Plus 500 Plus 500 is a trading platform for trading CFDs on shares, indices, commodities, ETFs and Options.

They are listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange and sponsor Athletico Madrid Football team.

Here we have a look in more detail at what you can trade on the Plus 500 platform:

Shares

You can trade share CFDs from over 20 countries including the USA, Germany, UK, France and many more. 

In terms of the UK market, that means FTSE 100 stocks like Barclays, Next and Rolls-Royce as well as newcomers such as Ocado and Royal Mail.

The great thing about trading is that you go short or long on shares, depending on how you see the various companies in question.

There are no exchange commissions with Plus 500 and you save 0.5% compared to a traditional UK share purchase.

In addition, you can trade shares on leverage, meaning you only have to deposit a certain percentage of the cost of purchasing the share outright, giving you more potential capital to trade with.

However, be warned that you don’t become over-leveraged as that can lead to difficulties. Make sure you only trade on leverage what you definitely can afford and don’t become over-exposed should the market turn against you.

To guard against that, you can set stop losses and profit targets so that you position is closed if the stock reaches a certain price.

 

Commodities

 

Some of the most exciting markets to trade are commodities. You can trade everything from oil to gold, coffee and sugar, plus many more.

With commodities having hit very low levels in recent times, there may be some bargains at current prices as demand may well increase in coming years. Or perhaps you think there is still lower to go in the commodities markets, with China’s economy still in difficulty and with a glut in oversupply.

Whatever your views, Plus 500 offers a great place to trade a wide range of commodity markets.

 

Indices

There are a broad range of indices available to trade on Plus 500, including the FTSE 100, S&P500, DAX, CAC, Nasdaq and many more.

Indices represent an attractive option for lots of people as they represent trading a range of different companies together as one instrument. So you may have a feeling about the general direction of the market, being a bear or bull, rather than having a particular view about a specific company.

Indices have been very volatile in recent times with turbulent global markets, so there are opportunities for the shrewd investor!

 

Forex

The forex markets are the largest traded markets in the world, with over $4 trillion traded each day. Forex markets operate 24 hours per day.

 

Plus 500 have very low margins on their Forex markets, with just 2 pips on the EUR/USD for example.

Plus 500 offer a good number of forex markets to choose from, including the main markets such as EUR/USD, GBP/USD and EUR/JPY as well as more exotic markets such as AUD/CHF and GBP/NOK.

There is also excellent leverage offered – with up to 1:200 available. So you could theoretically start trading with as little as £200 to trade the equivalent of £40,000 – although again, be careful not to over-leverage yourself!

They also have a free trading platform and plenty of professional graphs for you to take advantage of in your trading.

 

ETFs

An ETF is an exchange traded fund and there are plenty of options with Plus 500.

There are low spreads and Plus 500 does not charge dealing commissions on ETFs. Leverage is also good with levels up to 1:100 available.

 

Options

With Plus 500 you can get Call or Put options CFD on the Dax 30, S&P500, CAC 40, MIB 40, AEX 25. 

Again the spreads are low and there is no commission charged. 

 

About Plus 500

Plus500 UK Ltd is based in London and Plus 500 is one of the highest rated CFD trading apps on Apple’s App Store and Google Play. It is simple to use yet has many advanced features.

The company was founded in 2008 and has been pioneering in many developments in the trading of financial markets. They launched the first Bitcoin CFD in the world in 2013 and introduced a “guaranteed stop” facility in 2014. 

Plus500 UK Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FRN 509909). Plus500 CY LTD is authorised and regulated by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (License No. 250/14). Plus500AU Pty Ltd, AFSL #417727 issued by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission is authorized to issue these products to Australian residents. You do not own or have any right to the underlying assets. 

 

 

 

 

 

We continue our effort to break down the barriers created by complex betting terms that restrict how those not in the know bet, by checking out the Super Yankee bet and making it easier to get your head around.

How did the Super Yankee bet get its name?

First things first – how did the Super Yankee gets its name? The story goes that an American gambler – possibly a soldier – won a huge amount of money with just a small stake using this type of bet while in the UK, and thus the Super Yankee bet was born.

The Super Yankee bet is exactly the same as the Canadian bet, and is also pretty similar to the lucky 31 bet; you can find simple explanations of both the Canadian bet and lucky 31 bet elsewhere on Honest Betting Reviews.

How do you place a Super Yankee bet?

The Super Yankee is made up of 26 different bets based around five selections. The first wager is a five-fold accumulator, which places all five picks together for the best odds.

