I'm lucky to have ended the day having traded at all > Family and editing taking priority.
Luckily managed to finish the video, get it uploaded and spend some time with my wife and daughter.
After eating tea together and having my nails painted and eye shadow applied the little en went off to bed so I cracked open a Hazy Jane (which has led to 6 as I type) finally sat down and logged onto Betfair.

I had a quick look through the data sheets > nothing doing there, I was ready to leave the football completely until I had a glance.
Europa League matches > Goals flying in > Time to scalp some goals.
In between scalping goals (multiple browsers open) I profiled/monitored the markets of the final few greyhound races of the day and set about finding dogs to place in the place market.

Had some success with the hounds including 2 winners, also laid the HT correct score on the Sporting Lisbon match.
Booooooooom!!!!!!
May have risked a little more with regards to scalping than the 5% we preach (not much more mind) but for 1-2 mins risk in the market after a goal I was confident of getting away with some green for a few mins work.

All in all considering I was actually going to disappoint you all and not trade a thing on Day 1 I'm happy I found the time and made some profit, also have 1 trade still not settled, Laying Over 3.5 goals on the Atletico Catarinense v Avai but I will count that in tomorrows P+L
Bank has grown bring on tomorrow.
The Only Way Is Up, BAAAAAABEEEEYYYY

Having a limited bank and only risking 5% of total bank at any one time means I could only use the minimum stake that Betfair would allow which was £1. With this in mind, I ruled out using the lay market or any sort of scalping, I wanted to pick a reverse forecast on the dogs but this would of been a risk of 10%, so the horses it is.

To give me the working capital I need to trade the dogs, I will need to back horses in order to get over that £40 I need to start on the reverse forecast on the dogs. I start looking over the days horseracing . Using the racing post website I start by looking at Newcastle, nothing takes my eye. So I move on to Sandown, as I look over the race cards the is a horse I like. Its a 6 horse race with 2 non runners, 4 horses is only 3 points of failure so I look into it more. The RPR(Racing Post Rating) puts me off, but looking at the pervious races. it seem this horse struggles in the last 3f but does okay to that point. Bun Doran runs at 2m+ for his staple race, also his 100% Point To Point and 100% National Hunt Flat record has me enough to place my £1 5% stake on.

Bun Doran races out the back, this has me a little worried, but trust the process. The horse is ridden well in the last 3f and the last jump seals the lead, if he can just hold on till the line then profit is made. Strong run out in the end and Bun Doran wins by 1 1/2 lengths (ish). BOOOOOM £10.72 Profit.

Right time to start looking over the next lot of races. I find nothing more at Sandown, so I move onto Leicester. After spending about 20 minutes looking at all the races, I find nothing that I'm keen on. So I move onto Chelmsford, First race of the day at 17:30, being a 5f race, its all about the sprint. To be a good sprinter you need speed and those who carry less weight run quicker, Dalby forest as the lightest horse of the race, mix that in with the better RPR then the fav. Looking like a strong contender. If this lands. I wont need another trade for today.

I have spent so far about 2 hours looking at horses. This would make this my last trade of the day as anything more would be outside of the realistic free time, someone with a real job could spend. The race is off and Dalby forest runs in well and comes into it own in the last 1f. BOOOOOM 14.23 Profit.

That's me done for the day, a good opening day has allowed me to double my bank and opens so many more trades for tomorrow. I didn't trade the football as no games matched my strategies for the bank size I have.

Happy with the first day, looking forward to trading more markets tomorrow. Should see a pickup in the football and have a USA horse racing strategy I would like to start using again.

Tomorrow we can make some traction.

Today I decided to do things the other way round, knock some trades out in the morning and enjoy the afternoon. Had my first ever taste of Yo Sushi this evening, Sushi isn't really my thing and I wasn't overly looking forward to going but my sister and nieces are down from Scotland for the week so it's always nice to get out and spend time with them (they hoover sushi up like Tony Montana sat in his office) I was boring and had Katsu Chicken Curry washed down with two Asahi's > Shite beer > It's all they had.

I digress.

Back to my trades.

