Make Money Trading WTA Tennis Matches!

Betfair trading is the process of placing multiple trades (bets) on the sports betting exchange in order to guarantee a profit regardless of the outcome of the event. Just like any other business, if you buy low and sell high, you make money. We only focus on Women Tennis (WTA). All tournaments in our Daily Trading Audit will be covered all the way from Challengers up to the Grand Slam. NB! Challenger Tours will be only covered when there are no main WTA tournaments (250,500,1000 or Grand Slams).

First of all WTA in overall is an ideal sport to trade on betting exchange. The prices in-play move very mechanically and are easy to predict. Second of all WTA matches are very volatile. Lots of break of serves trigger the price moves and around 8 matches out of 10 will have a very attractive entry point/points available in the match. ATP on the other hand (mens tennis) is way more serve centric which does not produce as many breaks of serve as WTA does. Although it is perfectly possible to trade ATP I only trade WTA as the WTA coverage is ideal. The season starts in January and ends on the first week of December giving traders a good roster to trade matches throughout the year.Also the way how the tournaments progress are ideal as the most matches on earlier rounds are played at the beginning of the week and as the tournaments progress there will be less and less matches each and every round all the way up to Saturday/Sunday when the finals are played making it a very convenient time table for traders as you don´t have to spend so much time trading during the weekends.

The Betfair Exchange is the world’s largest sports betting exchange. It follows the model of a stock exchange, but replacing share trading with betting odds on events in the world of sport, politics and entertainment.

On any betting market, there are two sides of the bet. On one side, there are those who think an event will happen (backers) and on the other, those who think it won’t happen (the layers). Backers and layers get bets ‘matched’ if both are happy to bet at the odds available. By utilising this unique echo system it is possible to replicate systems and methods of a currency/stock trader and apply them on sports markets.

All the trading is carried out at Betfair Exchange.

Unfortunately not. In essence bookmakers and betting exchanges are two difference platforms. In Bookmaker you can only back a selection. Bookmaker or “the house” is someone who always takes your bets at the prices they have determined. Even then when you are really good at spotting value and constantly beating bookies starting prices they can always limit your bets or even shut your account down. However betting exchange such as Betfair works as a middle man. It is just a platform that manages the markets, allows backers and layers exchange bets each other at the prices that backers and layers have determined themselves. Betfair just takes a small commission on winning bets. Betfair never limits you or closes your account (Unless you are some kind of money launderer). Also in order to trade you need liquidity.There is plenty of liquidity in WTA match winner markets. (It is the only market we trade). Grand Slam ladder stages are generating very healthy 7 figures turnover which allows to take the positions with five figure stakes. There are smaller exchanges like Smarkets, Matchbook and Betdaq but the liquidity there is quite poor.

If you do not have an access to Betfair there is however an alternative solution. You could use Betfair broker service such as https://brokerstorm.com/. However don´t take this solution as a permanent one. It is a good for learning the ropes and trading with smaller sums but when you advance you will need some proper 3rd party trading software such as https://geekstoy.com/. It is a fantastic piece of software which uses Betfair API connectivity and allows an user trade without usual Betfair graphical user face. Geeks Toy also offers all the features that financial traders use such as weight of money, ladder interface, fill or kill and so on. Honestly I could not imagine trading without Geeks Toy although is is perfectly possible to trade just using Betfair graphical interface. Unfortunately you cannot use it without having an account with Betfair Exchange.

WTAtrades is mainly for people who have been interested in sports betting but have not been able to make it work for themselves or on the other hand have been limited by bookmakers and are seeking to switch from betting to trading. It is also for people who are seeking to create another income stream and have access to internet and Betfair Exchange. As WTA is being played all year round and at different time zones you can easily trade matches part time. It is also for traders who perhaps have been trading football or any other sports have not been able to “crack it” and have turnd their eyes to tennis trading.

