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Rosicky looks another steal from Wenger in the transfer market :-)

well, loss on the Match Odds, but made most of it up by Dutching the correct score, although sitting on the edge of me seat a bit, cos I didn't cover 'any unquoted' - bit of a relief!!

This over/under goals market is good stuff innit. Getting the hang of this round-ball-game now with 40% return on USA/Cz alone :-)

Nice one Edward :-)

Having a bit of trouble getting to the Account Statement on Betfair. Normally I like to web-query this from Excel to import all the transaction history for the record. I presume it's due to heavy loads on the system and should be available later. Anyone else having trouble?

No, not me, although some bets do take a while to settle??

No problem with the "balance" figure, just can't get to the spreadsheet for the moment

Green on Italy and the 1.5. Basically chickened out of the latter, will see how the second half goes. Wouldn't be surprised if Italy sit back at some point and protect their one goal lead. Although, they are still 'going for it' at the moment.

Nice one Pete. Ditto here as well.

Well done Baks

Captured 10 more ticks from the under 1.5 but green now

Just as well you got out there Edward

That was a bit of a white-knuckle ride :-)

Dutched the Correct Score again, although didnt relaise I had missed the 1-1 until Ghana nearly got a penalty! Successful day again though. Well done Baks and Edward :-)

I scalped Italy for 3 ticks and guess what? As soon as I was out they score the 2nd.

At least I profited so cant really complain.

It happens Baks, had a sizeable bet on a recent footy match and ended up green for tens of pounds rather than hundreds :-( Sure it works both ways though.

Just resolved problem with web-query of Account Statement. It was a pop-up blocker in Norton. Never thought of that because I had never had any difficulty before. Betfair telephone support were prompt and first-class, even phoning me back after 5 mins. on one occasion to see if a re-boot had worked.

The problem came about through automatic self-upgrading of the Norton Internet Security product. Once I had added betfair.com deep within the permissions list in the privacy control section the functionality was restored.

If anyone doesn't know how to do this, (I think you need Excel 2003 at least but stand to be corrected):

On a new spreadsheet, go DATA - IMPORT EXTERNAL DATA - NEW WEB QUERY
This brings up a dialog box with an address bar at the top which loads your default home page. You replace the URL with www.betfair.com and bring up Betfair's home/login page. You may need to resize the window to see the login boxes at the top right.
Now log in and when the next page appears, replace the URL again with:

http://www.betfair.com/account/AccountStatement.do?include=all&startRecord=0

Your transaction history should appear (this is the point at which I was only able to get a blank screen - see above). Tick the checkbox that relates to the area of data containing the transaction history then click IMPORT at the bottom of the dialog.

Accept the A1 cell placement offered next.

The dialog disappears and you have all the data, transaction references, commissions, etc. in your own spreadsheet for whatever purpose you require.

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Edward

Thanks for that edward, how far back does it go?

I think it is on a rolling 30-day basis - so you have to capture it at least once a month to maintain a full record.

Note also that the URL ending with ...Record=0 can be changed to ...Record=20 etc. to get the extended data beyond the number of records on the first page of their listing (and =30, etc.)

Some big players are trying to move the Brazil price onto the lay side. Theres 500k+ at 1.38