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UFC Tips (Punt Hub) – Results Update

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Something for a reversal for UFC Tips (Punt Hub) over the last month, with a loss of 67 points made for the short-term picks and 9 points for the long-term picks since our last update.

That means the short-term picks are 19 points down for our trial overall and the long-term picks are 1 point down. 

You can view full results here.

Just a reminder that there are two ways of following this service – the short term bankroll is a bank for that one evening, 100 units spread across all the selections for that fight night. 

The long-term is a more traditional approach of having a 100 point bank and backing the selections on a continual basis week-to-week. 

We will record both here for information purposes but the main one we will focus on is the long-term one as that is what our reviews normally focus on. 

 

 

 

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UFC Tips (Punt Hub)

26th July 2021

It’s been a good start to our trial of UFC Tips (Punt Hub), with a profit of 48 points made for the short-term picks and 8 points for the long-term picks so far. 

You can view full results here.

Just a reminder that there are two ways of following this service – the short term bankroll is a bankroll for that one evening, 100 units spread across all the selections for that fight night. 

The long-term is a more traditional of having a 100 point bank and backing the selections on a continual basis week-to-week. 

We will record both here for information purposes but the main one we will focus on is the long-term one as that is what our reviews normally focus on. 

 

 

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UFC Tips (Punt Hub)

26th July 2021

Mixed martial arts (MMA) is an increasingly popular sport to bet on and we have reviewed two good services in the field in recent times (check them out here and here).

Well today we are starting a new trial of another MMA service, UFC Tips from the Punt Hub stable of tipsters. 

It’s a relatively new service having just launched in June but results so far look very encouraging. To date they have made 42 points profit at an excellent ROI of 49%. 

They have two experts providing the selections and the tips come in a variety of markets including: to win the fight, how the fight ends and number of rounds. There are single bets and also parlays (accumulators). 

The service offers two staking systems – a short term and a long term. The short term is a bank you would just use for that weekend’s fights, as if you were just following the service for that event. On the other hand the long-term is more traditional form of using a 100 point bank and following the tips on a continual basis.

As all our reviews use the latter staking method that is what we will use for this trial. 

The good news is that the service is free at the moment as it’s still in its early phases so you can join up and follow along for free if you like.

In any event, we will undertake our standard review process and will report back soon on how things are going.

In the meantime you can check out UFC Tips (from Punthub) for yourself here.

 

 

 

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Premium Boxing Tips – Two Year Update

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Here at Honest Betting Reviews we like to keep an eye on services after we have completed our final review of them and not just forget about them.

This particularly applies to services that have received a positive rating, because it’s important to ensure they are still producing positive results and justifying the original stamp of approval we gave them.

In that spirit we are taking a look at Premium Boxing Tips again, which is a service we reviewed back in 2019 (please see below). They kindly kept on sending us the tips after our original review ended so we have been able to continue proofing their results.

So over two years later, how have they been getting on – and do they still deserve the PASSED rating we awarded them back in 2019?

Results Update

Well we are pleased to report that they have remained profitable, adding another 66 points profit since our original review ended.

That means in total they have made 183 points profit since we started proofing their tips, which is well worthy of a continued PASSED rating.

The long-term ROI stands at a more-than-respectable 14% and the strike rate is very good at 66%.

The subscription costs are very reasonable at just £19 per month or £208 per year so you can’t complain from that point of view.

Although the profit has been steady rather than spectacular over the last couple of years (as shown in the profit graph below), any profit at all is commendable and when you take into account their ROI and strike rate stats the service actually stacks up pretty well against any other in terms of long-term performance.

 

OVERALL VERDICT: PASSED

Having followed Premium Boxing Tips for going on for two and a half years now, we are happy to maintain our PASSED rating of it, as the service has made a profit of 183 points in total since we started following it with a high strike rate and solid ROI.

Well worth checking if you are into your boxing, or even if you aren’t!