As I didn't have time to sit and profile/watch the dogs all afternoon I focused on the tennis.
I began looking for opportunities to Lay False favs and what I mean by this is Underdogs pre match that win the first set, this dramatically crashes their price and gives great angles to Lay them for next to nothing before the start of the second set.
I managed to find a couple of these occurrences and take advantage and one didn't as the underdog went on to win the second set (it happens) so I bailed for a loss mid second set.
For the last two tennis trades I changed tact as the players were a higher caliber > Back the servers in their service games and build some green on each player until I was ready to Lay one of them in the second set.
Building green on them gave me the advantage of Laying them in the second for a generous amount without risking the bank. After two successful Lays and the odds drifting right out (Aaron jumping on one with me in DMs) £36.94 later I was done for the day. Trading tennis is fucking awesome

After said Sushi ^^ /Katsu Chicken I came home opened a real beverage thought I'd check the football for viable matches/entry points to add to the coffers, nothing really jumping out at me with regards to SHGs, the only two matches to catch my eye were the Augsburg v Hoffenheim game and the Sassualo v Napoli match.

Now both of these matches looked great for having many goals in the game but not SHGs.
Let's change tact again...
At the kick off of the second half I set about scalping the Under market above the current score, very dangerous to do this as one goal wipes you out but with a £5 stake dipping in and out of the markets I built some green until I was ready to fully hedge out > £7.43 profit including last nights Lay Over 3.5 goals on the Atletico Catarinense v Avai (Hadn't settled) and both games this evening combined scalping from the 45th min to the 55th min on both.

Very happy with Day 2 let's see what the weekend brings with the football

Excited to start the second day with the balance of £44.95. This gives me a maximum stake of around £2.25. Which is perfect for my love of the greyhound reverse forecast. Time to load up the Trading The Market greyhound stats page (Trading The Market Academy) along with the Horse Racing | Racing News | Sports News | Racing and Sports. Time to start profiling races!

In the interest of keeping this fair. Today I will be simulating having a full time day job and not trading during the hours of 9am to 5pm. The added money in my coffers will help me trade more markets, but I am now limited by time. If I don't hit the ground running today, I could lose enough that I can no longer place the £1 minimum stake on betfair on my reverse forecasts.

With this in mind I slowly trail across all the stats for each race coming up in the next hour, the is nothing like the added pressure of two losing trades resulting in the reverse forecast no longer being available to me.

I have picked the last race at Newcastle. I check it's running on time before I start trading it, nothing worse than trading a race to find out they are delayed by 20 minutes due to track issues. I like to see how the market unfolds and when race start times are dragged out the market becomes a wash with layman's money.

I profile the race; I do this from front to back. I find the winning dog and then look for second and third and so on. I do this without looking at the odds as I don't want to be influenced just yet by what everyone else is thinking. I then check my forecast odds and I think I have made a mistake. So I start the process again and start from the back of the field and try and work out a winner. I get the same result. So I place the trade, I need to trust the process, that's a 3-6 6-3 trade on.

The race goes off and the favourite takes a slight knock and is pushed back into 4th place by the second corner. He is gaining places and by the 3rd corner he has made it into third place and is pushing for second. Last corner and still in third, this will be tight. As they leap over the line the favourite has finished in third. Leaving two outsiders in 1st and 2nd a 11/1 in second and 7/1 in first. I would be disappointed but the winning dog was dog 3 and the dog in second was dog 6. Boooom! The forecast has given me odds of 110. In case you think I mistyped the odds, yes; 110. Easy to see now why I double checked them. This is the best possible start I could ask for today.

Right, now I need to swiftly move onto my next market. It's in the back of my mind that I haven't really traded on any markets so far as I have just betted. Time to put my plan into place on the USA horses. I wont give all away as this is an edge I keep to myself, but I select a race and analyse the prices on the market and select my horse. I try to get in before the market is established and then take the early price. I place my trade, and wait for the price to move. It goes in my favour and I take the £7.16 profit on my repeated scalp. Time to move onto the next race, and try it again. I select two horses and place a small trade on both, one horse drifts and the other coves in. They don't move a lot, but it's enough to get another £6.77 off the race.

