January 16, 2012

Other Peoples Money

It’s time for an update on this service.

This is a very consistent service and did even better in 2011, with more than 10% more profit than in 2010. If you include the 27.1 points they made at Cheltenham, it turned out to be a very good year indeed.

Here’s the totals for 2011:

Betfair SP              Early prices

Jan +20.77         +27.99
Feb -6.11              +0.28
Mar -9.33              -5.47
Apr +26.03         +33.20
May +3.85           +9.37
Jun -4.47               -1.90
Jul +14.82           +18.87
Aug +6.48           +9.20
Sep +1.58             +3.33
Oct +15.42           +18.20
Nov -14.25            -12.10
Dec +8.91             +11.22

Totals +63.70     +112.19

Clearly taking the early prices is a must, as it usually is with value bets, but I wouldn’t turn my nose up at the SP profits either.

Here’s a couple of testimonials for the service:

“I have been with OPM for two-years this month and started with a betting bank of £4,000 and staked £100 each-way on all OPM selections. My bank has grown to a magnificent £23,200. That’s £19,200 pure profit plus my £4,000 starting balance – despite having endured half-a-dozen losing months along the way. I am obviously delighted, especially as I had a similar amount of £4,000 in my Nationwide savings account and gained a measly £210 in interest over the same period. Not that I would advocate putting all your eggs in one basket of course, but it goes to show the importance of having a diverse investment portfolio. Hope the next couple of years are equally as good!
C. O’Brien”

“I started on Jan 23 last year at £10 ew, gradually built the stakes, withdrew my initial £1000 bank in Oct and am currently up £1,013. So in summary I have DOUBLED my starting bank across the year and am now using bookie’s money.

Goal for this year is to increase that stakes gradually to £50 which will hopefully result in an income of about £5,000 pa assuming a 100 point gain across the year and my taking early prices. That would be fantastic”

Needless to say this remains firmly in the Approved category and should be taken under serious consideration as part of anyone’s betting portfolio.

You can join OPM here:

http://www.cash-master.com/OPM.php

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Filed under Backing,Each Way,Horse Racing Systems by Graham

January 16, 2012

Quick Trade FX

The trade from Friday just hit its profit target of 20 pips and we have a qualifying range for today although with US Bank Holiday I am not expecting it to trigger, but hopefully this is the start of some good trades.

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Filed under General by Jonathan Wakefield

January 16, 2012

Profitable Lays

Day 37 – 15 January:  Today -0.98 points. Total 21.34 points.

Overall Strike Rate is 53.55% with average odds of 2.87.
Overall return to £10 stakes is £134.46 and to £25 stakes is £336.15.

 

Folks, I know there was racing between 22nd and 29th December, but because I don’t get the printed version of the Racing Post I did not track these events. Apparently I have therefore ignored some 11.13 points of profit which makes the figures above look even better!

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Filed under Horse Racing Systems,Laying by Arthur

January 15, 2012

Bet Mentor

I’m going to be recording results for the Bet Mentor service.

Looking at the claimed previous results it appears that there are only ever one or two tips a day, so it looks to be targetted rather than a scattergun type approach.

The sign-up fee is £37 (+vat) for a year’s worth of tips and there is a 60 day money back guarantee (clickbank) if not satisfied.

All bets are Asian Handicap Markets and are delivered via email. I’ve said before on trials that I really don’t like Handicap bets but I’m willing to be converted and if this service lives up to the claims on the sales page then I’ll be more than happy to change my ways. They claim an 87% strike rate and Return On Investment of around 50% per month, so we shall see how close to those figures we can get during the trial.

There’s no real advice on bank size or points to stake but they do say that you can start off with as little as £10 bets and build from there, so that’s what I’ll be doing.

I received my first tip today and I’m pleased to say that the price advised in the email was easily available with several big online bookmakers.

And a nice winning start it was too :

Ath Bilbao -1 @ 1.97 WON +9.70

RUNNING P/L +£9.70

 

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Filed under Football by Liam

January 15, 2012

Boys Beat Girls

WEEK 8

The 8th week has arrived and with a sense of relief I might add.