 

 

 

 

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Premium Boxing Tips – Final Review

23rd May 2019

We have reached the end of our three month trial of Premium Boxing Tips and here are the final results:-

 

Profit/Loss:   +117 points
Strike Rate:   76%
Bank Growth:   47%
ROI:   40%
Average number of bets:   4 per week
Cost:   £19/month or £208/year
VERDICT:   PASSED
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You can view full results here.

 

Premium Boxing Tips – Full Review

 

Premium Boxing Tips is only the second boxing tipster we have reviewed here at Honest Betting Reviews. Whilst a lot of money is gambled on the big fights in boxing, it is still quite a niche sport in betting terms when compared to the “big two” of football and horse racing. 

However, perhaps that is a good thing because it opens up the potential for angles to exploit and value to be found where others aren’t paying so much attention.

That certainly seems to be the case with Premium Boxing Tips in any event, with an excellent profit of 117 points made during our trial. 

That was generated with a return on investment of 40%, which is absolutely top-notch. 

The strike rate was also a very healthy 76%, meaning long winning streaks and short losing ones, so really there was nothing not to like about the service!

Here you can see how steady the progress was during the trial:

You can tell from their very detailed write-ups that accompany the tips they really know their stuff, with an exceptionally in-depth knowledge of boxing. 

Most of the tips are accumulators of doubles, trebles or four-folds (which they refer to as parlays) and they advise which bookmaker to place the bets with – in most cases it is Bet365. A lot of the fights are not the really big clashes like Joshua v Povetkin etc but lesser-known figures. 

Overall it’s a pretty simple service to follow though and with results like these there is no question that this receives a PASSED rating – with bells on!

 

Service Breakdown

Ease of use: The tips are normally sent out well before the fights are due to start, with some accas spread out over a few weeks. With an average of just 4 bets per week, there isn’t too much effort involved in following the tips either.  

Availability of prices: We didn’t have too many problems getting the advised prices, most of the bets are advised with Bet365 but there are other bookies to choose from if you don’t have an account with them.

Strike rate: The strike rate for the trial was 76%, which is excellent and meant healthy bank growth during our trial. 

Advised Betting Bank: We didn’t see any bank recommended but used a 250 point bank for the trial, which seemed adequate to us given the strike rate and staking. 

Subscription costs: The subscription costs are very reasonable given the results achieved at just £19 per month or £208 per year.

 

OVERALL VERDICT: PASSED

Boxing is still quite a niche sport in betting terms but that opens up opportunities to find value for those in the know and Premium Boxing Tips clearly demonstrated during our trial that they are in the know. 

With an excellent profit of 117 points at a return on investment of 40% this passes our trial with flying colours. 

So if you fancy a bet on the boxing or just want to add a high quality tipster to your portfolio, then Premium Boxing Tips certainly fits the bill.

 

 

 

 

 

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Premium Boxing Tips – Results Update

17th April 2019

It’s been a good run for Premium Boxing Tips since our last update a month ago, with another 42 points profit added in that time.

That means they are now 57 points up for our trial overall.

You can view full results here.

As mentioned previously, most of the selections are accumulators (normally doubles or trebles), also referred to as parlays and are odds-on. 

Very nice smooth progress here and living up to the pre-trial results which is a rarity. Long may that continue.  

 

 

 

 

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Premium Boxing Tips – Results Update

16th March 2019

It’s been a positive start to our trial of Premium Boxing Tips, with a profit of 15 points made so far after one month.

You can view full results here.

Quite a lot of the tips are accumulators (or “parlays” as they refer to them) on selections with low odds that combined are still often odds-on. 

That approach is working well so far so let’s hope for more of the same going forward. 

 

 

 

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Premium Boxing Tips – New Review

18th February 2019

So far here at Honest Betting Reviews we have only reviewed one boxing tipster in the four years we have run the site. 

So it’s nice today to have another tipster to review and that is the aptly-named Premium Boxing Tips.

This is a service that’s been going for over three years and the results published on their website for that time look very good. 

In that time they’ve made over 440 points profit at a return on investment of over 15%.

