Good result, bad trading

Daily Result: £220.25

Was looking forward to today. Start of the grass court season, blazing sun at Queens and a return to getting scores announced in English - by umpires with ever such slight "plummy" English accents. And on the face of things it was a good days trading but the reality is today my trading was shite.

For starters I lost on two of the four games I traded. Doesn't happen very often. And to rub salt into the wounds on both the games I lost on I was comfortably up at one stage. Thought about blaming it on the prescription pain killers I'm quaffing at the moment which are leaving me more than a little spaced out but the truth is I just had a shocker.

Anyway, suffered my biggest loss of the month to date on the first match of the day involving Lopez v Bracciali. Dropped £241.62 through nothing more than poor trading. At the end I increased the red on Bracciali for the tiebreaker on a calculated risk. If he lost the tiebreak I'd be all green. If he lost I suffered a bigger loss. Don't often take such a position but the circumstances were right to have a go. Anyway, I lost.

Made some money back on the Henman v Agassi game. Was pleased I just accepted the loss from earlier and went back to the basics with no chasing. Then pocketed £448.74 on the Rusedski game. Just went like a dream for me and was my biggest win to date since starting the blog. Rusedski's retirement helped increase the size of the green but if he'd retired when he should have I'd have made a couple of hundred more. Nice to have a retirement go my way at last anyway. Had two go against me since I started the blog.

Final match of the day was Monfils v Melzer. I started trading for fun stakes and was comfortably up before making a betting error. Let it run and ended up having a break go against me within about a minute. Levelled out red while calling myself some choice names for both mistakes and then worked at reducing the red till the end of the game.

Suppose I should be happy with the daily result. All helps build the pot for the wedding but the daily result hides some pretty dumb trading and a betting mistake on my part. Still, tomorrow is another day!