Haha, yes that's how it sometimes works.  Yeah I agree with you though.  A McGregor victory would be much much better for the UFC and the fans as there would be more possibilities for exciting match ups.  McGregor vs Diaz III is nice but there's news that Dominic Cruz is also sending feelers to McGregor as posted by bbc.reporter a few posts up.  I would also love to see that fight happen as I'm also a Cruz fan.

Dominick Cruz explains how he would beat Conor McGregor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y41BSxRYrGQ

McGregor in both fights started to gas out in the third round.  That happened in both fights maybe because he was carrying that extra weight at 170 lbs.  In 155 lbs. he could be faster and lighter but Alvarez could employ the same strategy he used vs Pettis.  Make McGregor wrestle for his life and I have no idea how he would react to that.  And Alvarez is good at boxing too.  Watch his old fights on Youtube.  He's quite good with his hands.

That's a brave bet.  I assume you got good better odds than usual to make the bets?  But yeah, thinking more about it a 0 - 0 score line is also possible.  I even fancy a United win with a 0 - 1 score line.  That would make the LFC fans go nuts.  I hope to see that happen. 

Date: Saturday, December 30th
Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass):  3:30pm PST / 6:30pm EST
Preliminary Card (Fox Sports 1):  5pm PST / 8pm EST
Main Card (PPV):  7pm PST / 10pm EST
Live Streams: http://firstrowus1.eu/




Main Card (PPV)

Amanda Nunes (13-4) vs. Ronda Rousey (12-1) (Women's Bantamweight Championship)
Dominick Cruz (22-1) vs. Cody Garbrandt (10-0) (Bantamweight Championship)
Fabricio Werdum (21-6-1) vs. Cain Velasquez (14-2) (Heavyweight)
T.J. Dillashaw (13-3) vs. John Lineker (29-7) (Bantamweight)
TBA vs. TBA

Preliminary Card (Fox Sports 1)

Johny Hendricks (17-5) vs. Neil Magny (18-5) (Welterweight)
Dong Hyun Kim (21-3-1) vs. Tarec Saffiedine (16-5) (Welterweight)
Mike Pyle (27-12-1) vs. Alex Garcia (13-3) (Welterweight)
Louis Smolka (11-2) vs. Ray Borg (9-2) (Flyweight)

Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass)

Tim Means (26-7-1) vs. Alex Oliveira (15-4-1) (Welterweight)
Antonio Carlos Junior (6-2) vs. Marvin Vettori (11-2) (Middleweight)
Brandon Thatch (11-4) vs. Niko Price (8-0) (Welterweight)

Other

- Johny Hendricks stated that he will retire from MMA if he loses to Neil Magny. (It's not a knock on Magny, more so that Hendricks' career is basically done and he knows if he can't win this fight, he should quit -- he is 1-3 in his last 4 fights, and that one win was him taking Matt Brown down 9 times and winning by decision and not doing much damage at all).

- Matt Brown was expected to face former Strikeforce Welterweight Champion Tarec Saffiedine at the event. However, Brown was pulled from the fight on November 11 in favor of a match-up with former UFC Lightweight Championship challenger Donald Cerrone three weeks earlier at UFC 206. Brown was replaced by Dong Hyun Kim on November 16.

- Maryna Moroz was very briefly linked to a fight with Jessica Andrade at the event. On December 7 Moroz was replaced by Invicta FC Strawweight Champion Angela Hill. Hill was then ruled out of fighting at UFC 207 because of a rule in the UFC's anti-doping policy with USADA. Subsequently, promotion officials have not determined whether or not they would attempt to find a replacement to face Andrade, or reschedule her for another event.

- Sabah Homasi was linked to a fight with Brandon Thatch at the event. However, Homasi pulled out due to injury and was replaced by promotional newcomer Niko Price on December 12.

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I more or less would tend to give most of those matches the same predictions if I was forced to put the scores.  But I disagree with the Liverpool vs Man United game.  I think that match will be a low scoring one.  Maybe 1 - 0 or 2 - 0 for a Liverpool win.

I'm curious what was the fundamental reason why you decided to short sell Dash?  As you can see, I make decision mostly be looking at the charts and see where the price momentum goes relative to the volume and Bitcoin's price movements.  So it's purely technical.  But I'm interested in the fundamentals as well and I want to learn how to trade using it.  I was wondering if you could enlighten us by explaining what are the fundamental issues to watch out for when deciding to go long or short.

A Week in Review

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It's not really an eventful week for the bulls but definitely the bears are loving the markets right now.  With BTC starting to break out again, are we seeing the start of another altcoin bear market?

I'm rooting for McGregor to win so that he could make history but I would have to agree with Clement.  McGregor is far from being a compete fighter as he's skills in the ground, while it's not weak, it's not particularly strong either.  So I think I'm holding my bet for this fight atm and wait for the lines to move.  This fight could be closer to a coin flip than everyone realizes and some could even argue that Alvarez's relentless style and experience could edge out McGregor.  If the odds go higher on Alvarez as the fight nears then I would bet on him.  And I believe it will happen the day before the fight because the casual bettors will be piling in money on McGregor.  But if I could get odds better than 1.80 on the Irishman then I would take it.  But that's doubtful.

