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I've heard of people's PC's being one hour out due to being on GMT and not BST. Could that be the issue?

Helen

had this prob a while back and resetting the time on the pc then rebooting did the trick.

(Im just trying to get the reverse to happen now (be trading on thje race that finished an hour ago :-) )

Time on my computer is correct and this is the first time it's happened. bit of a mystery. Just clicked on 4.20 Nott and got card for 5.20 My list on Betfair doesn't include 4.10 Exeter.

Are you on today's card Helen?

Could be worth checking regional and language settings on your PC?

Yes, Harlosh I am on today's card - cheeky wotsit :0) Phoned betfair - they said it was their problem. Disputed this as no-one else affected, changed to GMT +1 in profile and it seems ok. Thanks for the help, all. H

Lol!!!

Fun and games in the 16:30!

Bets on 12 races today, in profit on 10, so not a bad day, although some of them were a bit messy!

pth

I was having an excellent day till the 16:50 and made a bit of a hash of that one; but that was the only race I lost money on, other than that not a bad day.

Watching the 15:50 with interest. Harrys dream priced at 1.19 before the off, may lay in running at short odds if well in the lead.

Scrip

hope you didnt lay for too much

had a lump on - it was a training exercise!

9 winners today vice 4 losers, unfortunately the overall result ended up as a financial loss. However becoming a little more familiar with the software and learning to leave some races alone.

Scrip, I must be missing something here, why would you wish to lay the 'odds on favourite' whilst in running?

pth

"Harrys dream priced at 1.19 before the off, may lay in running at short odds if well in the lead."

That's the kind of thing I'm missing too, pth. :-)

"....in the lead" is one thing. "....well in the lead" is another.

So there's a horse, the odds-on favourite, well in the lead and the race is running. Obviously, it could get beaten at the post and as they all get nearer to the post, the chance of this unfortunate thing happening increases. But it is the odds-on favourite and it is well in the lead.

I need something more to go on here....

:-)

If it was well in the lead at tiny odds my liability is minimal but it would still have quite a few fences to jump so it was really a judgement on if it would stumble at one of the fences. As it was it ran very well and never looked like making an error.

I would say that this week has been difficult on the horses. No blockbuster days for me this week at all. The first three races I couldn't make any money on at all and indeed made a small loss but the rest of the card was better to me in terms of ability to trade.

I was -3, +9 today. I would rate today as maybe a 4/10 in terms of ability to trade. For comparison the last 103 races I have had only 9 losers including today.

scrip

Harrys Dream was never threatened at all during the race and although I had scalped a few ticks pre 'in play' I also had a few backs bets during the running ti increase my profitability. However I see where you are coming from.

Some of the cards for the races have been particularly dreadful and that's coming from someone who knows sod all about horses. Poor races it seems do not lend themselves to trading on a Betting Exchange.

pth

Wonderful morning (early bleary one) trading the cricket.

For anyone getting involved in the tennis beware of the flu factor:

http://www.news24.com/News24/Sport/More_Sport/0,,2-9-32_1812561,00.html

Might have a thrash at the bookmaking / dutching facility this afternoon. At least a couple of races I don't fancy trading.

"For anyone getting involved in the tennis beware of the flu factor"

Probably an opportunity in there. Retirements are something that are almost impossible to factor into the odds.