Same shit, different day. That’s pretty much sums my trading up at the moment. I’m kind of at a loss with the way things are currently going. I posted a blog about 3 weeks ago regarding trusting your system. And boy did I wish I re-read that blog post because I sure could have done with trusting my system this last weekend or so. If I did, I pretty much could have halved my losses for this season, and if I hadn’t reduced my stakes from £20 to £10, I wouldn’t be experiencing any losses at all this season. But, I need to not get torn up at the missed opportunities and just keep going with what I’m doing, because if I did I’d be in a much better position than I’m currently in. And that’s what I’ve got to focus on – not the missed opportunities, but the fact that if I carried out my trades as I should have done, I’d be in a much better place financially. Anyway, enough about that, here’s my results for week 21 & 22:

Week 21:

Week 22:

Well, there’s not too much to mention regarding the trades, as there weren’t really that many trades to go through. The big loss of £100 was down to me carrying on with my ‘City to win’ betting strategy. With Arsenal drawing at City, that was £100 down the drain. I think in total I’m down around £174 by following this trading strategy. If City do manage to win every game from now until the end of the season, then I could possibly post a small profit. But it will be a small profit. And if they don’t win every game then it could be a big loss. Although having just looked at the remaining games for City, and the possible odds for those games, I think I could be lucky to post an actual profit, as I don’t envisage City’s odds to be too favourable. There’s possibly only the Chelsea away game that the odds would be quite ‘big’, but still under 2s I reckon. So my hopes for this strategy aren’t too hot!

You may have noticed that none of the trades for week 21 & 22 were correct score trades, which I’m actually surprised about myself. I thought I might have done at least one, but evidently not. This isn’t a conscious decision, I just don’t think there were any correct scores opportunities that took my fancy for these weeks. I certainly won’t be moving away from trading correct scores, despite my recent losses this season.

Overall, without the City loss, I’m pretty much breaking even over the 2 weeks, so I’m not too despondent. I can’t ignore the City loss, but I do need to put it into perspective. I’m going to keep on going until the end of the season and try not to do anything too stupid. I do know that at the end of the season I’m going to take all the lessons learnt and ensure that next season I’m not going to repeat them. I thought that all the lessons I was going to learn was going to be done in my first season, but because the first season was a good season, you don’t learn many lessons when you’re successful. It’s when you’re taking a beating is when you learn the most valuable lessons, and this season I’ve learnt a lot.

Here’s how the season has gone so far:

I’m not happy with the current losses. No one would be. The way things are going I could be looking at crossing the £1000 loss mark, which would be depressing. I don’t think I’ll hit this landmark amount, but I’ll have my work cut out to get any where near an acceptable loss for the season (about a £500 deficit). As mentioned before , I’ve just got to keep on going and see what happens. After tonight, there are about 8 league games left for the rest of the season. That’s not including the European matches. So with this in mind I’ve got to concentrate on getting things right and minimising those losses. That’s hopefully going to start this weekend when City take on palace. Good luck if you’re trading peeps! And may the Lord be with you. Always!