What we really like about the results though is the steady profit graph. This is the kind of smooth progress we love to see from a tipster:

If they could repeat that over the course of our trial (and beyond) they would certainly be a tipster worth adding to the portfolio.

One of their expert tipsters says that:

“I’ve been an avid follower of boxing for many years. The advent of fights broadcast and downloadable over the Internet has allowed me to study the sport in greater depth. I started gambling on boxing seriously around 8 years ago.”

Well that dedication seems to be working well based on the results published on their website but let’s see how they perform under a live trial. 

So we will run our normal three month trial of this service and will report back here regularly on how things are going.

In the meantime you can check out Premium Boxing Tips for yourself here. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Cheltenham 2021 – Day Four Diary

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On to the final day of this year’s Cheltenham Festival then, which was Gold Cup Day of course but there were plenty of other high quality races to enjoy too. 

Just a reminder that I have been using a twofold strategy this week, which is:

1. To use all the bookies offers, brought together via Profit Maximiser; and

2. Use two of my favourite tipsters – Quentin Franks Racing and the Bet Alchemist – to find the best bets for Cheltenham. Both have excellent records at the festival so I am following their tips for the week.

By combining the above two together, it should give me a good chance of beating the bookies this week.

So how did this strategy get on today? Let’s have a look below.

 

Day Four Results

It’s been a decent week so far with a profit of £118 made to date, so let’s hope we can finish things off in style.

Here are my results from the final day of the Cheltenham festival. My stakes were £20 per point (or £10 each-way) once again.

 

1.20 – Triumph Hurdle

A tough start to the day with Quentin Franks’ ante-post pick Zanahiyr finishing in a disappointing fourth, despite having been backed in to an 11/8 favourite.

Profit/Loss from Race: £-40

 

1.55 – Handicap Hurdle

The Bet Alchemist had two picks in this race but both finished well down the field. A big shout-out to Loves Racing however who picked the winner Belfast Banter at a whopping 50/1, quite an achievement. 

Profit/Loss from Race: -£40

 

2.30 – Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle

No luck in this race either unfortunately as Ngolo from the Bet Alchemist was never really in the frame and Quentin’s ante-post pick was a non-runner.

Profit/Loss from Race: -£40

 

3.05 – Gold Cup

Finally a winner on the day as the Bet Alchemist’s pick Minella Indo stormed home to win the Gold Cup in style. Quentin’s pick Santini was pulled up unfortunately. 

Profit/Loss from Race: +£76

 

3.40 – Hunter’s Chase

Another placed finish from the Bet Alchemist with Latenightpass coming in fourth at 20/1, whilst their other pick It Came to Pass was seventh. Agonisingly, Quentin’s tip Billaway was just beaten by a short head into second in a titanic battle to the line with Purlock Bay.

Profit/Loss from Race: -£30

 

4.50 – Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle

No bets in the 4.15 so it was on to the last race and unfortunately the Bet Alchemist’s tip Mill Green finished seventh, just missing out on a place at 33/1. 

Profit/Loss from Race: -£20

 

 

TOTAL PROFIT/LOSS FROM THE DAY: -£94

A bit of a disappointing end to the week on the official bets, with a loss of £94 made on the day. The week still ended in a profit on the official bets though, with a profit of £24 made. 

And my unofficial bets had an amazing week, with a 50/1 winner and two 33/1 successes. So I certainly can’t complain on a personal level. 

The highlights of the festival for me were Rachael Blackmore’s amazing performances, plus of course Tiger Roll winning – what a horse! 

So that’s Cheltenham over for this year anyway, another profitable and enjoyable week. Hope you had a successful week too!

 

 

Cheltenham 2021 – Day Two Diary

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After a positive first day of Cheltenham I was hoping things would carry over to Day Two on Wednesday. 

Just a reminder I am tracking my results from this year’s festival using a twofold strategy, which is:

1. To use all the bookies offers, brought together via Profit Maximiser; and

2. Use two of my favourite tipsters – Quentin Franks Racing and the Bet Alchemist – to find the best bets for Cheltenham. Both have excellent records at the festival so I am following their tips for the week.