Back over to the dogs and I have picked another forecast at 18:02 at Monmore. I rushed this a little and picked two dogs on the forecast when I should have taken more time. To no surprise my dogs finished 1st and 3rd, That's £8 gone and made my last USA horse trade pointless. This laps of judgment is the slap in the face; I need to take it slowly. I dust myself off and move onto the Romford 18:09. I'm just going to back a dog here. The race goes ahead without any incident, I'm yet again blessed with success and the dog wins the short race. Boom! £12.09 back.

#GameFace.

Weekends are my hunting ground.
I relished the prospect of football and the greyhounds.
Yes I can trade throughout the week and make good money but the weekend opens a lot more avenues to exploit due to the sheer amount of events.

I was awake at the crack of dawn (5:40am) eager to do some research on the dogs and football for the day, armed with multiple coffee's I spent the best part of an hour looking over the days greyhounds and football stats using the TTM website.
After analysing and writing down/screenshot most of the selections I was interested in for the day I was on Daddy duties > woke my princesses up and made them breakfast and got my daughter ready for her dance class.
The Mrs. was going out for the day with friends and my sister and nieces turned up to pick the little en up to take her out for the day after dance, that was me free to my own devices.

First up the dogs, I had two wins and one loss on the early races using the place market, the biggest win most notably of the day was 8:27 at Harlow > reverse forecast > Dogs 6 and 1 coming in from a £2 stake returning £114.78 sometimes you get lucky and most of the time research pays off.
What a start (fucking buzzing)
Armed with a few wins and the forecast coming early on the bank had doubled, time to scale up > this allowed me to increase my stakes and liabilities Laying HT correct scores throughout the day of which 7/9 came in > more than happy with that.

Early afternoon I had a swift one in the pub (A Juicy IPA) and shortly after nipped to the local supermaket to buy some Seven Brothers IPAs and as I type this I have polished off the lot (I really need to stop drinking) as much... I blame @MattG2607 for this as he was DMing video's of himself to me opening his fridge to pull out Brewdog Hazy Janes, your such a bad influence and yes Mark shared with me the video you DM'd to him as you panned around to your television (You filthy Boy)
Made me laugh my ass off!!!!!! I'll let you explain that one to the community

Anyway throughout the day 7/9 LHTCS came in resulting in a profit of £61.88 from the football alone.
My daughter arrived home just before TEA TIME, we had a cuddle and watched some YouTube whilst playing on her Tablet, the wife rang me to say she wouldn't be home anytime soon so I let my daughter have a really late night as she is now on half-term (10:30pm she finally went to bed) she's 5, she was wiped, poor thing, but that's now a lie in for me tomorrow

Throughout the evening I set about doing what I do best with the hounds > Backing the place market. All I need is the dog I backed to come in the first 2 places to profit.
As you can see on the P+L I have now increased my stakes to £10 per back as the bank grew over the day.
I won quite a lot and also lost a few as you can see but in summary I was in the zone today (My Happy Place).
Today was a tremendous day, using smaller stakes than normal has been so much fun in truth.
Absolutely fecking over the moon to finish the day with a bank of £300.98.
Tomorrow we go again

Today's roundup is a little bit different. I was always going to trade this week like I trade every week. Okay, I have made some changes, by limiting my stakes and the time I have to trade. Something I would never limit is my mentality. In the discipline video on the academy I talk about having a book of rules. Rules you never break or compromise, this is the key to being a solid trader. I could give the same amount of money and a strategy to 50 different people and some would profit and a lot would lose. They lose because they never built the mental structure needed to be the trader that can weather a bad result.

I started this challenge 2 days ago as of Saturday morning. With a beginning balance of £20 I had a decent challenge on my hands. By the end of day two I had stocked the war chest with a balance of £193, with only taking one loss of £8. This massive 865% increase was far above where I expected to be on day two. I have no target set for the week and as we said, time and time again, James and I are not in a competition with each other.

So I did what I do in any normal week, when I'm smashing my target. I take the day off! Yes you heard me right. I took the day off. I preach all the time about the need to not over trade and to enjoy the process. So practice what I preach. You will be thinking by now, WTF he did not trade anything on a Saturday. Well I saw the messages pinging across discord and in WhatsApp groups, each boom highlighting my notification screen. I would read each message and boom the result myself, but not once did I feel the urge to trade, or feel like I was missing out. In fact the opposite, I felt like these people were missing out on spending time with loved ones, friends and family.

