Trading, scratching and scalping

[dannkez2407]

Evening all Long time no speak on here!!!! im well in to the game of trading these days on horse racing mainly but starting to stray towards footy again. what im interested to know is, how many of you wonderful ppl out there are also trading? what software do you use? do you scalp the pre race/match markets? do you trade in play? whats your strategy? i currently scalp the pre race market normally, greening up before the race has started, i have lots of strategies but im looking for others on here to discuss these with........ahhh its good to be back on here. :D:D:D:D

[froment]

Re: Trading, scratching and scalping

ahhh its good to be back on here. :D:D:D:D

There's only one better thing than that: to be always here! :D I have been trading for about two years now, and soon after starting trading, I gave up "classic" betting at all; trading appeared to be more profitable, although requires more time and dedication; it's not that I earn some serious profit - I am overall barelly in positive area, but in any case is better than betting, where I just used to struggle to control my losses, huh. I see, you're trading horses, which I never do, I trade only football, so I can't discuss horse strategies; in football, most of the time I scalp on under markets, and mainly under 4.5; I back unders and lay after odds come in several ticks. From what I have seen, that strategy itself is low risk and low profit, but anyway I think it could be profitable if there was no main traders' enemy - greed. :wall As for software, for a year now, I have been using Geeks Toy, a state-of-the-art trading software, with helpful community gathered around; Geeks Toy is free of charge (both grid and ladder interface), and version 1.1 has just been released, with advanced charting; I don't rely too much on charts, as they show where market has been, but not where it will go, but in any case it's nice tool. If you don't look for Excel integration, I'm sure you won't find better one than Geeks Toy; though, if you want to automate your trading to some extent with Excel, then Gruss is the way to go; it costs 6 GBP monthly, and there is 30 days free trial, which is enough to test it.