Betting exchanges are emerging as the best sportsbetting sites because they offer better odds than traditional bookmakers and you don’t see as much of your betting profit disappearing into the bookie’s pockets. Call it reduced juice sportsbetting if you wish. In basic terms, you can either place a bet just like you would with an [...]

Like everything else, it is important to understand the process otherwise you may lose money unnecessarily. You might also make money by accident but that’s a risky way to make a bit of cash! A betting exchange doesn’t accept the bets themselves, they merely provide a forum to match punters on either side of a [...]

To back a bet Someone offers 2.5 on team A to win over team B for a maximum of $500. You believe team B will win and you accept (or back) the bet. This is the same procedure as a bookie publishing the odds. You then usually just have to click on the link, enter [...]

So you like to trade. How’s your portfolio doing for the year? Not so great, huh? That’s the problem with the markets. Some schmuck analyst from Goldman Sachs says Sun Microsystems will “at a minimum” meet consensus estimates for its fourth-quarter results. So you buy. Next thing, the same analyst is “expressing concerns” about Sun [...]

How’s the market doing? It’s a question that trips off a lot of tongues every day in America. And the answer is nobody’s got a clue. Cast-iron proof that this is the most nervy, uncertain market in a decade or more can be found each day on TradeSports, a P2P trading site with 9,000 members [...]

Okay, you’ve heard about TradeSports, you’ve heard it’s a sports wagering exchange, where the bookie is cut out of the loop and the trader gets the best odds around. How do you go about joining in the revolution? Step 1: Go to the TradeSports website and check out the Flash demo. It only takes a [...]

There are two ways to bet on sports – smart and stupid. Talk to that rare creature, the man who consistently beats the bookies, and he will tell you that the way to do it is to bet only when the price is right. In Ireland, there’s a guy they call the Sundance Kid, a [...]

TradeSports, the online trading and betting exchange that is currently offering lines on Saddam Hussein, has turned its attention from Baghdad to Washington by speculating on the next occupant of the White House. A line on George W. Bush being re-elected in 2004 is trading at 63 on the 0-100 odds scale, which means if [...]

How much of a market-watcher are you? Do you have a feel for the way the Dow Jones Industrial Average ebbs and flows? If watching the numbers is your thing, you might find it profitable to trade those numbers too A P2P exchange which has been in the news lately for offering its customers a [...]

First week of the new NFL season and the evidence was irrefutable: the revolution that is exchange wagering on TradeSports has the potential to sweep all before it. It might have seemed like football was made for trading but to truly appreciate a marriage made in heaven you had to experience it. St Louis at [...]