Well, the first week of the new season where I’m seriously trading, and it’s gone alright with a profit of just under £80. Here’s a breakdown of my trading for week 1:

I’ll provide a table and graph once we’ve got a few weeks under our belts, similar to last season. I’m very happy with the results shown here, but there’s a little something niggling at the back of my mind. And that niggling little something is hindsight. Had I left the trades that I put on before kick-off, I would have made an extremely tidy profit. And that’s really pissed me off. Pissed me off so much that I decided to have a look at my previous trading stats for January through to June 2023. The aim of this research was to see if leaving my initial trade selections would have made me a more profitable trader than actually trading my trade selections (avid readers of this blog may remember me mentioning that I’ll take a look at some point). Turns out that there’s not too much in it. About £100 or so in favour of just leaving my original trade selections alone. Which in the grand scheme of things isn’t such a big difference.

But there is another benefit to just leaving my trades to ride – time and anxiety. I can just place my trades and do nothing – just leave my trades in the hands of the Gods. I can just log in to my Betfair account at 5pm on a Saturday (yes I know not all kick-offs are on a Saturday at 3pm, but you get my drift) and see what profit or loss I achieved that day. I’d be doing something else for the next 2 hours rather than staring at the screen and trading. In addition I wouldn’t have to worry about my trades either and save myself a whole load of anxiety. It’ll be just a case of fire and forget with minimal anxiety experienced. I’ll keep an eye on this research and revisit it again at some point, just to see if it changes one way or the other. I have got some of this seasons data to look at too, so that further research may be visited sooner rather than later. I’ll keep you posted peeps.

Right, that’s it for now. I’ve traded tonight’s Champions League games with dismal results (more on this next week) so I’m already looking forward to the weekend’s games. Hopefully I’ll post something on Friday night/Saturday morning. Until then, may the Lord be with you. Always.