By combining the above two together, this should give me a good chance of beating the bookies this week.

So how did this strategy get on today? Let’s have a look below.

 

Day Two Results

After yesterday’s profit of £50 it was a somewhat of a mixed day on the official bets, although once again I landed a big win on my unofficial bets. 

So here are the results from Wednesday at Cheltenham. My stakes were £20 per point.

 

1.20 Ballymore Novices’ Hurdle

Just the one bet in this race and that was Bravemansgame advised by Quentin Franks. It was no match for the eventual winner Bob Olinger, but no harm done as by using free bets available with Skybet and Spreadex on the first race I was able to get my stakes back. 

Profit/Loss from Race: £0

 

1.55 Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase

On to the second race then and Quentin Franks had advised two separate ante-post bets on Monkfish, one at 3/1 and the other at 9/4.

It just shows the importance of getting on early and the value of being a long-term member, as Monkfish went off at just 1/4, an amazingly short price.

It won of course, so a nice touch landed by Mr Franks.  

Profit/Loss from Race: +£150

 

2.30 Coral Cup Handicap Hurdle

Bet Alchemist had two selections in this race, Monte Cristo and Grand Roi, both of which finished well down the field unfortunately.

I was delighted to see Heaven Help Us romp home though at 33/1 as I backed it personally (unofficial bet). 

Profit/Loss from Race: -£60

 

4.15 Grand Annual Challenge Cup 

With no bets advised in the previous two races, it was on to the Grand Annual. Bet Alchemist had two more selections in this race, but sadly once again both finished well down the field. They also had an e/w double which failed to land.

Profit/Loss from Race: -£80

 

 

TOTAL PROFIT/LOSS FROM THE DAY: +£10

There were no bets in the final race, so the day ended up with a small profit on the official bets. It’s been Quentin who’s been carrying the show so far though with two very nice winners on the opening couple of days, whilst the Bet Alchemist has yet to register a return. Hopefully they can rectify that tomorrow.

 

 

 

Cheltenham 2021 – Day One Diary

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Day one of this year’s Cheltenham festival is over and here is an update on how I got on during the opening day.  

Just to recap that my strategy this year is the same as the last few years and is twofold:

1. Take advantage of all the bookies’ offers and bonuses this week.

There are some fantastic offers this week with extra places, money back and free bets being thrown around by the bookies like confetti. I am using Profit Maximiser to see each day’s offers and make sure I use them to extract the most profit possible.

2. Use some top tipsters.

I am using two of my favourite tipsters – Quentin Franks Racing and the Bet Alchemist – to find the best bets for Cheltenham. Both have excellent records at the festival so I am following their tips for the week.

By combining the above two together, this should give me a great chance of beating the bookies at Cheltenham.

So how did this strategy get on today? Let’s have a look below.

 

Day One Results

So here are the results from Tuesday at Cheltenham. My stakes were £20 per point.

It was actually a fairly quiet day on the official bets from Quentin and the Bet Alchemist, although I had a cracking day on my own (unofficial) bets so was mightily pleased with how things went.

It was quite limited in terms of free bets for me because the best offers didn’t tend to coincide with the races I was betting on. Plus it doesn’t feel like the offers are quite as good this year – nothing from Bet365 for example apart from their usual fare, which might be down to the lack of crowds but who knows.

Anyway, the highlight of the day in racing terms had to be the win of Rachael Blackmore aboard Honeysuckle in the Champion Hurdle, becoming the first female jockey to win the race. 

It was a good day for punters too, with three of the hot favourites winning. 

Here are my results from day one of the festival:

 

1.20 Supreme Novices Hurdle

Quentin Franks got the day off to a tremendous start, with his ante-post pick Appreciate It absolutely decimating the field at 11/4. An easier win at Cheltenham you will rarely see and punters were cheering as it got backed into a very short 8/11 by the off. There were no bets in this race from the Bet Alchemist.

