This weekend was spent trying out Bet-Trader Pro on my desk top computer running Windows Millenium. As previously mentioned, my current desktop is CRAP, and can't process and run the program sufficiently enough.

I then had to use my wife's laptop, which had an out of date 'Norton's Internet Security' subscription. This thing had heaps of virus's as well as adware and spyware. I've renewed the subscription (the least I could do...) and had to uninstall and install the program again. I then ran a rather lengthy virus scan to try to get rid of these bastard things. Norton claims the computer is still infected with 6 virus's. Great.

Anyhow, this seemed to fix up the program with the slow processing speed of the laptop, as it is running perfectly now.

I was then able to trial Bet-Trader Pro on the laptop.

A few interesting notes to make about BTP. You need to log into the Betfair site; reason being, is that the program syncs with your logging into Betfair, to use your default currency that you place your bets with. In my case, Australian Dollars as opposed to UK pounds. It would have been annoying to find that you can't use any other currency in this program, other than pounds. Anyhow, a large amount of people would be using Euro's, so....

The Betfair interface for horse racing defaults to the top three horses with the lowest odds. This is not the case for the Australian horse racing market. It isn't in any particlar order. That means you need to drag the particular horse or horses' that you want to trade, across the trading screen.

Also, you can't have the same selection up on the screen more than once, as only one screen will operate.

It's interesting to watch the movement of cash coming into and out of each race, and espeicially before a race starts. Also, I don't think there is enough liquidity to sufficiently trade the Australian markets. Shame.