So today I didn't place a single trade or bet, I didn't open up Belfair until I came to do this write up.

I never started trading so I could sit at a computer all day, I started trading so I could leave the life of being bound by the chains of income. There is no point having all the freedom you could ever ask for and then sit in your own house.

I have tried to make this as true to life as I can. If this had been a normal week and I was 865% up, I wouldn't be trading the rest of the week. Be assured that this is the only day off I'm taking this week.

I didn't give in to FOMO, I didn't feel the pressure to trade. Myself and James are not competing against each other. So today we are looking at a different balance, one that means more to me than the bank balance and one that we protect less than the bank we operate with. It's happiness.

Happiness Today: +6 points.

If you force yourself to do it, you won't enjoy it. If you don't enjoy it, you will stop doing it. The closest I came to being a trader today was getting my daily dose of @Mark Cooper and @john_boyuk posts on fomo. If I only get to read two rooms a day it would be these 2. Thanks Chaps

Day 3 End Balance £193.54 and + 6 points of happiness

After yesterdays bank growth spurt, today I have had a bit of a chill day. It's Sunday after all, my daughter wanted to play with all of her new Birthday toys and have fun with Daddy and come 2pm I wanted to sit and watch the Dutch master blasters Manchester United ?? Almost in a title race

So I did a little research this morning on the football fixtures and some hounds. Picked 3 matches to LHTCS on > All three games came in. I backed 10 hounds in the place markets today with 8 winners/places. Job done.

Made Chilli Con Carne for tea > No desert I'm stuffed. Currently sat on the sofa feeling very full and slowly sipping a nice cold alcoholic beverage. Going to leave the trading there for the day unless someone has a tip

On tonight's agenda > finally watch the last episode of Clarksons Farm.
Boooooooooooooooooom!!!!!!!

After self governed day off yesterday, I was ready to hit the markets with my full force. I sit down in the office and turn the computer on just after lunch, it would have been earlier, but I have to admit, I love to stay in bed for that extra hour or two. No matter, Sunday is a day of sports. On this the day of the rest, you can watch football, tennis, horse racing, greyhounds and even basketball. With so many sports to pick to trade, I have to set out a plan.

I open up my trading bible, a brown leather notebook with my definitive list of rules. With a strong black coffee in my hand, I try to map out the day ahead with the markets available for today. Looking across the fields at the back of the house, I sit thinking. A true test of a trader is his ability to adapt to the situation at hand and apply experience and knowledge to a market. All markets form differently and react differently. I'm good at trading what I know, how about I push myself out of my comfort zone! How about I try and trade sports I never trade.

So be it, today will be the variety performance of trading. First thing is first, lets secure some profit from my bread and butter trades, so I don't take a backwards step on profit. Over to the horse racing.

14:10 Punchestown - DOB - Coko Beach - £7.34 Profit
14:20 Musselburgh - Lay - Beat the edge - £10.09 Profit
14:40 Punchestown - Back - Hauturiere - £26.71 Profit
Profit from the UK Horses 44.14
Now time to move on to the dogs.

I place a win trade on a dog, then a place trade as insurance. Then I will add in a reverse forecast as a bank builder. I do 11 races, I leave a couple I didn't like or where I wouldn't have the time to put the research in. I'm very happy they happen over a short period of time, allowing me to pump money across the markets. The results are in and the totals are as follows:-

Win Market - 7/11
Place Market 10/11
Forecast Market 5/11

Total profit from the dogs £82.13

I move away from the computer and take some time to have a walk around the garden while on the phone, I was meant to be taking a minute, but I end up getting drawn in to an issue I have been having with a business I own. 45 minutes later. Resolved and I make my way back to the office to start trading the football. I have spent about 35 mins profiling the Tottenham and West Ham game. I want to start trading markets I don't normally trade, with this I use the data to see what it is telling me. I cant see a first half goal, a derby game with pride as the prize. They will protect the first half. I look over the markets that would fit my belief. I stumble across the Half Time/Full Time result. Boom! I place my trade on the Draw/Tottenham. I scalp this all the way into the second half. Bagging me a £21.51 profit. I scalp the correct score market as insurance. Tracking the 0-0 price al the way down £15.97 Profit. Into the second half I'm going to pull out the Lay the half time correct score for, bagging another £31.18.