This service is not suitable for people who are already tennis traders and are earning regular 4-5 digit monthly profits. It is not for people who are looking to become millionaires overnight. There are plenty of services who promise you super cars, nice vacations and shredded bodies but my service is not one of them. As you can see from an “about me” picture I am an average guy who drinks Budweiser, wears red crocks and watches Nascar with some local proper chaps. If I made it work for me with some patience you can too! Don´t forget that becoming a profitable trader takes lot of hard work and patience and if that would be so easy most people would have resigned from their work already yesterday.

I would say the less the better. At the beginning when you do not have any experience you are likely to make handful of mistakes.It is not a good idea to let your rookie mistakes cost you 3 digits numbers. On the other hand I also do not believe in paper trading or trading with “pennies” as it basically means you do not feel any business pressure which does not contribute to developing your trader mindset which is essential for gradually scaling up your stakes.

I would suggest that 500€ bank is ideal to start with. If you divide it by 100 you would have 5€ per point trades and depending how much value you see in the markets (That is explained in the strategies in the member area) you could trade in 1-5pt range per trade. 5pt trade is only 5% of your total capital and as explained in the strategies even when we have 5pt trades we have always pre-defined entry and exit points which makes it nearly impossible to lose your full stake.

This is my favourite question I get asked a lot lol. It is nearly impossible to answer to this question. My recommendation would be to take your first 6months up to a year just watching as many matches as possible to recognise the patterns (The same patterns that are used to formulate strategies in the member area). Once you understand the patterns and price shifts that those patterns create you can start calculating your optimal entry and exit points (That hard work is already done in our daily trading audit). Once you understand how the prices move and in every given moment can guess where the prices are going to drift or steam with another break of serve you will have generated a safety net in you trades as now you are in absolute control of your potential upsides and downsides of the trade.

Only after that you can start thinking gradually increasing your stakes. If you can generate 5€ per day trading profit there is no reason why you would not be able to generate 50€ profit per day. Maybe you are already starting to see where this journey can take you. Just don´t start this venture with wrong expectations. If it would be that easy everyone would use some kind of a mechanical strategy and quit their 9-5 job tomorrow. In order to succeed you do not only need right strategies, knowledge of in-play technical analyses, pre match analyses and data collection (already all done for you in the members area). In order to succeed you need a trader mindset and for most people generating it is one of the most counter intuitive process they have ever experienced (I am going to write blog posts about it in the blog section in the near future).

Final words of wisdom here: greed and fear are two feelings that are going to start limiting your potential earnings. You need to get rid of them.

Service 1 is our “Daily Trading Audit”. It is the bloodstream of the whole website. This audit prices up all the WTA matches of the day. Gives a brief pre match description. Generates the most optimal swing trade scenario for each match with specific entry and exit points. Highlights all the tennis patterns and most appropriate strategies you could use if certain triggers happen in the match. The audit has two variations. One for more aggressive traders (potential to more variance in the trading results) and another for more conservative traders who wish to have more smoother profit curve. Service 1 is recurring monthly payment of 30€ euros a month which enables you to download the audit file from the members area.

Service 3 is a combination of Service1 and Service2. You will get a one month “Trading Audit” document and a life time access to a members area. If after one month you wish to continue receiving “Trading Audit” file you will be subscribed to Service1 membership (Without losing access to members area).

Service 2 is a lifetime access to our members area which consists all the strategies (Strategies are divided into: 1.Swing trades 2.Recurring patterns 3.Scalping), Trader mindset articles that i have written based solely on my own development of complete rookie to a seasoned trader, money management tips, links to helpful resources and example trades i have carried out myself (In a video format). Service2 is a lifetime one off purchase of50€ and with that investment you get a lifetime access to a members area which will be updated very frequently. Please note that when you are complete rookie then you should start with Service 2 or Service3 as no strategies are explained in the “Daily Audit” document. If you only want to purchase “Daily Audit” document you should already have a knowledge of the strategies written out in the members area.

NO! Betting and trading are two very different things. When you bet you try to hit a winner. Meanwhile when you trade you don´t care about who wins and who loses. Only thing you care is a price movement in a match that allows you to trade out with a profit. All the information in Trading Audit document is generated based on lots of number crunching in the past where i think there is value to enter the match at a specific price and trade out at the defined exit point. Although when you have taken very good entry points then you have enough “leverage” to adjust exit points depending what you are reading out from a match stream.

