Backing The Away Team Was Profitable

Send us Fan Mail What do you do when a football trading strategy keeps losing? In this podcast, I take a Lay The Away Team strategy, backtest it properly, and find out that the numbers just do not stack up. But instead of stopping there... I flipped the idea. Rather than laying the away team, I tested backing the away team instead. And that changed everything. In this episode, we look at:  How the original Lay Away Team strategy performed   Why the backtest showed it was not worth trading   What happened when I reversed the idea   The profit and ROI from backing the away team   Strike rate and average odds   Winning and losing runs   Which filters made the biggest difference   Whether the new version is worth forward testing  This is exactly why backtesting matters. Sometimes it saves you from trading a bad strategy. And sometimes a losing idea points you towards a much better one. If you want to test your own football trading strategies before risking real money, check out the Betfair Trading Community football backtesting software. Support the show Sign up here: https://checkout.lightspeedstats.com/lightspeed-stats-football-stats/ Twitter: @BetfairTC Website: https://betfairtradingcommunity.com/en/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/betfairtradingcommunity