Does a high amount sway thet odds?

[Polarbear]

Hi,
(yes im new here

Ive been studying trading for about a month now and am currently using the training system in Geekstoy. Im starting off by studying the easiest trades first, scalping. But, Ive noticed that, occasionally, if one of the odds is currently at back 5.0 and lay 5.1 (and its been like that for a while), Ive checked the graph and its waving smoothly enough for this to work, ill put in a back of 5.1 and a Lay of 5.0 with £100, both at the same time quickly, one of them will go through but the other will shoot up or down and may never come back and I end up betting on a horse, hoping itll win or lose, which is GAMBLING. The cange in odds is instant! like I caused it with my £100.

So, my question is, can it really sway the odds by a great deal when I put down my £100 and how can I use this to my advantage?

Thanks

[helplessone]

your bet in training mode has no influence to the real price-movement that the training mode shows. all your training-mode-bets are virtual, but all training-mode-movements are real.

[Polarbear]

ok, cool. So the movements are real, but what about my last question, can it really sway the odds by a great deal when I put down my £100 and how can I use this to my advantage?

[shadowninja]

If it's real £100 and the market's thin, then of course it will as people will see that money and react in different way eg using it as a safety barrier to lean on for their £2 bets or just because they want to get in front of you, knowing it will take ages to clear £100 if they put it on top of yours.

[Cran]

If you put £100 in a low liquidity market one possibility is that someone (or someones bot) will take your £100 and take the prices past yours trying to trigger your stop loss.

Another possibility is what shadowninja said.

Another possibility is someone wants to bet £100 so they take your bet.

So it could get taken and it could move either way... or it could just sits there and nothing happens...

So the answer to your first question is it can sometimes effect the odds, but how to use it to your advantage, good luck with that one

[Polarbear]

so is 100 too big to bet with generally?

[shadowninja]

£5 can be too big sometimes.