I'm sure you've all read Cassini's latest post on Green All Over. It's a long one but a section of it is devoted to having a dig at yours truly (based on my previous post) - casting aspersions about the way I make my money in the tennis markets. A few things need clearing up here and as it's too long to go on his comments section I thought I'd respond here instead.
Firstly, I do not have fast pics and never have done - I use Bet365 streaming. My trading is based on my own knowledge of tennis and the markets and finding value - end of.
When I said on this very blog "ordinary betting syndicates, such as Sporting Data, which are legitimate businesses that make their money from sports trading - just like the one I traded for" Cassini has either deliberately twisted my words, misinterpreted or misread them. I meant that the syndicate I traded for were a legitimate business that make their money from sports trading. As are Sporting Data. I never said anything about exactly how they did that. To set the record straight, they had models for betting on cricket - nothing to do with courtsiding and nothing to do with tennis. I was brought in as a trial to see if they could do something similar to what they did with cricket, with tennis trading. I didn't do anything differently to what I've always done - they knew nothing at all about tennis!
The excerpt from my blog in Jan 2013 (which had nothing to do with the syndicate I traded for for one month in 2012) was exactly as it reads: someone offered to give me money to trade for them - end of. It didn't even go ahead, though it did with another offer later in the year.
My "turnaround in fortunes" were purely because I had a bigger bank. I was actually consistently profitable well before any of these offers, which is why I was getting them in the first place! I just started making more because I had more money to trade with - simple.
The line: "to imply that Mr Normal has just as much chance of success as those with fast data is nonsense", is aimed at my previous post, where I implied no such thing. In fact, I actually said these people "have a distinct advantage over the rest of us in terms of man-power, time and capital." Another case of putting words into my mouth. He seems to have an issue with my belief that anyone can be successful in the sports markets, regardless of the competition. Why he would find this a problem is beyond me. I do think "Mr Normal" has less chance of success but that does not mean it's impossible. I choose to be positive about this on this blog, rather than focus on the negative but that's my personality - if anyone views this as "suspicious", I feel sorry for them.
I've never "hinted" at anything suspicious, always just tried to tell it exactly as it is and hoped people would respect that honesty. I'm surprised that Cassini would start to read anything negative into a few very innocuous things I've said. It sounds as if he is desperate to believe that I couldn't possibly be doing well by myself, yet somehow this doesn't apply to Matt from Punt.com - no, he's one of the exceptions, yet I can't possibly be! Must be something afoot! Well there really isn't.
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I worked hard to get where I am and it's a real pity that someone who actually helped to get me there with his otherwise excellent blog, (which I've praised many times over for being such a great source of info, even during my recent interview with Quant Bubble), would stoop to the worst kind of cynicism in an attempt to sour my name. I've been proud of what I've been able to achieve simply by putting in the hours, never giving up and reading the work of people who know more than me and have succeeded - people like Matt and Mark Iverson, who I'm pretty certain don't have fast pics, aren't part of syndicates and don't courtside either! I would have hoped that Cassini of all people, would have taken maybe just a little bit of satisfaction and pride in the fact that someone has and is beating the markets the same way that he has and by using his own blog as a source of help and inspiration. But I've noticed for a long while that he seems to be making a concerted effort to put people off trading; to suggest we shouldn't be trying to get involved or get our hopes up because the odds are against us. They might well be but if everyone just gave up for that reason, no one would ever succeed at anything.
Whilst I understand wanting to state that the odds are stacked against us in making it pay, he himself has proved it can be done, so I find it very strange that he bangs on about it so often. It's a trading blog, read by traders - I'm sure most of us don't want to hear all the negative crap. We know it's tough but it's tedious hearing about it every other post. Maybe there is an ulterior motive here? Does he want more subscribers to his straight-betting football service? Is he just bitter because he's paying the super premium charge and his trading is diminishing? Does he just not want anyone else to be successful? These are questions that I HAVE NOT been asking myself! Because I tend not to focus on the negatives or look for the worst in people - especially ones I had a decent relationship with.
Many times on Green All Over, I've seen Cassini lay into other people and whilst most of the time, I've agreed with the reasoning for doing this, I really don't get it this time. When you reveal all the more "intimate" details of your trading on a blog, as I do, you are always open to scrutiny and I accept that. Cassini is entitled to his opinion but the way he's gone about it here, (considering I'm someone who has always had a good relationship with him, even considered him a friend as much as one can be in the blogging world) is distasteful. He is too quick to jump on the negative in general and I feel that in this case, he could have easily disagreed with what I wrote about without turning this into something personal. I think this all says a lot more about him than it does about a few things he thinks (wrongly) I was alluding to.
Whilst it's a shame that I've felt the need to respond to these accusations, I'm not going to get into a slanging match - these are my final words. I think the fact that I am now doing well as a trader is partly responsible for that - funny how you carry far more ambivalence when you have less worry in your life! I've hopefully set the record straight but I'm going to be a lot more private about my trading experiences from now on. I'd rather devote my time to positive things than defend myself against stuff like this. Over the last couple of years, Cassini has used Centre Court Trading a lot as a source for his posts. In fact, I'd wager he's linked to or quoted directly from my blog more than any other and it's always been friendly, even when there are differences of opinion. From now on, there will be less material for Roberto Cassini to work with.
