Ante-Post scoring well for Lunchtime Profit Alert…

Back in October I introduced Lunchtime Profit Alert as a good way to make a profit with very little effort on a Friday.

This is an advisory service where members receive an email each Friday lunchtime (GMT) advising them of 2 or 3 wagers for the weekend. The recommendations are for UK or European football (soccer) games to be played that weekend.

In the early season, Richie Forbes, who writes the Lunchtime Profit Alert provided several wagers that are known as Ante-Post, in other words they won’t be decided immediately and will need to be tracked over a longer time period. The benefit with this sort of wager is that the odds on offer are normally very attractive as little is known in the early stages as to what the final outcome might be.

Richie has already had one success as the manager of Portsmouth Football Club was correctly predicted to be the first to lose his job in the UK Premiership this season.

There are several other Ante-Post wagers currently open and whilst nothing is guaranteed they look to have a good chance of success.

As the months go by it’s good to see that the Lunchtime Profit Alert is getting more in tune with its memberships wishes. As well as the Friday email Richie now sends out an update each Monday reporting how things went and some views on whether the results reflect what was forecast.

He also sends out irregular updates on other wagers if he feels they would add to the profit pot.

I’d have to say that his success on his weekend wagers has been somewhat mixed so this is not a service that will sky rocket your earnings overnight, however given the investment required to join the service it is a very worthwhile addition to a portfolio for the long term potential. To mitigate any potential losses Richie does recommend the level of staking to use for each recommendation and this reflects the level of confidence in has in each.

The service fee is £27 ($45) for 12 months which I believe is serious value for money given the potential. Readers should note that most recommendations get the best odds on betting exchanges and these are not always available in some countries. However, Richie also gives odds available at traditional bookmakers, all of which welcome online accounts.

Sports Arbitrage trading, one of my favourites…

If I had to choose just one way to make money online then I’d have to say Sports Arbitrage trading would be it. I love the idea of being able to make a trade on a sports event that will pay me out whatever the end result.

Alas, being successful is not easy on a personal level as I have found to my cost in the past. But of course with any profitable money making opportunity others will find a way to make it work. And so it is with Sports Arbitrage.

In this post I want to showcase Sport Arbs who provide a service whereby they trade using your funds and you sit back and earn good profits. I first came across them when I opened an account with Global Digital Pay as they are a company that have just signed up to accept the new payment processor.

If you look on the home page you’ll see that for the first week in November the returns have been a little over 2% per day. In fact they quote a return of 88.49% over the preceding 42 day period which is very respectable.

Sport Arbs show that they are based in Dubai and they are open to being contacted if potential investors would like more details about the opportunity. Interestingly they have determined that the optimum amount of funding to have for arbitrage is $3M. I’m not sure how they arrived at that figure but they do say they will be striving to reach that sum by raising capital from private sources.

Probably as no surprise the returns on offer are dependent on the success of the arbitrage traders so it is not possible to predict exactly how much you can earn each day.

The investment plans on offer provide a good range of options and are primarily based on the level of investment you make. Firstly, there is the 42 day plan where you can invest at 3 levels, up to $999 you receive the variable daily profit, from $1000 to $4999 you receive the variable daily profit plus 3% bonus and from $5000 to $9999 you receive the variable daily profit plus 5% bonus.

The second set of plans run for 210 days and return the following: for between $10000 and $29999 you will get the daily variable rate plus 0.2% daily plus a 6% bonus. For investments from $30000 to $49999 you receive the daily variable rate plus 0.4% daily plus an 8% bonus and finally for $50000 to $100000 you receive the daily variable rate plus 0.5% daily plus a 10% bonus.

As they say on the site the second plan is the more profitable but for most people I’m guessing that the level of investment required would be something of a stretch so plan one would be more appropriate.

Sport Arbs currently accept Global Digital Pay, Perfect Money and Liberty Reserve. They are working to accept StrictPay, SolidTrustPay and AlertPay shortly.

I’ve made an investment as I believe that this is a reliable source of earning and I’d encourage you to take a look for yourself to see if it would suit your own investment strategy.

Activity on current ventures…

In this post I want to make reference to some newer sources of potential income that I’ve mentioned recently. Firstly, I’m currently paper trading using the Ultimate Betting System that I received in the middle of April. I did some paper trading during the last two weeks of that month and whilst I made a paper profit I’ve decided to try it for a full month using the same criteria that the owner of the program, Phil Moulds uses. This way I can make a more balanced decision on its potential.