Next up will is five different four-fold accumulators, with one different selection removed from each. You will find that the four-fold accumulators still present you with reasonable odds, yet ensure that if only one selection fails to come through, you can still get a decent return.

The rest of the Super Yankee is made up of ten trebles, where the five selections are placed in threes, and finally ten doubles. The only difference between a Super Yankee bet and a lucky 31 bet is that the Super Yankee bet does not include any single bets.

While there is an increased stake and increased risk involved in a lucky 31, the fact bookmakers often offer bonuses on it means it may be worth upgrading from a Super Yankee bet in some circumstances.

Each selection has an equal effect on the return in a Super Yankee bet, and a single loss can reduce winnings dramatically.

How do you win a Super Yankee bet?

To make our example of how you would win a Super Yankee bet easy to understand, we will play it out as if the odds on all five selections were evens. If this were the case then you would need four out of the five selections to be right to make a profit, and obviously all five right to maximise your return.

Obviously it is not easy to work out what a Super Yankee bet could win you with five selections with differing odds, so use an online calculator to see how it would work out for you based on your selections. However, you will see a return as long as two selections come in.

Super Yankee bets are popular with horse racing aficionados, as each way bets are possible, ensuring you do not lose out completely should a selection come second.

So that is one more betting term explained. If you would like explanations of other betting terms, check out the other guides on Honest Betting Reviews.

We all love placing a football accumulator. The thrill of potentially winning hundreds – or even thousands – of pounds off just one bet is quite an attractive proposition. 

And as each leg of your acca comes in, it gets more and more exciting. 

Once you get to the final one, it becomes positively nerve-wrecking as you wait to see if you have pulled it off. And if you have, then BOOM! It’s party time.

And all it needs is for a few teams to win their matches – they could even all be favourites. After all, how often do you see the likes of Arsenal, Man Utd, Chelsea and City all winning in the same weekend.

It must be easy, right?

Wrong.

 

The bookies love accumulators

I will let you in on a little secret: the bookies love accumulators.

They love punters who place accumulators even more.

Do you know why?

Because accumulators are terrible value for the punter. Basically you are multiplying together the bookies’ edge over you.

Instead of a normal bet where the bookie might have a 10% edge over you, they will have a 30, 40 or even 50% edge over you.

So it’s pretty much impossible to win over the long term with accas – unless you get very lucky and win a massive acca – like the pools or something. 

But that is like praying for a lottery win – in other words, extremely unlikely to happen.

What if there was a way to turn this around though and profit from every single accumulator you place – to kick the bookies where it hurts and take cash off them on a regular basis?

 

How to win every single acca you place

Well, the good news is there is a way.

It comes courtesy of a product we have reviewed here recently at Honest Betting Reviews called Accumulator Generator.

Basically what it does is take advantage of the bookies’ accumulator offers.

The great thing about it is that you can make around £10 per accumulator you place, whatever happens – win or lose.

So if you do just one a day that would be £70 per week or £300 per month.

And if you do 2 a day, it will be £140 per week and £600 per month – that would add up to over £7,000 per year – with no risk!

 

How do the bookies acca offers work? 

Well basically most of the bookies have offers where if one leg of your acca loses, they will refund your stake as a free bet, up to a maximum of £50. 

There are currently over 20 bookies with these offers. The amount of the refund varies, for some of them is £25 and others right up to £50.

 

How does Accumulator Generator work?

What Accumulator Generator does is use these offers so that whatever happens, you will make a profit.

Firstly, it has some awesome software that scans all the possible accumulators and compares them to the odds available with Betfair. 

Here is a look at the software:

On the left in red is the estimated amount you can win on each acca. There is also information on how long the acca will take to be completed, the bookie it is with and the current total bookie odds versus the current total Betfair odds.

You can then click on the purple icon and you will be taken through to the calculator which shows you the accumulator and how to set up each leg.

The great thing is there are literally hundreds of offers every day, so you will have plenty to choose from.

 

Four Approaches

There are different approaches you can take to the accumulators, depending on your aversion to risk. In total there are four different methods for playing the accumulators:

1. Bet/lay and hope – this is an approach where you hope that just one leg loses and you will get the value of the refund as a free bet. If no legs lose or two or more do, then you make a small loss.
2. Bonuses – this is a progressive approach where you make more money the further down your accumulator you get before hitting a loser.  
3. Lock in a profit – this is our preferred method – as the name suggests, you guarantee a profit whatever happens. So you could have two, three or more losing legs and you will win the same as if just one or none lose. You tend to make about £10 on average from a £50 stake in guaranteed profit from this method.
4. Advantage play – this is a more basic method of just playing some accas and not laying them off, but relying on enough of the refunds coming in to keep you in profit (although we are not sure that you need Accumulator Generator to use this method).

