WSEX "Position Report" decoding help needed

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I'm new to WSEX, so bear with me...

I'm looking at a report for "Long-Term Markets"/"Future Positions" covering my AI bets to date. Except that I was expecting to see how much I bet, what the odds were, who I bet on, and what the payout was. Of course there's none of that at WSEX.

Could someone please tell me what the columns 'Position' and 'Market' reflect? I think 'Position' is the number of 'shares' I bought but the numbers under 'Market' are unfamiliar to me.

Also, is there a report I can view that just shows me dollar amounts and odds, for my simplified purposes?

Help! And thanks.
 

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xpanda,

if you would like to call in and ask for Steve I will help you find the information you are looking for
 

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With "Live Betting/Long-Term Markets" in the first dropdown, choose any of the time periods such as "Past 30 Days" in the second dropdown to see what you bet.

You will see seven columns there, most of which are self-explanatory.

"Entered" gives you the date and time you made the bet.

"B/S" states whether your transaction was to "buy" (bet on) or "sell" (bet against). You’ll notice there are two rows within the column. The top one ("buy" or "sell") is what you attempted to bet. The bottom one ("bought" or "sold") is what you in fact bet. They will be the same when your order was filled completely, and will differ when your order was only partially filled before the lines changed.

"Size" is the number of contracts you bought or sold. (A "contract" being a bet where the sum of the risk amount and the "to win" amount equals $100. So, for instance, risking $5 to win $95, risking $40 to win $60, risking $99 to win $1, etc.)

"Event" is of course what event you bet on.

"Series" is who you bet on (or against) for that event.

"Price" is the risk amount for each of the contracts you bought, or the "to win" amount for each of the contracts you sold.

"Result" tells you whether your attempted bet was accepted in full, partially accepted, or rejected.

So let’s say you bet on Sundance, and you want to double check to see how much you bet on him and at what odds. Find the row with Sundance under "Series" and check the "B/S," "Size," and "Price" columns. For example, if it says "Buy 100" and underneath that "Bought 20," that means you put in an order for 100 contracts, but they only accepted a bet for 20 before the line moved. If under "Price" it says "$8," then you have bet $160 to win $1,840 on Sundance. (That’s $8 to win $92 twenty times.)

The alternative is to select "Futures Positions" in the second dropdown. Instead of a history of your transactions, this tells you what positions you currently hold. An important difference is that "Market" tells you the current line instead of the line you made the bet at. So for Sundance, instead of stating the $8 you bought your contracts at, it tells you Sundance’s current price. If, for instance, it says "6 - 9," that means you can bet against Sundance (in effect, selling out of your current position) by risking $94 to win $6 per contract (which means you’d be taking a loss since you bet it at $8), or you can bet additional money on Sundance by risking $9 to win $91 per contract.
 

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Aha! In the second drop-down menu, I was selecting 'futures positions' rather than 'last 30 days' (for example) and so was getting a different report. If I check 'last 30 days' I get a report that includes the information you list, tld1962. THIS is what I was looking for.

Thank you!
 

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it may take a bit of getting used to for reading it. But it's not difficult and the absolute most fun ( from my perspective) one can have during watching a game!
VIVA--Wsex!
 
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Is it just me Stevwsex or is the value on your longterm markets gotton worse....your paying out 91 and asking 132 on the ai....i dont remember the differential ever being that big?...
 

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Next to their honest reputation for paying the winners, I would say this "future's trading" puts them in a class above the rest! Sometimes they takes take a price position and sometimes it's the players that drive the price up or down. I frequently lack the patience for it; but haven't seen it duplicated else!
 

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