Liquidity? It's a drought.

Traded the Wigan v Chelsea match this afternoon and made £56. Ten minutes after the Man City v Southampton game had started, I sat down again to try and trade this too. As I'm sure most of you will know, Betfair was down.

Oh well, I said to myself, this gives me a good opportunity to try Betdaq out again. Last time I checked, the liquidity was appalling, but given that Betfair was offline and the champions were playing, I suspected things would look much better.

Tumbleweed. As you can see, life over on the Purple side of the street is still incredibly poor if you are a football trader. I take a look every now and then on Betdaq, but for my style of trading, I need decent liquidity. This is just a non-starter.

It's 4:20 now. Perhaps Betfair will come back online before the match finishes. We'll wait and see.

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Update:
Well, I came in from the garden to catch the second-half of the match, and Betfair was up and running again by then. I thought that it may still be dodgy (which it sometimes is) but decided to try and trade the second-half anyway. Finished the day with almost the same profit as the day before.

Cracking game of football in the second-half, and I almost heard myself saying "Olympics? What Olympics?"


Football: £106.94 | Tote: |  Total P&L:  £106.94 

 

Football Showing 1 - 6 of 6 markets

Market Start time Settled date Profit/loss (£)
Football / Man City v Southampton : Correct Score 19-Aug-12 16:00  19-Aug-12 18:02  41.05
Football / Man City v Southampton : Over/Under 2.5 goals 19-Aug-12 16:00  19-Aug-12 17:34  8.98
Football / Wigan v Chelsea : Over/Under 4.5 Goals 19-Aug-12 13:30  19-Aug-12 15:22  11.10
Football / Wigan v Chelsea : Over/Under 3.5 Goals 19-Aug-12 13:30  19-Aug-12 15:22  15.56
Football / Wigan v Chelsea : Over/Under 2.5 goals 19-Aug-12 13:30  19-Aug-12 15:22  -10.46
Football / Wigan v Chelsea : Correct Score 19-Aug-12 13:30  19-Aug-12 15:22  40.71