Total profit from football is £68.66
Total so far £194.93

I went on to scalp basketball, a sport I have no interest in and made £8.11 and the tennis. I could tell you what I did, but was close to falling asleep during the trade and made £17.72.
I wanted to use my skill set to trade sports or markets I don't trade. Showing that the only excuse for struggling to trade to a profit is ability. To improve your ability, you need to develop, to develop you need to know your weak points. I love discovering where I'm at my weakest, because this is not pointing me towards an area I should stay away from, it's taking me directly to the area I need to develop.

Looking at the messages on the discord. Today's lesson is 'People will always want what you did, how you did it or what you will do next' Very rarely someone will say 'What have I got learn to do this?'.

The questions we ask give us more information than the answers we crave.

Total profit for the day £220.76

Today I decided to take the day off.
I had already planned to do this by last night, my daughter is away from school as it's Half-Term and I wanted to spend the day with my family > Life is too short and on any normal week I will always take a few days or more for myself or to be with my family.

For anyone who has DM'd or tagged me last night or today I apologise for not responding I didn't even switch my computer on until around 4:30pm this affy, today was not about researching, trading or even thinking about making money > today was about enjoying and spending time with the two ladies I love the most. There is always time for making money, but not memories.
Time is precious

"There is a time to go long, a time to go short and a time to go fishing." - Jesse Livermore

If this had been any normal week, I would have been elated with the money I have made so far. Truth be told, I wouldn't start trading again until F1 starts up. I have already taken a day off in this challenge and I think it wouldn't be fair to those who are following along with the challenge to do so again.

I turn on the coffee machine and while it heats up I consider what twist on the day I can implement. I think for far longer than was needed to make my coffee. I want to keep this interesting, you wouldn't be here reading if I did the same thing everyday. As I try to decide on a theme for today, I receive a phone call. It's from a manager of a company I own. He needs my help and it would be easier to do this from the main office, it's not a big problem at all, but one only I can sort.

I make my way to the shower and take my coffee with me, being careful to keep it out of the jets of the shower heads. I play the audio book I'm currently listing to over the speakers while I try and solve my own problem. With time being limited today by others needing it more than me, I have to plan my trading out.

That's it, today will be the day of 'set and forget'. I will place my trades in advance and set the prices I want to enter and exit at. Then close down the market for that. To keep it interesting, I will check the results at the end of the day.

Which markets can I trade with set and forget? I have never done the dogs with it, so that could be a good start. I open tradingthemarket.co.uk and navigate my way across the site to the stats page, along with opening up the Racing and Sports site. I start to profile the races, it's very different when you haven't got an established market. Not only am I going to have to figure out a price I want for a dog the place and the forecast, but I have to make sure the I'm being realistic on what I ask for. I decide on 7 races, more then I normally do, but I'm planning on not being matched on some.

Trades Placed: 7 Win Trades - 7 Place Trades - 14 forecast trades (7 FC and 7 RFC)

Now on to the horse racing, this will be a lot easier for me to trade as I can price horses up in my sleep. The market is so predictable on price, you can spot the margin the night before. So today should be easy with a bit of money in the field.

I placed 5 DOBs in total.
Last but not least, I will chuck a bit of football in, normally I wouldn't bother, but someone on the discord said James will do better then me because he trades football and I don't. After starting my betting career in punting on the football, I was offended. I worked in the football industry for 6 years, working from the bottom to holding a high office in some league clubs. I spent 10 years from the age of 8 to 18 in academy football, before being released due to the overwhelming lack of any ability. I wasn't too bothered, because now I got Saturdays off; in short, football is in my blood.

