About f**king time! We got a nice juicy win people! Our fourth highest since I’ve been properly trading at the start of last season. I knew we would turn a corner at some point, I’m just hoping that I don’t turn too many corners and I start losing again! It was a good win, and the £260 green has certainly helped us in climbing out of the £600 hole we found ourselves in. Here is the breakdown of my trading results for week 8:

As you can see, there were a couple of big wins, with a disappointing result for the Man City vs Palace game. To be honest, I did think that particular match was the one I would have the most confidence in. It just shows you that things are never straight forward in football trading. I did think the odds were a bit short, and I should have looked at laying. It’s certainly something I’ll be considering should I find myself in a similar situation. I don’t particularly like laying at high odds, as if you do end up on the wrong side, you can see your bank suffer incredible damage. But sometimes if there’s value then you’ve got to take it. I should certainly look at different trading opportunities and not just keep to my one particular style of trading. As you can see, I did a little bet on the Liverpool vs Man united game by laying Liverpool at half time. At odds of 1.5 as I thought it was decent value.

Here’s how the profit gained from this week compared to my other weeks P&L totals for this season:

As you can see, that’s made a massive improvement to my current losing situation. I’m still at a loss, but there’s a small light at the end of the tunnel. I would love to go into the new year in profit, but I realise that this is a big ask. I say that, but there’s plenty of football over the festive period, so plenty of opportunities to make that possible. Anyway, here’s a visual update of my trading journey so far for this season:

So, we have our third peak of the season (I’m including week 1 as a peak as I went from £0 to £79) and I just need to try and keep it going. I’m going to try and introduce more manual trades to hopefully flatten out those dips and maximise those peaks. I do like the challenge of manual trading as it really tests me and keeps the brain ticking, but I also love having fire-and-forget trades that I know I can place and just check on them at full time. The manual trading will hopefully help in dealing with the psychological aspect of dealing with a string of losses that can occur with the fire-and-forget trades. As long as they win of course! 

So with that, I’ll bid thee a good night, and hopefully I’ll have some trades for you to look at for the weekend matches. If you are doing some trades then I wish you the best of luck. And may the Lord be with you. Always!