As I say, the best method is the lock-in profit method that allows you to make a guaranteed profit whatever happens.

On some occasions, the odds will drift out from those you have backed with the bookies, so you will be laying at higher odds and will make less profit.

But on other occasions, the odds will move in and you will end up making more than you originally anticipated.

 

Things to watch out for

There are a few things to watch out for with Accumulator Generator.

First up, if you are new to matched betting, then it will take a while to watch the training videos and get fully up to speed on how it works. It will also take a bit of practice to get used to it, but once you have done a few accumulators, it will become pretty much automatic.

Secondly, you will have to log in to the software between matches to lay off the next leg of your accumulator.

Sometimes there will be just one match per day on your acca, so you will only have to log in to the software once per day and then you are done.

On other days though, there will be more than one match per day so you will have to remember to log back in to the software between matches and lay the next leg of your accumulator. It can be easy to forget! So best to have some sort of reminder system in place so you don’t miss any legs of your accas.

Finally, as with all matched betting products, there is the worry of having your bookie accounts closed or limited.

However, as long as you remember to spread your bets around and to not overdo it, then you should be ok with this.

As we said at the beginning, the bookies love punters who place accumulators, so they will be less likely to hit you with an account limit using this than with some other betting systems.

 

Conclusion – How to Win Football Accumulators 

The bookies love football accumulators. As a punter you are normally getting terrible value and the bookie has a massive edge over you. 

To win at football accumulators without knowing the future like an oracle or Biff in the Back to the Future II, or being some kind of betting genius is virtually impossible.

But with a product like Accumulator Generator, you can turn the bookies’ advantage over you on its head. 

By using its amazing software you can profit from every single football accumulator you place. Doing just two of these per day would net you £600 per month, or over £7,000 per year.

Not bad eh?

So there you have it – the definitive way to win at football accumulators.

Have a go at it and let us know how you get on – you can thank us later 🙂  

 

The pantheon of great British race horses has to place the Canadian expatriate Nijinsky II near the top of the heap. Although he was foaled in Canada in 1967, out of the mare Flaming Page (who shared the bloodlines of the magnificent Gallant Fox, Omaha, and Man O’War) by the equally equine royalty Northern Dancer, he was the brightest star in British racing during his illustrious career.  

While anyone who follows racing knows Northern Dancer as one of the premier studs of the 20th century, Nijinsky’s dam isn’t as world renowned (mares seldom are). But Flaming Page won not only the Canadian Oaks and the Queens Plate within eight days of each other, she came in second in the Kentucky Oaks. Nijinksy was bred to win, and win he did.

Movie Star Colt

The colt landed at Ireland’s Ballydoyle stable, the home of the great trainer Vincent O’Brien, as a yearling. He was a big chestnut colt with a heart-shaped star and three socks and had his dam’s conformation–a classic Thoroughbred head, a large, deep chest with plenty of scope, and an elegant body. The only fault in his conformation was a slight sickle to his hocks, and he was rather cow-hocked when viewed from behind.

He was a movie star of a colt, and had the temperament to match. Upon Nijinsky’s arrival at Ballydoyle be refused to eat at first, and he didn’t have many fans in the barn he was so difficult to manage.  Later he would suffer such anxiety going into the starting gate that he would work himself int a full lather in the post parade. 

The Terrible Twos

Nijinsky acted out his terrible twos when they finally would coax him out onto the turf as well–just getting him out of his box was on ordeal for the stable lads. He reared and bucked his way into the grooming and tacking stalls, but as one of the grooms noted, he had superb balance and never “toppled over”. 

O’Brien put his flat racers through a training regimen that would give today’s trainers heart attacks. No coddling around the track in a breezy hand gallop for these charges; their day began with

……a walk in the Ballydoyle training ring, followed by “the gallops” out on the rugged terrain surrounding the stable. The gallops took place over the kind of area normally associated with (fox) hunting –acres of inclines, declines and flat going.

