Matt

As always, it’s your call guys, but I’ve been trading with Football INDEX for a few months now and haven’t had any problems. My initial refund was credited within a couple of hours.

When I first tried it out, I was interested in trading on the INDEX, so I used the risk-free period to get a feel for how things worked and purchased shares in a small handful of players.

Their user base is growing by the day and as more traders join the INDEX, the more money is invested and that pushes share prices up. Whichever method you go for, it’s a great time to get involved,

@matchedem’s ban is temporary as he has not broken any forum rules. A short break from the forum will hopefully do everyone some good.

The whole situation disappoints me as we’re all here with a common goal and we need to accept that everyone is different. I don’t have an issue with @matchedem. I agree that the boasting is a little tedious but he also posts some good stuff.

On another note, I’m hoping to make some changes to the forum over the next couple of months that will hopefully improve things.

Those are different markets mate.

England to win both halves means they have to win each period of 45 minutes. So, for example, they win the first half 1-0 and then the second half 2-0, giving a final score of 3-0.

England U21/England U21 in the Half-Time/Full-Time market means they just have to be winning at half-time and full-time. So they could win the first half 1-0 and draw the second half 1-1, giving a final score of 2-1. In this instance, they haven’t won both halves though as the second half was drawn 1-1.

Hope that helps!

That’s quite normal with a limited bankroll. It’s worth noting that horse races complete much quicker than football matches.

Another thing to consider is placing your qualifying bets on different horses in the same race or different outcomes on the same football match. Only one horse/team can win the race/match so the amount you need in your Smarkets account will be the outcome with the highest liability.

Say for example, you do 3 different welcome offers and place them on the home team (£50.00 liability), draw (£70.00 liability) and away team (£80.00 liability) for the same football match, you would only need £80.00 in your Smarkets account (not the total of £200.00) as only one of your lay bets can lose.

It’s worth being aware of that as it can make your bankroll go a little bit further.

Place a back bet on the Betfair Exchange and lay it at Smarkets.

Use the risk-free setting on my calculator and make sure you include the 5% commission for your back bet at Betfair.

I think we may have to ban these monthly profit threads… They seem to be doing more harm than good.

Check out the Horse Racing Offers page under the ‘Offers’ tab above guys. They should all be listed there.