You know what I wish I could do. I wish I could do what I said I’d bloody do and stick to it! In the Sunday mass yesterday I provided three predictions. Two of which came in. Did I actually do them? No! Hey-ho. We move on. I’m not too disappointed as I still had green yesterday, but it could have been more.

For week 2’s results, I made a loss of £106. Here’s my profit and loss results:

I’ll be honest, I probably lacked a hell of a lot of discipline this week. And a lot of that was probably to do with mindset. After mentioning about leaving trades alone, I decided to leave a few of my trades alone, much to my detriment. By far the biggest loss was the Celtic vs Atletico Madrid match. I just got that call completely wrong. I probably judged Scottish football to be in a worse place than it currently is. I should have given Celtic a lot more respect, as they can match the best of them on the European stage. I lumped heavily on Atletico Madrid and it cost me. I should have got out whilst the trade was going against me and saved myself a lot of heartache in the process.

The Liverpool match on Thursday was another bad call. I thought they might have struggled with their weakened team, but they did well, and I didn’t – haha! I just need to start taking it serious and get my head in the right place.

What I will say, is that I wasn’t too far away from a £90 green for the Manchester derby game. I just needed one more goal from City. I could have cashed out for £40 on the 79th minute, but again after last week’s bad calls in coming out of my trades early, I decided to stay in and try and maximise my profit. It didn’t pay off, but I thought it was the right decision, especially as United were losing their discipline and City were confidently going forward.

I think from all these losses and missed opportunities, I just need to learn when it is a good time to stay in the trade, and when it’s good to come out of the trade. It’s a big learning process, and I’m not going to get it right all of the time. But what I can do is try to maximise my profits and minimise my losses as much as possible, which is what I’ll aim to do.

Overall, I’m probably staring at a £30 loss so far this season. I’ll start doing the graphs and tables for week 3 and going forward. Looking at the games this week it’s the cup. I’m not too sure whether to trade these games as the Premier League teams hardly ever treat this seriously. Although with City out of the cup, it’s a very, very good chance for a team to pick up some silverware. I’m going to check the line-ups before committing to any trades. Good luck if you are trading too, and may the Lord be with you, always!