Its’ funny how not thinking about something allows you to find the answer you were looking for. I wasn’t even thinking about the football trading (in fact I’m not sure I was even thinking about trading, I can’t remember now) but the bloomin’ obvious just slapped me in the face.

This was about a week ago and ever since then I have been finding every possible fault with my eureka thought I possibly could – as yet I’ve found none which would stop the method from working in the long run.

I don’t want to let on to what my idea is (that would be foolish) and after searching the internet I cannot find anyone who has mentioned a similar style – this has to be a good thing in my books! For example search ‘Lay the draw’ and find how many strategies are out there and ask yourself if it really works? If you do lay the draw and it works then good luck to you.

I will continue to test and develop this idea which I have codenamed ‘Eureka’ as so far it looks promising. There are a few tweaks and as with anything in this business it will need continued tweaking as the markets evolve.

I also had another kind of eureka moment today as I managed to build a basic program which logs into the Betfair API and shows my account balance. A long was away from a fully fledged betting application but it’s a start. Now is I can get the same program to log into Betdaq……

I can’t help but think my idea is so simple it cannot possibly work but then the simplest things are sometimes the best. Expect a post in a weeks time stating there was some major flaw with my idea – if I never post again you know it worked a treat!