Firstly, I do not have fast pics and never have done - I use Bet365 streaming. My trading is based on my own knowledge of tennis and the markets and finding value - end of.
When I said on this very blog "ordinary betting syndicates, such as Sporting Data, which are legitimate businesses that make their money from sports trading - just like the one I traded for" Cassini has either deliberately twisted my words, misinterpreted or misread them. I meant that the syndicate I traded for were a legitimate business that make their money from sports trading. As are Sporting Data. I never said anything about exactly how they did that. To set the record straight, they had models for betting on cricket - nothing to do with courtsiding and nothing to do with tennis. I was brought in as a trial to see if they could do something similar to what they did with cricket, with tennis trading. I didn't do anything differently to what I've always done - they knew nothing at all about tennis!
The excerpt from my blog in Jan 2013 (which had nothing to do with the syndicate I traded for for one month in 2012) was exactly as it reads: someone offered to give me money to trade for them - end of. It didn't even go ahead, though it did with another offer later in the year.
My "turnaround in fortunes" were purely because I had a bigger bank. I was actually consistently profitable well before any of these offers, which is why I was getting them in the first place! I just started making more because I had more money to trade with - simple.
The line: "to imply that Mr Normal has just as much chance of success as those with fast data is nonsense", is aimed at my previous post, where I implied no such thing. In fact, I actually said these people "have a distinct advantage over the rest of us in terms of man-power, time and capital." Another case of putting words into my mouth. He seems to have an issue with my belief that anyone can be successful in the sports markets, regardless of the competition. Why he would find this a problem is beyond me. I do think "Mr Normal" has less chance of success but that does not mean it's impossible. I choose to be positive about this on this blog, rather than focus on the negative but that's my personality - if anyone views this as "suspicious", I feel sorry for them.
I've never "hinted" at anything suspicious, always just tried to tell it exactly as it is and hoped people would respect that honesty. I'm surprised that Cassini would start to read anything negative into a few very innocuous things I've said. It sounds as if he is desperate to believe that I couldn't possibly be doing well by myself, yet somehow this doesn't apply to Matt from Punt.com - no, he's one of the exceptions, yet I can't possibly be! Must be something afoot! Well there really isn't.
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I worked hard to get where I am and it's a real pity that someone who actually helped to get me there with his otherwise excellent blog, (which I've praised many times over for being such a great source of info, even during my recent interview with Quant Bubble), would stoop to the worst kind of cynicism in an attempt to sour my name. I've been proud of what I've been able to achieve simply by putting in the hours, never giving up and reading the work of people who know more than me and have succeeded - people like Matt and Mark Iverson, who I'm pretty certain don't have fast pics, aren't part of syndicates and don't courtside either! I would have hoped that Cassini of all people, would have taken maybe just a little bit of satisfaction and pride in the fact that someone has and is beating the markets the same way that he has and by using his own blog as a source of help and inspiration. But I've noticed for a long while that he seems to be making a concerted effort to put people off trading; to suggest we shouldn't be trying to get involved or get our hopes up because the odds are against us. They might well be but if everyone just gave up for that reason, no one would ever succeed at anything.
Whilst I understand wanting to state that the odds are stacked against us in making it pay, he himself has proved it can be done, so I find it very strange that he bangs on about it so often. It's a trading blog, read by traders - I'm sure most of us don't want to hear all the negative crap. We know it's tough but it's tedious hearing about it every other post. Maybe there is an ulterior motive here? Does he want more subscribers to his straight-betting football service? Is he just bitter because he's paying the super premium charge and his trading is diminishing? Does he just not want anyone else to be successful? These are questions that I HAVE NOT been asking myself! Because I tend not to focus on the negatives or look for the worst in people - especially ones I had a decent relationship with.
Many times on Green All Over, I've seen Cassini lay into other people and whilst most of the time, I've agreed with the reasoning for doing this, I really don't get it this time. When you reveal all the more "intimate" details of your trading on a blog, as I do, you are always open to scrutiny and I accept that. Cassini is entitled to his opinion but the way he's gone about it here, (considering I'm someone who has always had a good relationship with him, even considered him a friend as much as one can be in the blogging world) is distasteful. He is too quick to jump on the negative in general and I feel that in this case, he could have easily disagreed with what I wrote about without turning this into something personal. I think this all says a lot more about him than it does about a few things he thinks (wrongly) I was alluding to.
Whilst it's a shame that I've felt the need to respond to these accusations, I'm not going to get into a slanging match - these are my final words. I think the fact that I am now doing well as a trader is partly responsible for that - funny how you carry far more ambivalence when you have less worry in your life! I've hopefully set the record straight but I'm going to be a lot more private about my trading experiences from now on. I'd rather devote my time to positive things than defend myself against stuff like this. Over the last couple of years, Cassini has used Centre Court Trading a lot as a source for his posts. In fact, I'd wager he's linked to or quoted directly from my blog more than any other and it's always been friendly, even when there are differences of opinion. From now on, there will be less material for Roberto Cassini to work with.