tells you what you need without waffle - Rated 
interesting book, the author knows his subject well, and I have found it most illuminating.
money can be made, carefully, and lost...but risk is risk, that's the fun of it....good stuff!.
The only certainty is uncertainty - Rated 
This book provides information on how to navigate trading websites, however, any book that guarantees a financial profit should be avoided. In gambling, there are no guarantees! If there were, then millions of people would give up their jobs and send the bookies to the poor house.
In particular, anybody with experience of "trading" will know that even when following the written instructions in this book to the letter, your predictions will be wrong as often as they are right. Your profit, therefore, will be nothing!
Nice enough book - Rated 
This is a nice enough book, a pleasnt read and an introduction on trading on horses and a little section on trading on sports. Unfortunataly this book only deals with trades when they go right. Lets face it anyone can make a profit when the event starts going our way, lay low back higher its not rocket science, what the author dosent concentrate enough on is when the trades start going against you, useful information on when to bail out would be useful. He then gives a perfect example of a tennis trade in the sporting section, nothing that anyone wouldnt have done anyway. Dont get me wrong this is a nice book to read and im sure the author has the readers best intentions at heart, he just focuses too much on when things go right and not enough on when things go pear shaped
Perhaps a Dated Concept - Rated
Interesting read, but this book lacks the "what if things move the wrong way" aspect. If you make your correct decisions in backing high and laying low, then a book is not needed, you will make a living. Simple as that! A book should tell you how to keep picking winning selections but (perhaps more importantly) reduce losing damage when a wrong decision is made.
When I tested the principle of weight of money online, I found that because of the amount of people trading there was not many opportunities to lock in a profit. Also, there comes a point where you have to take a position and lay your bet, the book assumes you back when the price is just about to move, this is almost impossible to do in practise as the price is ALWAYS moving! I think some of the concepts are dated.
Good ideas in places, but perhaps something that in the 2 years since publication, betfair has changed and the weight of money theorums are now just too obvious to too many punters.
The problem with any book is that once loads of people start applying the systems recommended the markets alter making them difficult to implement. I would recommend this book but as a way of getting your mind ticking over to think of ideas for profit, but in regards to what is recommended in the text itself I would invest wisely.
An interesting read - Rated
The basic strategy is back high then lay low or lay low then back high.
I found the book well written and interesting to read.My main criticism is that there is no formulae given to maximise your win or minimise your loss if the price moves the wrong way. There is an assumption that you will guess/work out the right to trade most of the time.
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