$93 to a bit more

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Old Aug 18, 2010, 3:54pm   #9
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I do apologise; just checked and it was actually £2.95!

Let me let you into the exciting tale. I put £5 into Skybet's deal or no deal this weekend, and received £3 in return.

A £2 loss?

NO!

For the only reason I was playing such a moronic game was Skybet was offering a free £5 bet if I deposited £5 and played deal or no deal that weekend. Now, free bets aren't stake returned, so it's fairly difficult to extract the entire stake. But by examining the 8:20 1m4f Handicap at York yesterday, goddamit if I wasn't able to get that £5 on geegee Storm Hawk at Skybet at 20-1 (that is to say, 21.0 on decimal odds) while laying the blighter for £5.19 at average odds of 19.321 at Betfair (so say my logs).

After comission and such like, when the poor thing lost I gained £4.95, as I would have done, give or take a penny or two, had he lost...

So... deposit £5... win £7.95... why I do believe that's £2.95 profit.

Happy days...
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Old Aug 18, 2010, 3:55pm   #10
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£2.95!!!
Just don't let it change your life.
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Old Aug 18, 2010, 4:05pm   #11
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Too late, I already bought a yacht.
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Old Aug 19, 2010, 1:22am   #12
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JD started with £97. Now Chartsy is trading off $93. What next?
lol

Next ! £10

Well I was going to trade on Oanda but I have had problems getting funds on the account in the past. So Monday I sent a test deposit of £10 to make sure I got the deposit process right.

As now I'm on Smart Live Markets I'll just trade the £10 as and when.
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Old Aug 19, 2010, 3:59am   #13
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no offence, but rly wtf is the point
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Old Aug 19, 2010, 4:28am   #14
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no offence, but rly wtf is the point
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Old Aug 19, 2010, 5:06am   #15
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no offence, but rly wtf is the point

Fun?
And maybe we'll learn something along the way.
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Old Aug 19, 2010, 5:23am   #16
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no offence, but rly wtf is the point
Shocked.. at such language from a forum guide... Valid point, but if it helps JD trader then wtf. But as well all know trading at ten/twenty ppp, or buying ten/twenty lots is a whole different ball game, different park, different fookin universe..
TBH I'm with you, I cba with broadcasting mini/micro performance, but heh, we're all different...
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