Tough Regimen Pays Off

With Nijinsky, as with most of O’Brien’s horses, the tough regimen paid off. The big bay won his first outing as a two year old, the Erne Stakes. He went on to win his four other starts that year, and ended the season as Champion Two Year Old in Ireland and England. Each race O’Brien had his jockey push him a little harder, but by the final race at Newmarket he admitted that the colt hadn’t really been challenged to run his fastest. Nijinsky was what trainers call a “fast stayer”–a horse who can accelerate and maintain speed as often as the race requires. 

Lester Piggott and the Triple Crown

Nijinsky teamed up with the legendary jockey Lester Piggott for his three year old season, and won the British Triple Crown–the 2000 Guineas, the Epsom Derby, and the St Leger. A bad bout of colic two days before the Derby would have taken a lesser colt out of the race, but O’Brien and  his team spent hours walking the colt and treating him the with old-fashioned colic remedies (any medication would show up in post-race tests) until Nijinsky’s spasms stopped and things went back to normal. He responded with the win in what  Piggott called “an easy canter”.  

The run-up to the final race in the triple Crown, the St Leger, also challenged the colt and trainer when Nijinsky developed ringworm. A diet that included as eggs and Irish stout aided his recovery, although race watchers have speculated that O’Brien didn’t want to saddle him for the St Leger because his back was still so tender, his owner Charles Engelhard felt like it was a good start up for the Arc de Triomphe in France a few weeks later.

He won the race, but lost an alarming amount of weight (29 lbs) and his jockey said later the colt wasn’t ready to run and while he won the Triple Crown, the first horse in 35 years to do so, the race took the heart out of him and he never ran with his old joy and abandon again. 

Photo-Finish at the Arc 

He ran the Arc on October, and in a heartbreaking photo-finish run, finished second to Sassafras. They had drawn the outside post in a crowded field and analysts who reviewed the tapes later said that the outside position that day would have been impossible for any other colt to come close, much less come up to lose in such a close finish. The great colt went on to lose his last race, the Champion Stakes, and went on to Claiborne Farm in Kentucky after his retirement. He stood stud with the great American chestnut colt Secretariat at Claiborne–the first two to win their respective Triple Crowns in over a generation. 

Nijinsky lived to the ripe old age of 25, when he was euthanized after suffering from laminitis. He was buried whole in the stud cemetery at Claiborne. Some of his notable progeny include Ile de Bourbon, Caerleon, Ferdinand, Shaded, and Sharastani. 

So much of successful racetrack betting hinges on your knowledge of the bloodlines of the horses running today. 

 

 

As we carry on with the Honest Betting Reviews series that breaks down and simplifies complicated betting jargon and types of bets to enable beginners to enjoy greater variety in their betting, we come to the reverse forecast bet.

So what is a reverse forecast bet? You may well have heard of a straight forecast bet before, which is where you are looking to choose who will finish first and second in a race. As you might expect from that, this type of bet is usually reserved for horse racing and greyhound racing, but it can also be used in sports like football to predict the winners and runners-up in a league, for example.

How do you place a reverse forecast bet?

A reverse forecast is an easier bet to place than a straight forecast bet, as you just have to pick the top two finishers of a particular race or sporting event; you do not have to get the order right as long as both of your two choices finish in the top two, which definitely makes predicting the outcome easier if you are confident about who the top two competitors are, but find it difficult to pick one over the other.

The other key difference between a reverse forecast bet and a straight forecast bet is that with the former it is actually two bets you will place as, in order for you to win no matter what order your two selections finish in, you need to place two straight forecast bets – one on each possible outcome.

When should you place a reverse forecast bet?

If you were betting on horse racing, and you think horse X and horse Y will finish first and second, but you cannot predict which will finish first and which will finish second, you place a straight forecast on horse X finishing first and horse Y finishing second, and a second straight forecast on horse Y being victorious and horse X following up.

The reverse forecast bet has elements of the each way bet to it, as you are placing an extra bet to cover you if your first selection comes in second instead. Placing a reverse forecast bet costs double what placing on a straight forecast bet does, but has the added benefit of covering two outcomes.

Most bookmakers offer reverse forecast bets alongside straight forecast bets – in most cases you simply choose ‘straight forecast’ or ‘reverse forecast’ on your betting slip. You can also place what is called a tricast bet, where another selection is thrown into the mix, so forecast bets are not confined to just straight forecast bets and reverse forecast bets.

Hopefully this guide has opened up another door to the world of betting for you, and helped you discover greater possibilities when it comes to making wagers. If you are after more simple yet comprehensive explanation of betting terms and types of bet, check out the other Honest Betting Reviews guides that break down betting jargon for your reading – and gambling – pleasure.

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