LEARNODDS & PROBABILITY

What Is Line Movement?

Lines move on news, money and disagreement. Direction, size and timing turn a moving line into information.

2 MIN READ · BETTORWISE RESEARCH · EXAMPLES MARKED AS ILLUSTRATIVE

A prop opens at 27.5 and closes at 29.0. Nothing about the player changed as much as the market’s opinion of him did — minutes news, matchup reports, and other bettors’ money all repriced the same player.

Read the whole move

A single snapshot tells you the price; a history tells you the story. Which books moved first? How far? Did the price move with the line or against it?

09:08 27.5 −110 · 12:32 28.0 −105 · 15:47 28.5 −110 · 18:09 29.0 −115 (ILLUSTRATIVE)

Movement is the market thinking

Bettorwise records every snapshot it sees, timestamped, so movement can be inspected rather than remembered. If the line already moved onto your opinion, the price you liked may not exist anymore.

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