This week, just four selections – two making it to the post first, further damaging the bank .

 

10/01/2012 15:25 Ecoaisse STH £9.36 4.4 1 -£31.82
15:55 Bianca De Medici STH £9.36 £8.89
12/01/2012 18:45 Sunset Kitty KMP £8.21 4.1 1 -£25.45
13/01/2012 16:10 Pulsatilla WLV £6.94 £6.59

 

From the start, this particular system was not one to set my pulses racing … and little else to be honest,  with so few selections making the shortlist, particularly in the later weeks of this trial (39 lay selections over eight weeks!). Maybe the tail end of the  year was not working in this systems favour.

The lay selections are easy enough to find once you get into the mindset using the simple selection criteria.

Of the three staking strategies discussed in the E-Book I chose the most agressive using a 5% rolling bank. This of course capitalises on an increasing balance with the good winning runs, but suffers the long climb back on lesser stakes after a loss.

Refreshingly, this particular system suggests laying at SP on Betfair. It also makes a suggestion of using a price range filter to keep the stake liabilites within sensible levels, (although the prices for these selections will never be much more than 5 and  generally speaking much less than 10).  From compiling of the results over the weeks, there were a number of losers(that would have been winning lays). Had I not been using the price filter, this may  have made the system a little more profitable over the term of the trial.

However, the claimed 80% strike rate we were supposed to reach was never achieved and we find  the bank at a lowly £138.77 after BF commission – suffering a £61.23 loss, the strike rate for the trial was actually running at 69%.

Showing a loss on the bank after eight weeks, I have no option but to send this system to the corner with a must try harder strike on its’ report and serve it as a FAILED system for the Cashmaster blog.

I have no doubt that this system could achieve the 80% strike rate claimed by the author and has done so with great success over previous years,  leading up to this point. The fundamental fact it exploits has been proven before. However, there are other very similar systems out there that exploit a  similar fact and perhaps anyone considering such a system out there should perhaps do their homework and check out other systems that exploit the foibles of the ‘fairer’ / equestrian sex.

Boys Beat Girls is no longer available.

 

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Filed under Horse Racing Systems,Laying by Guy

January 15, 2012

Trade 4X Pro

Just before Christmas I had a burst pipe and major water damage. Over the next 2 weeks I have a decorating crew working to repair this damage. It may be difficult, if not impossible, to do any trading at all over the next 2 weeks, and I won’t be trading on my personal account at all. I will try my best to follow this system, but I may miss some trades or even whole days.

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Filed under General by Arthur

January 15, 2012

BestLays

With the cancelled meetings due to frost, we have had just 11 selections qualifying in the last three betting days, two of which were winners. Result is that we knocked 4.15pts off the deficit and now stand only 2.6pts below break even.

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Filed under General by Terry Shepherd

January 15, 2012

Profitable Lays

Day 36 – 14 January:  Today 4.51 points. Total 22.32 points.

Overall Strike Rate is 54.75% with average odds of 2.87.
Overall return to £10 stakes is £144.26 and to £25 stakes is £360.65.

 

Folks, I know there was racing between 22nd and 29th December, but because I don’t get the printed version of the Racing Post I did not track these events. Apparently I have therefore ignored some 11.13 points of profit which makes the figures above look even better!

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Filed under Horse Racing Systems,Laying by Arthur

January 14, 2012

Profitable Lays

Day 35 – 13 January:  Today -8.15 points. Total 17.81 points.

Overall Strike Rate is 55.29% with average odds of 2.88.
Overall return to £10 stakes is £105.16 and to £25 stakes is £262.90.

 

Folks, I know there was racing between 22nd and 29th December, but because I don’t get the printed version of the Racing Post I did not track these events. Apparently I have therefore ignored some 11.13 points of profit which makes the figures above look even better!

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Filed under Horse Racing Systems,Laying by Arthur

January 13, 2012

BestLays

Better news from this service in the first two days since the last report and they got us just to break even since the adjustment of the odds limits, but a bit of a slump yesterday put us 7.4pts into the red.

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Filed under General by Terry Shepherd