So let's place some set and forgets on the football markets. Watford vs West Brom. I'm going to go full force on this. I plan on trading the match odds, the over 0.5, O1.5, O2.5, O3.5, BTTS and correct score. Ahhhh fuck it, I will even do asian handicap market for fun. Before I undertook these trades, I spent almost 25 minutes checking this game out, only using 'Aaron's Sheets'. If you can do it in less time than me, then you're doing it wrong.

That's it, all trades placed and I have to rush out the door and crack on with the day.

That's it, discord off, Betfair closed. Only time will tell now. I will come back after the markets have settled with the days profit or loss.

Today's Totals

Greyhounds
Win Trades 4/7 + £32.74
Place Trades 5/7 + £24.16
Forecasts Trades 4/7 + £71.84

Horses
Double or Bust 5/5 +£61.15

Football
0.5 + £10.04
1.5 + £15.98
2.5 + £8.45
3.5 + £7.41
BTTS + £23.35

The biggest limit of today was all the trades being in the market at once, which did not allow for me to trade with as big amounts as I could.

I'm open to suggestions on which limitations I use tomorrow.

Today was me showing the art of the possible, yet again. Time and money is not a limit I recognise. We often make excuses for not accomplishing something due to fear of trying. Time to eliminate tradefright.

Total Profit today £257.12

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced everyday - Jim Rohn

Today I was left to my own devices, my Wife and daughter went out early morning so I had my usual black coffee, watched a little YouTube No BTC got a shower and spent the morning looking at the football, greyhounds and tennis for the day. I wasn't really feeling the greyhounds or the tennis as I didn't want to be tied to the computer all day, after searching the through the data sheets/website I picked out a small 4 fold Acca Won looking at the football for the evening there was a few games on my radar for SHGs but one game stood out from the rest. Liverpool vs Real Madrid.

Although I had no data to go on for this game this game was crying out for goals, being a devout United fan my hatred of Liverpool may have been clouding my judgment but all I could see here was goals and a Real Madrid win.
I thought about this game throughout the afternoon.
How to profit from a game with no data???
I'm expecting goals...
Let's look at the Correct Score Markets.
Enter the Dutching.
So with goals on my mind and a Real Madrid win I proceeded to back all the Correct Scores for a Real Madrid win and Any Away Win, I covered myself by backing Liverpool 1-0 and 1-1.
Total Stake Dutched across all the Correct Scores - £60.
Around 16% of my bank - I was happy with this.
As you know Liverpool took the lead and then went 2-0 up, upon Liverpool taking the lead I laid off the 1-0 score line to leave it with no profit/breakeven and a larger sum on all the remaining scores, as Liverpool made it 2-0 this is where I was starting to feel a little uneasy > I had backed all the scores in favour of Madrid > time to back 2-1 Liverpool and 2-2 as a contingency.
As Madrid pulled it back to 2-1 I laid off the 2-1 score again leaving a bigger profit on the remaining scores, at 2-2 I did the same again for a larger profit on the remaining scores now I'm right where I need to be at HT Come On Madrid.
Boooooooooooom!!!!!!!! 2-3 a goal two minutes into the second half, I'm sensing even more goals, do I take the profit there and then or Lay it off once again knowing I have backed Any Away Win, potentially walking away with nothing on the 2-3 score if it stayed that way or get a handsome payout if Madrid score again - It's a no brainer I laid off the 2-3 score line for breakeven leaving Over £440 on Any Away Win.
2-4 Benzeeeeeeeeeeeemmaaaaaaaaa you little dancer
All the way through I had been on voice chat with Mark and Aaron pissing them off whilst I crunched on crisps all the while giving nothing away as to what I was doing
Liverpool losing > Profit secure I switched off the game, muted myself from voice chat and ate half the Mrs' Pizza apart from a little squeaky bum time at 2-0 the game was perfect for Dutching and Laying off the scores, I'm over the bloody moon with it.
Oh and I had LHTCS on the Gateshead v Oldham Athletic match thanks to the data - Another Boom every little helps.
Total Profit for the evening - £364.87

I started trading today, a lot later than I normally would. It turns out if your a pro trader you still have adult stuff you have to do, like laundry and shopping. I wonder how Caan Berry can manage to fit trading in: he has a swimming pool to clean; I was aggrieved that I had to hover the house.

