
215: William Beauchamp – Ex-Poker Player Assembles Team to Conquer Sports Markets
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How to Make Algorithmic Trading Strategies for Betfair
He was at the best HFT firm around. He'd had this incredible offer to go to New York and start his, his own team. Now when you leave one firm to go to another, they've got these non-competes. And so for six months he wasn't able to do anything on a financial exchange. One day he called me up and said, well, listen, I want to take these algorithmic strategies that they've been applying to financial exchanges. And I want to try and run it on a sports exchange. So in the UK, they've gone to Australia too. Betfair is a really big sports exchange. It really sounded very, very interesting to
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