Skybet Boost for the gubbed

@ Jdrobbo I suspect a lot of work has gone into the production of a spread sheet that calculates these lay stakes for Mark. I would be very surprised if he would give that information away for free. I am not sure if people have realised it, but provided one has a large enough trading bank, there is huge potential in what he posted in this thread.

The handy thing is too, that you are not going to get gubbed, although the question of the PC charge might start to become a consideration after a while. I think its 5% after £5k if profit and can go up to 60%, having said that I think you need to earn about £250k before you pay that, which would be a nice problem to worry about.

@ Mark, I have seen hints and whispers on other forums that Betfair traders are doing something similar to what you are doing, the Kelly criterion has been mentioned in that past as a way of sizing ones bets. I don’t recall however anyone using standard deviation to optimise the Kelly sizing system. Did you come up with this yourself or is it a common method used by hedge funds and similar?

Also have you noticed that the odds on the individual games that are part of the Acca have started to edge up since you started doing this due to traders doing something similar but not quite as sophisticated as what you are doing?