Since starting this challenge, I have seen a massive spike of people directly messaging me. So, if I haven't got back to you yet, it's because I have a vast amount of messages to look at. To be fair most of them are asking for tips or demanding I tell them why I traded a particular football match when the TTM criteria for a strategy says not to.

Well, I can put this question to bed once and for all. We do it because we have spent 1000s of hours learning to do this. The highway code says the limit of speed of a UK motorway is 70mph. A F1 driver is trained to drive at speeds of over 220mph. You think Lewis Hamilton should only drive around the track at 70mph, of course not. He is a specialist driver, with ability far superior to what I feel would be everyone in this discord. He operates at a level much higher then we can, because he was trained to do so.

He started his learning by karting and then working his way into F3, to GP2, and then to F1. His ability, as much as I dislike the man, is without question. Could I learn to drive like him? Well if I put in as many hours in as he has and could surpass the fear of driving at a wall at 180mph, with only the faith in my brakes to carry me around the corner. I could do the same. Okay, I get he wasn't on the breadline growing up and his parents were the original investors in this hot stock, but we are proving that with skill and a limited bank, this can be done.

People turn up in discord after trading for a couple of years, losing a couple of banks and taking profit from some markets, with the idea that they have gained the skill set required to trade. Well, knowing how to drive a car doesn't make you an F1 driver. No one can teach you to drive a purple lap, by sitting you down in a classroom for a day. You achieve it by training; by learning.

The messages saying that we are not following the TTM criteria, you are correct. We don't always follow what we tell others to do, not because we want to mislead you or take some advantage from your trade. It's because you have spent two years driving at the wheel of a FIAT 500 and we don't want you to drive at a wall at 180mph. We don't operate on the same level. This is a place of learning and developing your skills, without fear of being mocked or ridiculed. You see me rant or lose my temper in the chat. This is not without cause, it's because of bad information or false prophets. People who seem to be experts, but routinely give out bad advice. This is not a place for someone to make a name for themselves or a tipping group. We built this to be a stepping stone for people to get themselves on their own two feet, with the help of the wealth of knowledge in this community.

Right, onto the day's trading. With all this talk of operating at a higher level like a F1 driver, maybe I could replicate that. Pick markets where prices move fast, or events change quickly. How would I go about measuring such markets? How can convey the speed the market was moving at? I can't, but what I can do is only trade stuff that is in-play. Let's do that! More so, how about I only trade an in play event, using only the information on Betfair Exchange and live stream. No other research allowed.

This is going to be tough.

Let's start with horseracing - the sport of kings. I can only start trading a race or looking at the card when the race goes in running. Remember I can only use the race info on Betfair and the live stream to trade the race. I start with the 14:30 at Taunton. I scalp a horse and take the profit. I move onto the 15:15 to do the same; it's a rinse and repeat. Total Profit £33.51 This is hard, but the feed allows me to look at a horse and see if it's struggling. So let's move on to the tennis. A sport I know very little about, I open up a game with lots of money in it and try and make some money. I take £12.43 from it and become so disinterested with the sport - I would of taken the loss just to stop watching it.

Let's give football a go. I often say you can't tell from in-play statistics, but I can trade what people think will happen. This should be fun.

If you noticed I haven't told you the details of which horse I have traded or which tennis game. This is by design, as I won't be taking questions on why I picked that horse or game. Not because I have a secret system, but because I have covered this already in videos and on the discord.

From football I make a profit of £41.72. I could have made much more money today, but I wasn't able to trade with any confidence. Why? Because I did no research, I went in blindly and was only carried by ability. This hindered any form on bank building day; I took more risk today than any other day of the challenge and made less money with a total profit of £87.66.

I didn't feel comfortable going into a trade with no research; I don't know how people do it.

Total Profit for the day £87.66

Well...
Thank fuck that's over with

In truth it's been quite good fun starting with £20 and seeing where Mark and I end up after 7 days.
As I type this I still haven't looked over at Marks thread to see the final figure - Quite excited
I hope over the week people have realised it's not about how much money you have to trade with but how you trade with it, keeping discipline and sticking to your principles.
It's most definitely not how much money you have in your Betfair Accounts but what you do with that matters - Always.
I haven't traded any differently to how I usually trade even with a drastically reduced bank. I have stuck to what I know, what I am good at and the criteria I always use.
This has always stood me in good stead over the years and this week has been no different.
In truth I could have gone to town trading today, instead I went to the cinema this afternoon and watched the new Puss In Boots film with my princesses - If you have kids I highly recommend it, even I was chuckling all the way through.

