Ladder trading: Reacting quicly in a volatile market
Taking advantage of a fast-moving market is one of the best ways to make a profit in your gambling and trading.
It may only be a small movement in the market that opens up a brief window of opportunity to cash in, but you need to be able to react quickly enough to take that opening.
The way to do this is by ladder trading and there are plenty of betting apps on the market which offer you this feature in a pretty similar format.
The layout is what you would expect. It looks like a ladder and it can provide you with an in-depth view on the market of a particular event.
The ladder display allows you to see all the available prices, the liquidity in a market and how much has already been traded.
Using this information in front of you puts you in a far stronger position to make a quick decision on a bet and with just one click.
You can eliminate a lot of the risk potential as well by pre-setting many of the options you will need. You can set up how much you want your stake to be when you back, and how much it should be when you want to lay a selection.
You can just click on one of the cells next to the ladder containing the prices and your bet will be placed.
You can also easily see the percentage of money which is on each side of the book and there is also a trading profit column. You can use this to close at a price with just one click as well.
The ladder layout also makes it much easier for you to be able to spot either tick offset opportunities or stop loss situations.
Each price increment is known as a tick, and you can set up your app to automatically place an opposing order after your initial bet has been matched.
Some apps will also offer a ladder interface for specific scalping opportunities. This gives you the chance to make a profit on pretty much every bet.
For instance, you can quickly spot if there is enough liquidity in a market for you to back a selection at a price of 6.8 and then lay it off at 6.7.
By using the trading profit column, you’re also in a better position to quickly spot when a market has turned against you and you can react quickly to restrict your losses.
In-running horse racing tends to offer the most volatile market and being able to spot the fluctuations in a market on one screen right in front of you helps you to take advantage.
The ladder layout, once you’re accustomed to everything, is easy to follow and you can gradually build up your stake to make the most of the opportunities available.