1st set, 2 breaks behind, Favourite under 1.8

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Here is an example of very low risk trade first set:

Let’s assume that a slight favourite starts very well and breaks her opponent’s serve in the first game. Now her price has dropped from 1.8 to around 1.42. In the next game she holds her serve and in the third game breaks her opponent again. Because prices in tennis move very mechanically and the prices ALWAYS have to reflect the match situation then now we can safely assume that her price has dropped even further to around 1.22.

Now we have the following situation: Pre match favourite with a price 1.8 (which points to a tight match between players) after only 3 games trades around 1.22. The scoreline is 3-0. We know that at the end of the first set favourites price cannot be ANY lower than 1.16 (Based on knowledge we have obtained trading thousands of matches).

At this point we can very safely lay the favourite knowing that we cannot lose no more than 6 ticks from our trade. Let’s assume that the opposite player has recovered from the little shock and in the fourth game is able to hold her serve. The scoreline now is 3-1. Favourite probably has relaxed a little assuming she already has won the first set and in her next game gets broken (Breaks of serve are very common in WTA which are fantastic triggers for price fluctuations). The scoreline now is 3-2. The price of the favourite has risen from 1.16 to around 1.38. It is around 22 tick profit upside. At this point we can a)hedge for equal profit b) remove the red from the favourite player and leave all profit on player B. c) We can wait and see if player B can pull back another break of serve. If player B can break favourites serve one more time then the price of the favourite player has risen from 1.16 to around 1.85. If we then hedge(spread the profit across players) It is a potential profit of around 50-55 ticks.

As you can see the huge potential of tennis trading over straight betting. The very maximum we are at risk to lose with this trade is only 6 ticks and the upside is almost tenfold.

In money terms let’s assume you are trading with 200€ per trade. 6 tick loss from a 200€ trade would have generated only a 12 euro loss. If player B would have pulled back the second break of serve we would have looked at a very healthy 50 tick profit after hedging which in money terms would have generated us a 100 euro profit from a 200€ capital which is a staggering 50% ROI on a single trade.

Of course not all matches don´t span out like I described above but because in tennis trading the risk and reward ratio in certain situations (all those situations are covered in our member area) is excellent.

Bank builder is a well known loophole (It is actually not a loophole but more of a vulnerability for bookmakers if you know how to use it). I have written a whole section of it in the header menu and I STRONGLY advise you to utilise it as much as you can. First of all it will be very good for your confidence. From the start you are already in a very strong position as you have built a bankroll from the money that you have taken from “the house”. Basically it is the best form of free money as you can get. Again using Bank Builder you need some sort of exchange for hedging your bets. Keep that in mind.

In my opinion the best way to fund your Betfair trading account, withdraw the profits (once you get to that level) and keep/invest your profits is having access to a 3rd party payment provider. If you want to treat it as a business you should have separate money management as well. I have found out that the best payment provider is Revolut- the most valuable unicorn in Europe. Their app is very user friendly. You can order physical Mastercard and link it to your Betfair trading account. Furthermore they have really important feature which is opportunity to buy/sell/hold most common crypto currencies. So basically you can have your trading funds in € sitting in your Betfair trading account and the remaining funds can sit in Bitcoin in your Revolut account (If you have a trading fund of 50k and biggest exposure you have set is 5% from the capital then it is obvious that you do not need the whole fund in your trading account. You could hold 25-30k from that fund in your Revolut crypto wallet and if there is a need you can instantly exchange some of it to fiat currency and send it to your trading account. I have used this method and it has worked out the best for me as i have been able to ride the crypto wave and also avoid the huge inflation as well that has shaken EU since the pandemic.

Keep in mind that all profits from Betfair licensed countries are tax-free!

Since 2022 I´m holding a permanent Romanian residency and all my trading related activities belong to this jurisdiction. Betfair is fully regulated in Romania and not many Betfair traders realise this but the development hub of Betfair Exchange is based in Cluj-Napoca.