Profit/Loss from Race: +£110

 

2.30 Ultima Handicap Chase

With no bets from either tipster in the 1.55, there was just one bet in this race and that was Pym from the Bet Alchemist which went down to defeat unfortunately, finishing 11th.

However, my unofficial bet on Vintage Clouds came in at a BSP of 50, so I was dancing around the living room at that one, the biggest-priced winner I’ve ever had at Cheltenham. Happy days. 

Profit/Loss from Race: -£20

 

3.05 Champion Hurdle

Just the one bet in this race and it was on Abacadabras from Quentin Franks, which unfortunately was a faller so a loss in this one. 

However, I landed a successfully treble with Honeysuckle coming on the back of earlier wins by Appreciate It and Shiskin, so again was very happy with the result.

Profit/Loss from Race: -£20

 

4.15 Boodles Juvenile Handicap Hurdle

Just the one bet in this race and that came from the Bet Alchemist, who picked Riviere D’etel, which sadly finished just outside the places in seventh. The race was won by an 80/1 shot so well done if you managed to pick that one. 

Profit/Loss from Race: -£20

 

 

There were no further official bets on the day so that was it for the opening day at Cheltenham in terms of official bets – although I did have an interest in Galvin in the last which was tipped by Racing Intelligence and landed a nice touch at 4/1.

 

TOTAL PROFIT/LOSS FROM THE DAY ON OFFICIAL BETS: +£50

So a good first day overall and well done to Quentin on a good winner in the first. I was delighted with the day personally with the win of Vintage Clouds at 50/1 and landing a nice treble to cap it off. 

That sets up the week nicely and let’s hope for a few more winners tomorrow.

 

 

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Should Bettors Look to the Norwegian Football League for a Change?

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When it comes to football betting, it will surprise nobody that the English Premier League, the Spanish La Liga, and the German Bundesliga are among the top divisions in the world. These leagues feature some of the most famous players and teams in the world, and most bettors with a good knowledge of football find it easy to stake on these events.

 

Sometimes it can get frustrating, though. Within these divisions, there are some major mismatches of teams where there is just no point in betting on the underdog. Think Manchester City vs Fulham or Real Madrid vs Cadiz, games in which the minnows have little to no chance of doing any damage against the giants. Anyone who feels like they need a change from betting on the big guns could take a look at the Norwegian football league, the Eliteserien, as an alternative. In addition to this, staking on the league can give bettors a reason to watch games they may not have been bothered about watching in the past.

Plenty of Bonuses at Norwegian Casinos

For bettors who want to start staking on Nordic sports, there are numerous bonuses available if you know where to look. This site shows some of the best Norwegian odds bonuses, with Mobilebet, Unibet, and Betsson being among the most popular online bookmakers. With the range of bonuses and promotions available, it makes sense for bettors to check out the Norwegian leagues where they can take advantage of these offers.

Which Are the Best Teams in the League?

Rosenborg are by far the most successful team in the Eliteserien, claiming 26 top-flight titles throughout their rich history. Four of these have come in the last five years, showing the side’s dominance in recent times. However, the current champions are Molde, another powerhouse in the league since 2010. The Romsdal County-based club have won four titles in the last ten years, and the tussle between these two sides highlights the battle for supremacy in Norwegian football. It can be exciting to predict which team will end up on top each year, with other sides like Brann and Stromsgodset often challenging the top clubs as well.

In addition to hosting some excellent teams, a few world-class players have emerged from the Eliteserien. Arguably the hottest striker in the world right now, Erling Haaland, started to make a name for himself in at Molde in the 2017-18 campaign. Going further back in history, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was a legend of the Norwegian football league at Clausenengen and Molde before he joined Manchester United in 1996. Watching the Eliteserien can be a good way to spot players like these before they become household names.

Bettors looking for an exciting alternative to the top European leagues, or those eager to add a couple of extra games to an accumulator should check out some Norwegian football.

