Hello all. Well, I’m a couple of weeks late due to holidays and family commitments, but I thought that I would give a low down on my final two weeks of the season. This is for the FA Cup final and the Champions League final. Overall I managed to make £48.47 from these two matches, and here’s how this amount is broken down:

As you can see, the main contributor to the £48.47 amount is the trade on the outright winner of the CL, that being Manchester City. I typically don’t trade on outright winners, but I just couldn’t see past City winning the Champions League. I did think of doing something for the FA Cup but decided not to. Something I may take into next season, is to possibly look at trading outright winners if the odds are good enough (1.50 upwards). Failing that, I’ll probably just trade the correct score market.

So, how has this affected my over trading journey and profit for the 2022-2023 season? Well, you probably know £48.47 was not enough to take me over my revised target of £500. But I did manage to just scrape over the £400 milestone, which I’m quite happy with. Yes, it’s not as much as what I was hoping for, and the last couple of months I have seen quite the downturn in my fortunes, but if you told me I’d be getting over the £400 mark at the start of the season then I would have been quite happy. Here’s a breakdown of how week 29 compared to my other trading weeks, and how this week affected my overall trading journey:

Well, as you can see it’s been a very mixed bag overall. The first 14 weeks were frustratingly uneventful, and the next 15 were a rollercoaster! I really thought I hit on something brilliant from weeks 14 to 22, but then things came crashing down after this. It was to be expected though, so I didn’t get too disheartened. If this was a smooth progressive line then it might have been easier to take, but you’ve just got to take the highs with the lows. It’s what separates the traders from the non-traders. And I like to think myself more as a trader than not.

Going forward I’m going to be looking at taking the £400 profit from this season and using this as my bank for the next season. I’ll also be looking at building my bank using other methods too, so that come the start of next season, I’ll have a bigger bank so that I can use bigger stakes to achieve bigger profits. What was that saying – “you’ve got to speculate to accumulate”? I’ll be doing exactly that but in a measured way. Ultimately I reckon I’ll be looking at increasing my trades from £25 to £100 come November/December time.

So what will I be doing this Summer now that the season is over? Well, I’ll be looking at automation, so when the new season starts I’ll no longer have to manually place my trades and I can let the automation process do this for me. With having so much free time, it seems the sensible thing to do. This will obviously help with my trading and family time, but it will also help with my technical skills. So going forwards this blog will hopefully concentrate on my automation journey until the new season starts. This should either be a massive success or a miserable failure. Fingers crossed for the former rather than the latter.

Whatever you guys are up to, I hope you enjoy it. Take this time to recharge your trading batteries for the new season ahead, and stay away from trading anything that you’re unfamiliar with. Thank you to everyone who has been reading this blog this season. You’ve made it truly worthwhile, and I really, really hope you join me for next season, or even just check in to see how my automation progress is going. Whatever you do, may the Lord be with you. Always!