Recent content by merriegarden

Steve, Grant Thanks for your comments. As it was my first attempt I kept the stake manageable in case I had miscalculated - if I found a similar opportunity again I would definitely increase the stake. Unfortunately there was no system involved in finding the opportunity, I looked at fx as in...

Actually Steve is correct - 2 bets with different bookies on two separate outcomes. Therefore no matter the outcome one of the bets would have paid, so I didn't need to take a view either way. Perhaps it was just a fluke rather than a long term strategy!

Grant Thanks for the reply. The trade was based on EUR/SEK hitting 9.25 in the following 5 days - the cost of the no touch to win £500 was £300 and the cost of the one touch to win £500 was £100. I suspect there is considerable skill to looking in the right place - otherwise a bit like looking...

Hello - new to the site and my first post...bear with me! I am interested in arbitrage fixed odds trading, and with a basic knowledge signed up to betsfortraders and betonmarkets - after about 30 minutes I found an opportunity linked to EUR/SEK that returned 25% using a simple one touch and no...