It's finally over; the Cricket World Cup has been put to bed in nothing short of farcical fashion. Although after all that's transpired in the Caribbean it would have been a real shame if the best team didn't win the competition. Fortunately the Aussies can thank Adam Gilchrist for producing one of the finest one day knocks ever seen which would have pleased one client who bought the keeper's Performance at 58 for £20 (1 point per run, 10 points per catch, 25 points per stumping). Man of the match 'Gilly' hit a stupendous 149 from 104 balls, took one catch and made one stumping to take his Performance market to a total of 194 and cement a £2,720 profit for the very satisfied client.

We have seen some serious excitement in the snooker this week. Take the quarter-final between Shaun Murphy and Matthew Stevens. Stevens resumed the final session 11-5 ahead needing only two frames to seal victory. One client, who saw into the future, decided to buy the Murphy Win Index at the start of the session at 1.5 for £50 (25 points for winning, 0 points for losing). The Englishman went on to pull off one of the finest Crucible comebacks in history, with the shell-shocked Stevens managing to win only one further frame, thus pocketing the clairvoyant client £1,175. World Championship Snooker - you better catch it now before it's too late!

Two tales of woe involving the red half of Manchester dominate the bad trades section this week, starting with that incredible game at Goodison Park on Saturday. One client could not believe his misfortune when he sold Man U's Total Goal Minute Supremacy at 36 for £5 (the Total Goal Minutes of each goal scored by one team versus the Total Goal Minutes of the other). The punter was staring at a £490 profit as Everton sensationally went 2-0 up with goals in the 12th and 50th minutes. That was until United woke up and scored 296 minutes worth of goals to give the market a final make-up of 234 and leave the client with a £990 loss. The awesome comeback destroyed the client's dream of any profit but keep United's Premiership dream firmly intact.

Another client who was on the end of a Manchester United trading tragedy was one who bought their Team Goal Minutes at 65 for £4. After Milan went two goals up at the rain soaked San Siro the client could have been expecting Man U to really go for it but regrettably for this punter the best they could muster was a skewed second-half shot wide of the Rossoneri post by Darren Fletcher, meaning that the result of the market finished at a big fat zero. It must have been so frustrating for the client who ended up having to nurse a £260 blow to the hip.