I'd held senior positions and stuff before it probably wouldn't be
a problem getting back into a role and also I felt I needed to make a few life
choices at that point because when you do a big job is sort of swallows up
everything absolutely everything from dawn until dusk almost seven days a week
it's impossible to do a big job with a decent salary without having to throw
all of that commitment behind it but that's actually no different from
working for yourself or running your own business it really is no different apart
from you get a bit of autonomy you live and die by your own decisions you're not
subject to internal politics all of those things and that's what was driving
my decision really as I thought you know if I'm gonna do something I really need
to do something you know all of these opportunities I've seen all these
companies have worked for all of the work that I've done why you know
shouldn't I just give it a go myself why would I not do that so I did do it but
the markets were still sort of relatively immature and also my trading
was pretty immature as well so I had a small bank to start with because of my
previous experience with football I knew the football markets pretty well felt
that I could probably get a bit of an edge by doing something in football so
you know football was one of the places that I started trading on and that was
okay but nothing spectacular I didn't have a particularly big Bank I started
from pretty much zero I think I initially funded my account with the
bath and pound but yeah I was working in
those markets doing small trades and teasing characteristic market you've got
to remember now that those markets back then were nothing like the markets that
you see now they were quite immature they weren't particularly liquid and you
know there was a lot of I'm just trying to think how I best summarized it they
probably say that they are nothing like they are now in terms of the way that
they function and work but the markets got much more competitive as time has
gone on but there's much more liquidity so there are many more niches in the
markets nowadays and there weren't when I was around there's three or four
vanilla strategies that you could use and you would have to do them to the
best of your ability and see if you could squeeze some money out of the
market now the funny thing is I started writing about trading and I was doing
presentations at financial exhibitions around the 2004 2005 period but when you
look at a lot of the strategies that people talk about now they come from
that era there's been very little original content that I've seen in the
last few years that tells me that there are people out there that are being
particularly progressive because you know I recognize a lot of what I was
saying in 2004 2005 in videos articles that I see nowadays which is which is
quite weird really because obviously over that period of time I've developed
progressed and matured and the interesting thing is that have a look at
how it changes in terms of the way that I have progressed over a period of time
so when you look at some of the early traits that I've done you sort of see a
bit of everything because a bit of horse racing and as I've said in some previous
videos I used to do a lot of a national markets I did a lot of financial market
trading when I first went full-time and that was to see you know I sort of
hedged my bets about for want of a better word and if you I was doing a bit
of writing for a financial magazine I was doing a bit of trading on financials
and I was also doing the bet fair trading stuff as well but the
interesting thing is because of my link between the two if you look at those
piell's around that period you'll find that
our financial markets pianos within there and the interesting and curious
thing about that is watch how it changes because there's a little bit of racing
there's some football in there and then there's financial markets trading but if
we then move forward a little bit then you can see that the more racing is
coming into the mix so why was it that I got interest in racing I knew nothing
about racing I had no specialist knowledge but the market was absolutely
huge it was billions and all of the other markets I was in like the
financials were really not doing a great deal of money I mean if you look at a
detailed ledger that I kept for my financial markets trading stuff on their
fair you'll see that I was still doing quite a lot of money you know there's
about 200,000 pounds staked through that particular market its profitable you can
see that I'm measuring various different aspects of the market and the way that
I'm actively trading it you could probably pick out the sort of strategy
that I was using there but the problem with that market is it didn't really
grow and I kept looking at racing and racing was constantly in front of me on
the markets that's obviously where a lot of money was bet and the markets are
actually huge so I knew that I had to get involved with racing um so you know
wined Ford a couple of years later and you can see that my P&L on that day
there was no football there was no financial stuff it was all racing
because I knew if I sucked racing and I could effectively trade racing which was
the biggest market by far then I would be able to make a living just doing that
just by effectively gambling on racing so that was my motivation for moving
into racing of course now there are many different markets that you can pursue
that you have quite a lot of liquidity Racing is still right up there but there
are plenty of markets that you can choose if you want to carve out a niche
in that particular market but what happens to me was as I started to focus
more and more on those particular markets everything began to grow a
little bit but also my skill and knowledge within that market started to
grow so I went from this process of not making any money at all
I'm just dabbling around in the markets trying to what figure out what on earth
was going on with them to getting a bit more knowledge to being able to trade
them more effectively and then it was a case of generally becoming more
consistent but also you know you started to up the targets bit so you know first
of all it was like just try and break even try not to lose any money then it
was a case of I wonder if I can just squeeze a hundred pounds a day out of
these markets and then it was when you break that barrier I was like I wonder
if I could get 500 and then you think I wonder if I can do a thousand a day but
of course you know all of the targets mix and match and change and flop around
depending upon what you're attempting to do and how you're attempting to do it
and what stage of the career you're at and whether it's your normal career
trading career that's all going to be different for every single person when
you first start out trading but I remember you know Adam Todd's was
posting piell's talking about doing twenty thousand a year and at that
particular point I was trying to get about twenty grand a month because I
thought you know how hard and far can i push this how you know much can I lift
this what can I achieve how can you know how can I achieve something special I
didn't want to just be able to trade I wanted to do something special something
that somebody had never done before and that's pretty much been my mantra all
the way through my entire career discovering new things getting to grips
with what I can see in front of me and trying to push the boundaries of what's
possible as much as I possibly can so you know when you look at the equity
curve for my first year you know you could count my first year on bear fur as
being any one of the things that I've talked about already it could be when I
first joined in which case that would be quite disappointing PNL it could be from
you know when I first went full-time which would be a little bit better or it
could be when I started trading racing full-time but I count the first year
really as being when I decided to start doing it seriously and when I'd left my
job now I don't have records for the first 24 weeks or so or detailed records
because I was messing around effectively but if you look at this equity curve
that I'm about to put up what you'll see is that for the first part of that year
I did 16 grand and then you can see the equity
curve exploded effectively upwards from there and that was when I started to do
trading a bit more seriously and looking at racing and other sports and trying to
bring in more things from the mix but the interesting thing about the graph is
this was just the start because this was pre bet angel and the more I traded and
the more effort I throw into it the more I could see what the potential
opportunities for I just needed a platform on which to do them so this was
just the start if we wind the clock fort and start looking at when I was getting
most fists sophisticated and I really had sussed what was going on with racing
and then throwing in bet angel into the mix then everything goes stratospheric
from that particular point onwards because then a whole range of strategies
open up to me and things just became generally that much bigger so yeah you
know when I first started I remember hedging my bets a little bit I didn't
have any preconception of what I wanted to do but the only thing that drove me
really was that I just left a really well-paid job so I you know sure as hell
needed to make up the income somehow so that was a motivating factor for me when
I first started but really the first year was a case of me finding my feet
trying to do something consistently and then sort of starting to build from
there but the interesting thing that I found
was that always worried about what could go wrong
prior to me making that leap but in fact what actually happened was when I
actually sat down and started doing it all these opportunities open up in front
of me and then you know of course you throw bet angel into the mix and then
suddenly even more opportunities opened up so in hindsight the thing that I was
worried about the most was you know it being a failure and this big leap being
an absolute disaster but what I hadn't thought about was the other side of the
equation all of the things that I would discover as soon as I started doing it
seriously and the fact is when you do start doing something seriously in you
throw love energy and effort into it and you'll really begin to find the true
opportunity and up until that point there's no way that you can ever quanta
or write a nice little business plan or tell you about it it's only when you
actually start doing it and start making progress towards those goals that you
really begin to understand where the opportunity is so anyway I hope that was
interesting for you but that's a reflection on my first year of bed fair
trading and how I got there
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