Decided to try Bet Trader Pro on the UK markets on Friday night, which was interesting to say the least. Could only manage to trade one race (...was stuffed by midnight...) in the UK market which had extraordinary amounts of money flowing through it.
Found it very easy to trade this market using my measly AUD$6.00 bet size. No doubt, will be a different story once we I start betting over AUD$100.00 bets. I won't be so cocky.... But, I think I got the theory right, watch the amounts of money coming in on either size, and then make your move.
Saturday, was a piss awfull day, trading the Australian horse racing markets. I didn't realise that my cable internet connection was stuffed, and seemed to be working at only 28kbps speed (at times). I actually lost money due to this problem, as I couldn't lay off a horse, after backing it. Of course, the horse lost....
Checked the Optusnet website, which had a message posted about slow browsing on some international sites. Their engineers were investigating the problem. As of this entry date, this problem has still yet to be resolved.
Tried experimenting with setting up an arb bet for the Hantuchova / Williams tennis match on Saturday night. I had to call Betfair to place the bets, as our stupid 'save us from ourselves' and 'protect our betting industries interests' government won't allow betting in-running on the internet. Wankers. Made $1.00.
Sunday - still no luck with the internet. No wonder these professional traders have backup ADSL lines and extra modems / equipment , phone line to Betfair and prayer mats, just in case things go awry.
Am currently reading a book by the title of: 'Chance'