My last post may have been a touch condescending to the author of this thread – I blame the incessant voices and that nut that calls himself whathisname.
The last time I ever offered anything of value to this hallowed place was when the boot came in.
If you assume the mentality of Dennis Hopper in his protagonist role in Blue Velvet you might well, set in that strange mindset, consider a full time career betting on horses as a possible career move. Quite a few citi types chanced their luck on the exchanges just post the millennium. Some couldn’t hack it, others stayed until the tax took hold. Thinking back, Betfair or Butterbar as I then called it, put out a special announcement and advised how many on their ‘death to the bookie’ platform were making 15k a year. It was in 2002 and I remember the numbers but I very much doubt any of you you do – 15 people in a thousand. Hmmm not many if it’s to be taken as gospel, and many of that number may have been price traders I. Price trading was a natural progression on P2P’s but to the straight back and lay boys they were considered the snide devil incarnate.
Hats off to those who have made a reasonable yearly wedge over time betting on horses. I suppose it beats driving a bus but possibly the bus driver may have a more comfortable ride, and has a pension at a later stage in life if the piles don’t get him, when the horse follower is using a magnifying glass to study the form whilst taking the odd painkiller for his back.
In my next brief I may explain how much you can earn on the platforms.
Alternatively, I may not !