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Backing The Away Team Was Profitable
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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…
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