Hey guys.  First of all a warning.  I'm making these bets from my POV so if you have any opinions or you think I'm wrong, let's discuss them.  But I suggest reading what I post with an open mind.  Thanks.

This week I have only two bets that I'm really comfortable with.  The first one is the Crystal Palace vs West Ham game this Saturday.  I think Crystal Palace has the edge here because they are at home, they have a decent attacking front with Chadli, Townsend, Zaha and Benteke and also West Ham seems to be struggling in defense.  I don't know how much the international break will affect each team but I assume it would not be that much.  So for a little bit of safety and to reduce variance my bet is Crystal Palace to win, 0, -0.5 at 1.88.

My second bet is in the Liverpool vs Man United game.  This is the most exciting game of the week and everyone seems to be expecting LFC to demolish United since LFC is in form and United is still looking for it.  Imho, in this match, Mourinho will be parking the bus.  He's good at this strategy and used it in various games vs good attacking squads.  He did it in big games with Chelsea, Inter Milan and Real Madrid to great effect.  Although I expect United to lose, the scoreline might be 1 - 0.  They will give Liverpool a hard time scoring.  I can already see Blind being positioned at left back again to neutralized Mane.  That would be fun to watch.  So my bet is under 2.5 goals at 2.13
 

Schweinteiger was already deteriorating at Bayern when they sold him to United.  Why do you think he was sold in the first place.  This remains unsaid by United but I think Schweinteiger has a recurring injury when he left Bayern that they're hiding from the public so that they wouldn't have a hard time unloading him.  I remember watching a Mourinho interview where he was furious when he was asked about Schweinteiger's situation.  Mourinho said something like "if Bayern is angry in the way I'm treating him and since they think he's still a good player, why don't they buy him back?"

I'm not sure if that's really the case but from reading all the news and interviews, that's the impression I got.

The strategy is fine.  I'm willing to take small losses as the wins make up for them giving me a decent margin to gain some profit.  While whipsaws are part of the way I trade, sometimes it gets really frustrating especially when markets go flat.

Edit:  ETC is a short as well.  You can do it on Kraken.

It really depends how in form their team is and if there are injuries with their key players.  There was a reason why Bayern Munich couldn't win under their new manager at that time which was Pep Guardiola.  He stayed there for three years and brought with him new tactics, strategy and a new philosophy.  But still no CL trophy.  And even the best in the tournament which are Barca and Real are both not a sure bet.  This is because of the tournament format and the draw made before the KO stages and the quarter finals.  Luck becomes a bigger factor in that format.

DASH/BTC:  Is it Time to Go Short?  ... No really, is it?



Here's another signal to go short that I'm sitting my hands on.  I have made two moves on this that resulted in two small losses.  So I guess the better option for now is to wait for a couple of weeks more and see if the trend down is real by confirming it through the price movement.  And keep in mind that the scenario is changing in the markets as BTC might be on its way up as mentioned from my post above this.  So altcoin shorters be ready.

Not unless China steps in and pumps the hell out of this.  And the current movement looks the same as the one on 2015 when BTC was around 200 - 230 USD.  Check out the chart from August 25, 2015 to October 10, 2015.  That was just before China stepped in and pumped it above 400 USD.  If you're waiting for a pull back it might not come anymore.  It's better to start nibbling at it small and slowly than regret not holding some for the big rise.

That's really hard to say until you see the draw in the knock out stages.  What if Bayern Munich drew Barca or Real in the KO stages or the quarter finals?  Luck plays a very big factor in the CL because it's a tournament format.  And the draw at every stage makes it feel kinda like a lottery.

Hahaha.  Nice one! 

But seriously though, I think Mourinho will be parking the bus vs Liverpool this Monday.  He's known to do that vs good attacking teams and Man United is playing away so the more the chance that he would do that.  I will post my bet on this game in my betting thread later with my thought process, please make a comment if I am wrong or if you agree. 

Wow really?  I am jealous! 

Please post pictures and give us a live play by play if you can.  Have fun chanting and singing your songs.  That's so much fun especially drunk.

No comparison.  Klopp is a way better manager than Rodgers, no doubt about that.  The season when Liverpool finished second under Rodgers was arguably because they had an in form Suarez and Sturridge carrying the team.  Any decent manager could have finished in the top 4 with Liverpool for that season,

Is the whole event even pushing through?  I read on another forum that the event might not go on because the Philippine government wanted to drug test the whole UFC staff that was going over there.  Are they going to another venue?

Here's the link to the cancellation.

Report: UFC Fight Night 97 in Manila canceled due to ‘drug testing issues’
http://www.bjpenn.com/mma-news/ufc-fight-night-97/report-ufc-fight-night-97-manila-canceled-due-drug-testing-issues/

Same idea here.  But I would like to point out that Liverpool is kinda weak in set pieces from corner kicks.  Man United could take advantage of this by causing Liverpool to concede corners.  I think Rashford, Martial or Lingaard could just be the key players to do this.  Not to mention Ibra, Mata and to some extent Pogba.  The game vs Leicester has shown that United can be dominant in offensive aerial duels.  I hope to see it in their match this weekend.