2% max recommended unless otherwise noted. 1% max recommended for soccer.
Aiming high again this year!
2021 ($100/per bet)
Risked: $2500
Net: +$2000
Rate of Return: +80% profit
2019
Risked: $1300
Net: +$650
Rate of Return: +50% profit
2018
Risked: $1800
Net: +$1380
Rate of Return: +70% profit
2017
Risked: $1600
Net: +$450
Rate of Return: +33% profit
2016
Risked: $1400
Net: +$700
Rate of Return: +50% profit
Betting Psychology and Risk Management
This post is partially motivated by the incoming surge in official picks we are going to have as well as the dismay here some have experienced with the downturn we've had over the past few weeks. Risk-based moneymaking is not an easy pursuit and the vast majority of people who try their hand at it fail. It is important that you arm yourselves with as may tools as possible so that you will be in the profitable minority. Most people find it difficult enough to look at their investment portfolios during a relatively mild downturn, and that's with professional hedge fund managers doing insulating them from the very real challenges of risking our money and making a profit from it. Anyone who is active here is choosing to take that risk into their own hands. There are big rewards for this but also very big risks. This post is about preventing you from being taken out by those risk.
The primary way that we mount our offence us through our edge. A statistical...