Today there is no football to even think about trading - maybe the Cup games later tonight in one way or another but I will leave that out of the challenge finale so I threw myself into the hounds and tennis.
I have done nothing different with regards to backing Dogs in the place markets, using the TTM website stats and studying the markets before the races. Resulting in a profit of £258.76 from 19 races.
On the Tennis I have done what I always do, back strong favourites on their service games built up large greens on each player and then Laid Underdogs who won the first set in the second set - So Simple.
Resulting in a profit of £368.47 on 5 tennis matches.

Total Profit for the Day £627.23
Total Profit for the week £1,355.60

"The goal of a successful trader is to make the best trades, money is secondary" - Alexander Elder

Finally the end of the challenge is upon us. If I was to be honest, I would say I'm glad that it has come to an end. I don't trade this much on a normal week, it's become more like a job. I didn't get into trading to work harder. I got into trading to work less; not to trade every day.

There has been no pressure to reach a target this week and truth be told, I had no idea what the amount at the end would be. As I scroll back over the guesses on how much me and James would make this week, I have to chuckle at some of the answers. The reason to get people to guess is because we wanted an idea of what people expect that you can make. Interesting to see the difference between the answers.

The theme for today is stick to what you know, because we should all be doing that. It's okay to learn a new market or sport to trade, but paper trade it until you crack it. So today I will be trading the dogs, but with only the forecast market. I'm going to try and do this in as little time as possible and I will be stopping when I break the 4 figure weeks total. I only need to make £240.92 to seal the day off.

I'm going to start with the dogs and see what I can get out of them before the football starts.

16:45

Right first race. Monmore 16:58 - I spend all of about 5 min looking at this race before the market develops. I open the TTM website for the greyhound timing stats and place that on the screen to my bottom left. I then open the sports and racing site and place that on the screen in the top left. The exchange is open on top middle, discord open on top right and the William hill greyhound racing tv on the bottom right. I use the screen in the bottom middle to operate on and to allow me to open anything ad hoc without covering the screens I need to use to trade.

Right time to place some trades.

I pick the 2 dog and the 4 dog and place a reverse forecast on it. The dogs are being loaded, I pause responding to messages for a second to watch the race. Boom the 2-4 lands. That's £137.20 for that race. Not a bad opening trade for the day.

I then look at the next race of the day which is the 17:03 at Newcastle, where I select dogs 3 and 2 in the reverse forecast. As I finish placing my trade I start to look at the next race, the is a dog a I really like in the next. I pause my research again to watch the 17:03 go off. Boom the second forecast lands. I got lucky where a stronger dog knocked the 2nd fav which allowed these two to edge in the end. Total profit from this race was £237.10

Now I have a dog I like in the next race but I have reached my 1k target I set myself so I do what any good pro trader would do. I close down the exchange and shut down everything else apart from the discord. I replaced the TTM website with the live analytics of the site and the greyhounds TV with Prime Video.

Total Profit For Today: £374.30
Total Time Trading Today: 21 Minutes

Total money for the week: £1,133.38

This challenge was never a boast of how much money we could make; it was to show that you are not limited by a small bank. You're only limited by ability and mentality. Lucky enough for you, these are things that can be trained, developed and learned. Start by asking yourself what have you done today to improve your ability and / or mentality. If you can't answer honestly and you struggle to articulate what was done then, I can tell you, you didn't do enough. Tomorrow is a new day and you can go again, but every day you delay, you're a day further away from your goal.

I await James's round up for today. Once that is done there will be a post from me and James, which you don't want to miss!

Also look out for Aaron starting this challenge in the coming days. We received criticism for what we did for not being realistic. If you felt the same, follow along with Aaron's roundups.

P.S. the first 38 people to message me to ask me why I selected these dogs will be getting booted from the discord