I should mention that I’m highly impressed by the package both in terms of what you get for your money and the potential that exists. Both the User Guide and accompanying videos are well produced and very comprehensive. Personally I am testing the system using UK Horse racing although Phil does say that his package is suitable for other sports. I like it for horse racing as the selection method that he uses in the User Guide is very simple to follow and it only takes 30 minutes a day to make the selections. The one drawback I do face with the Ultimate Betting System at the moment is that I can’t follow the race results in real time due to work commitments so I am generally having to do a retrospective analysis which means I may be missing out on some of the better odds that would be available if I was able to monitor things as they happen.

The next thing I wanted to mention was the IYCU newsletter that is produced by Gerald Deer. His latest issue advises that he is about to let his subscribers know about 8 new passive investment opportunities. This should be very interesting as Gerald does a lot of research before he makes any recommendations so if you want to learn more please send an email to geralddeer@safe-mail.net with the subject line IYCU.

The final program I wanted to cover today is the Global Wealth Builders Offshore Privacy Club as they are now in formal pre-launch. Those of us who have already signed up will be hot-footing our membership payments this month. From what I can see the program administrators are trying very hard to make the process as simple and easy as possible. There are three levels of membership with Diamond being the most lucrative. The annual diamond membership fee is $290 which I think is reasonable given the potential for profit that exists.

Leverage the skill of others to make money…

Yesterday I received an email that was an endorsement for the Ultimate Betting System and thought I’d see what is on offer. Clicking on the link brings you to a fairly standard sales page where you are introduced to Phil Moulds who straightaway admits to being somewhat of a gambling novice who has developed a software package that made some good money for him.

In fact he claims to have turned a £1,000 betting bank into just shy of £25,000 since September 2005. Phil seems to focus on using the system with UK horse racing but the banner at the top of the page claims it can be used with many other sports.

As you read down the page you learn that there is a system to be followed which is fully explained when you purchase. Like all good sales pages there are quite a few testimonials posted which gives some reassurance to the potential buyer…or does it? One thing I do when looking at sales pages like this is to visit any testimonial where there is a website listed. By doing this I am hoping to find an endorsement of the product. Unfortunately this rarely happens which I find very disappointing as the whole point of a testimonial is to provide a potential purchaser with proof that the person does actually think the product or service is worth investing in. This is not to criticise Phil as he clearly doesn’t have any influence over other people’s websites but for me it does detract somewhat from the effectiveness of the testimonial.

Reading more about the Ultimate Betting System you learn that you don’t have to have any experience in gambling although you will need to dedicate some time to applying the system for it to work properly. In fact this is the biggest obstacle for me as when I looked at the detailed results that Phil gives you access to (by separate application) you see that operating the system does require you to have ready access to racing results so that you can learn whether to place the next wager or not. Currently this is not practical for me and I suspect many others although in Phil’s defence he does address this by saying that a reasonable profit can still be achieved by just operating at the weekend.

If you go to the end of the page you will learn about the bonuses that Phil is offering when you purchase. The one thing that caught my eye was the provision of a series of videos that showed you exactly how the system works. I always find it very useful to watch something being done as it confirms the steps you read and sometimes provides the missing link that text may not always contain.

Phil is offering the Ultimate Betting System at £97 as he is keen to get people to use it and send him some more testimonials for a more widespread release in the future. When this happens the cost is likely to rise. I don’t have any real knowledge of whether this is just a sales pitch or a genuine offer to early buyers. What it does mean is that I might buy it (it does have a 30 day money back guarantee) in the knowledge that I won’t be able to profit from it fully until my working arrangements allow me some more flexibility.

Juicy Arbs?…

When I first started writing this blog I was focusing much of my attention on Sports Arbitrage Trading with Risk Free Profit as I saw that as one way to build up a good second income. As you can read in my post for the 2006 roundup I discontinued using their service on a regular basis because of problems with my bookmaker accounts being restricted (and no, I wasn’t trading $’000′s at a time).

Having said that I still like to keep an eye on what is happening in the sports arbitrage world and recently I came across a new offering from Juice Trading. They are a new venture that started towards the end of 2006. Their strategy is somewhat different to other providers in that they sell you the software directly rather than charge a monthly fee. The basic package is $99, a professional version is due out later but there is no information about the price as yet.

Whilst I was doing some research I came across a very good review of the software at the Sports Arbitrage Guide which I think gives a very balanced view of both the positives and negatives of the software. In summary it says that the package is a good starting point for those who want to venture into the world of arbitrage. As they work with a limited number of bookmakers there will always be a trade-off against more expensive services but it certainly means that for beginners there is now a very economical starting point.