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    Sports Trading: Mathematics or Art? 

    • Picture of Davide Renna Davide Renna
    • July 8, 2024
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    For years, I have observed the proliferation of methods to “do” Sports Trading, all proposed as foolproof and essential.

    Guides, manuals, management software… numerous solutions proposed as “the most effective” for navigating the world of sports trading towards the goal of becoming a professional.

    Especially numbers, presented as a remedy and an opportunity to earn, succeed, and live well.

    The next step, once I became an adult and based on my experiences, was to ask myself how much numbers actually matter in life.

    Are they essential (and sufficient) for those who want to achieve significant goals, or is there more to it?

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    Numbers

    Although I place great importance on numbers, with which I have always had an excellent relationship. I believe we should limit their use to certain areas.

    Certainly, statistical analysis helps to narrow down the field of possible choices with greater precision. While a data-driven approach is functional for correcting and continuously improving one’s strategy, as I have found in my entrepreneurial experiences.

    However, It’s also true that everything cannot be defined through numbers and that the system cannot be fully automated by following a purely mathematical logic combined with Sports Trading. The human component is an equally fundamental element, with its load of awareness and individual perceptions.

    Intuition

    We live in a historical era dominated by rationality, and the mistake is trying to label everything, every little thing, through logic and reasoning. On the contrary, the role of intuition, perceptions, sensations, and everything that can be referred to the sphere of personal sensitivity, is demonized and relegated to the realm of the superfluous and the useless.

    In reality, however, it’s beneficial to cultivate subjectivity because from this noble part of our psyche, we can draw essential abilities and potentials for our approach to work and data analysis.

    Trusting oneself and one’s intuitions is equivalent to completing rationality, which is important but not exhaustive.

    An integrated approach between the two spheres helps to produce data and performances significantly superior to the widespread approach based solely on rationality, as it manages to grasp elements reachable only through emotional logic.

    At this point, it is essential to learn to recognize these resources, to give them space, and to value them for the contribution they can offer.

    It’s not simple, but it’s possible. The the first step is to try to understand the conditions that allow us to access these potentials, which after all are already within us and pay the price of the awareness we lack.

    But if we truly have the desire to discover how our intuition, absolutely subjective, is crucial for success in work and for achieving personal balance, we can reap benefits that are immediately perceptible.

    The art of this profession

    The truth, as always, lies in the middle: I believe it is correct to use mathematics and rationality within Sports Trading to identify and narrow down the scope of action.

    Defining essential guidelines for profitability in the long term remains a categorical imperative for achieving tangible and concrete results, it’s important to emphasize this. In Sports Trading, as in other entrepreneurial professions.

    But within those guidelines, I believe it can be interesting and fulfilling to also move with creativity, allowing space for personal feelings and deeper perceptions that each of us hold within.

    Only in this way is it possible to proceed in the direction of transforming one’s work into a unique form of art. Unique precisely because it is the subjective component that makes it non-replicable.

    In Sports Trading, mathematics, science, and intuition are therefore closely interconnected elements to create a solid and well-defined professionalism and achieve the set goals. It’s just a matter of learning to dose them and assign each one the place it deserves.

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    Davide Renna is an Entrepreneur and Sport Trading Expert, dedicated to driving financial growth and innovation.
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