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Two premiership football clubs are owned by people who made the money through betting on football matches. Brighton and Brentford. Naturally they run the clubs using money ball techniques. Google Tony Bloom.
 
I’ve met two professional sports betters one in football and the other cricket. Not to put you off, but both part of large syndicates, with teams including meteorologists, social media analysts, sports analysts, the traders who needed contacts worldwide to lay big bets, as well as obviously quants . Footballs most liquid. Fascinating though
 
lime said:
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How liquid are the sports trading markets? Is the football market most liquid of all?
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The problem is not liquidity per se, but that once you start winning with an edge, many bookies will either no longer take your bets, or limit you to a nominal amount like 10 pounds.

One way around this is to go through a betting exchange like BetFair exchange where it is not a bookie on the opposite of your bet, but some other gambler.

But some people have reported betting exchanges cracking down on winners, because if all the money goes to a few winners, then transactions fall, and hence transaction fees the betting exchange collects, also falls.

In short, daytrading is way more scalable than sports betting.
 
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