Ask any punter to name you a betting software product and chances are the words Bet Angel will be the first thing they mention. It’s no surprise really as it’s the most widely known of the betting software available on the market today, but there are other sophisticated trading programs out there to rival it nowadays and undoubtedly one of the best of these is an application called BetTrader.

The creator of BetTrader, Adam Todd, spent five years working as a ‘scalper’ making lots of short term trades on the 10 year German Government Bond Futures Contract and it was this knowledge he used to begin his Betfair trading activities. In the space of three years Adam turned a starting bank of just £200 into the best part of £100,000. Impressive by anyone’s standards!

During this time he set himself the challenge of developing a tool that would make his trading life easier and with the vast amount of knowledge he’d gained as a professional trader, he was perfectly placed to do it.

BetTrader is one of the most popular Betfair betting and trading platforms available today and was actually the first of its kind to offer one click bet submission on all Betfair markets (not a lot of people know that). It was first developed in 2004, but Adam has not rested on his laurels because he has updated it year on year. The latest version has so many useful features that there’s no way I could list them all here, so I’ll give you a brief overview of my favourite functions:

• Once Click Bet Submission
• Live Updating Prices (to 100ths of a sec)
• Ladder Interface (as used in financial trading)
• Hedge Button
• View Multiple Tabbed Markets
• Price Direction Colour Flashes
• Live Hedged P/L

There are so many other cool things this software can do and many of Adam’s customers have actually gone from complete novice to trading guru in a matter of weeks!

I can almost hear you now…. “sounds great Craig, but how much is this gonna cost me to download?” Well, that’s where it gets even better. It will cost you nothing at all to download and start using the basic version.

Obviously, there are costs involved to use the full package, but even these are amongst the most competitive in the market. What Adam has decided to do is to charge you by the minute – much like a pay as you go mobile phone. You can choose from 200 – 2000 minutes and it will cost as little as £4.95 for the 200 minutes and unbelievably only £29.95 for 2000 minutes – that works out at around 1.5p per minute which is superb value for a product of this ability.

For those of you who are likely to use it most days there are other payment options too. You can buy months at a time, the cost for one month is only £39.95 for unlimited use up to £299.95 for 12 months of unlimited use. I really don’t think I can stress how much value Adam is offering here. He’s designed these pricing plans, not only to fit with everyone’s budget, but also with their trading style. If you can only bet at weekends for example, you might only need the 200 minutes, but if you plan to become a full-time trader, you can buy a full year of unlimited use. It’s a flexible pricing structure with an option that should be suitable for everyone.

Personally, I think BetTrader is more user friendly than the likes of Bet Angel Pro, which although a fantastic product, can be a little daunting – especially to those starting out. And if you are just starting out in the wonderful world of trading, BetTrader has something else to help you ‘bed in’…

The big time traders will be trading in units of £100, £200 even £500 and £1000 but when you’re just starting out, you won’t want to be doing that, so you can actually start testing your trades (or your own system ideas) using 1p stakes. Yup, you read that right – just 1 pence stakes! No more of this Betfair £2 minimum, you can learn your trading with the safest possible stakes. It really doesn’t get much better than this!

Actually, it does – for those of you new to trading, or even those just trying BetTrader for the first time, Adam has created a range of videos that show you very clearly how to use the software. There are so many videos that explain everything from simply placing a bet right the way through to some of the more complicated trading practices and literally everything in between.

I know Paul is a big fan of Bet Angel Pro, but personally I can’t praise BetTrader enough. So much thought has gone into this software that, for me, it’s a must-have piece of kit.

Click Here To Try BetTrader For FREE!

In case you didn’t know it yet, Bet Angel Pro is the daddy of all trading applications. If you’re really serious about making the most of the betting exchanges and you’re looking to give yourself the best chance of making money, this is one piece of software that delivers every time. It allows you to maximise the potential the betting exchanges offer to the fullest extent possible.

Whether you’re looking to scalp the market, catch larger (more profitable) trading swings, take speculative positions, be the bookmaker, dutch the market, create your own trading strategies, or even build a fully automated trading bot, Bet Angel Pro can do it for you with ease.

This is what others have said about it….

“I have now stumbled across the ‘Rolls Royce’ in trading programs. The program is Bet Angel… It has absolutely everything you could think of to assist anyone in trading the markets, from a novice to a pro.”

“With so many bots & methods for using the exchanges these days it can be a problem to find what is best for your needs. Bet Angel, by some miracle, manages to cover nearly every possible angle you may need to cover… Customer support is excellent, and the software is extremely well priced. This is the bot I use the most, and I do not see that changing any time soon…. Just buy it!”

“I am very impressed with your approach to always trying to improve the software and I feel the changes are made with thought as opposed to just a pointless visual change. I don’t know much about the people behind Bet Angel Pro but it feels as if it is people who trade or at least understand what people want. Too many companies just try to cash in with poor products.”

“I took your offer of a trial for Bet Angel Pro, and WOW. This is a traders dream come true, so many features, and all of them so useful in many different situations. You have me as a lifetime member, I dont even have to wait for the 20 day trial to finish, this is the one for me! Thank you so much for your superb efforts in making Bet Angel Pro the very best tool a trader could ever wish for, I look forward to a long and very fruitful relationship. I would recommend Bet Angel Pro to anyone who is serious about trading”

And NOW you can try it FREE!

Yep, you heard that right. This afternoon I came across a secret, unadvertised, page on the Bet Angel website that allows you to download the full “professional” version of the software and use it for the next 7 days for free. I’ve never seen this advertised before and it’s almost impossible to find it on their website, but I did find it and I’ll happily share it with you…

Download Bet Angel Professional For FREE!

I don’t know how long this offer will be available and the normal trial version of the software would cost you £20 for 20 days use, so I’d grab this fully-functional free version while you can!

This has to be one of the most widely recognised betting products on the market and is a nigh on essential bit of kit to anyone using Betfair on a regular basis – especially those considering venturing into trading. As the name suggests, it is the basic version of a much more advanced piece of software, kind of like its little brother.

To anyone considering buying the full version with all its flashing lights and jingly bells, I would heartily recommend a few weeks using the basic version and acquainting yourself with it and its basic features before venturing onto the ‘full fat’ version.

I tend to be one of those people who will be doing a million things at once and realise at the very last second that I was planning to stick a bet on in a particular race. Now, if I go to Betfair, I’m gonna have to faff around clicking various buttons here and there before getting my bet matched, and wobetide I have the audacity to try and place that bet just as the market goes ‘in play’!

So, nowadays, my weapon of choice is Bet Angel Basic with its simplistic one click betting and quick refreshes (as low as one second, although I believe the full version refreshes at as much as 1/100th of a sec – feel free to correct me for I may be wrong) to place most of my bets.

It is also a must have for the novice trader. There is an inbuilt ‘momentum indicator’ to help you follow the weight of the money and try to make informed decisions on trades. And to help spread your profit over all runners after a successful trade it has a ‘green up’ function that is as simple as a single mouse click.

So to anyone who has ever missed getting that bet on ‘in play’ or just before, and indeed to the would be trader, I recommend you head on over to the Bet Angel website and get your hands on a free copy.