 

 

 

Angel Business Club

Angel Business Club – Results Update

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Risk warning While the content on the Angel Business Club website is for general information purposes only and does not form financial or professional advice, any investment opportunity on the Angel Business Club website carries a high degree of risk. Your capital is at risk which can include loss of investment and dilution, illiquidity, lack of dividends and it should be done only as part of a diversified portfolio. Any financial promotion contained on the Angel Business Club has been approved by Angel Corporate Finance Ltd; a firm authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority in the UK.

 

 

N.B. – Please note this review was continued at our sister site, tradestocksfx, here.

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There has been some massive news for one of the companies in the Angel Business Club’s portfolio recently. It involves a small British fintech company that has struck a huge deal with one of the world’s biggest financial institutions. 

For reasons of confidentiality we cannot reveal who this company is or details of the deal, but we understand an official announcement will be made soon. 

In the meantime though the Angel Business Club released details to members via a special webinar and the implications were nothing short of mind-blowing. 

If you have followed our review here over the last couple of years you will know that we have cautioned patience and that it could take time, but there was always the chance that one of the portfolio companies would hit it big. 

Well with this deal there’s a real chance this particular company could hit it very big. Out-of-the-park big, as it were. 

They still have to deliver on what the larger financial company is asking for, but if they do then the potential for growth is tremendous. 

And the really good news is that if you sign up to paid membership of the Angel Business Club before the end of the month (so by the end of tomorrow UK time) you will get FREE BONUS SHARES in this amazing company.

Not only that but you will get allocated free shares in a number of other exciting early-stage businesses. 

So don’t miss out on this great opportunity – you can sign up to the Angel Business Club here today.  

 

 

 

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Angel Business Club – Results Update

22nd July 2020

The Angel Business Club is a facility whereby you pay a monthly membership fee and then receive free shares in a range of early-stage companies. It’s a bit like Dragons Den, apart from you don’t get to pick the companies, the Club does. 

We had remarked previously that is was difficult to give a results update on our investment in the Club as there weren’t any results in the form of companies being sold or floated on the stock market (IPO). 

Well the good news is we finally have some results to report! And they are positive.

Yes, the Club made an investment in a company that was about to float on the stock exchange and members were allocated shares at the end of May at the price of £0.025 per share.

Then the company floated on the stock exchange at the start of June and shares have generally traded in the range of £0.045 – £0.05 per share since then.

Taking into account the spread (i.e. the sell price being lower than the quoted mid-price), this meant that members could have sold shares for around 4-4.5p per share, potentially achieving a 100% uplift on the price of the allotted shares. 

If you had the standard membership for example at £89, you would have received 350 shares at £0.025 per share, for a value of £8.75. At this level you would have struggled to make a profit on selling the shares due to dealing costs, so really for it to have been worthwhile you would have needed a higher level of membership. 

If for example you had the Pro Membership at £428, you would have received 2500 shares, equal to £62.50 at the valuation of  £0.025 per share. That would have allowed you to make a good profit on the shares if selling at £0.04 – £0.045 per share, even factoring in dealing costs.

And of course whichever level of membership you had, you would also have received allocations in a number of other companies for the month. 

Anyway, this kind of short-term investment before an IPO is a new approach from the Club and we think it is a good one. They will still be making the more long-term investments (5-15 years) but having these shorter-term transactions in addition gives members something tangible to enjoy in the meantime whilst waiting for the longer plays to materialise. It makes good use of the Club’s privileged position as an Angel investor able to invest in early-stage companies closed off to most retail investments. 

We expect to see more of these in future and hopefully there will be opportunities for members to buy additional shares on top of the allotted monthly memberships allocations.  

In terms of the Club’s other invested companies there appears to be lots of good news coming out despite the covid difficulties experienced by many companies so that is encouraging. 

There have been no significant developments in Britannia’s Gold Ltd (BGL) however which is a shame but they are rather beholden to other authorities and restricted by the covid limitations. Hopefully they will get back out to sea in the next few months.  

 

 

 

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Angel Business Club – Results Update

20th April 2020

It’s been a few months since we updated our review of the Angel Business Club (ABC) so we thought a good time for an update given the hiatus in all things sporting-related at the moment. 

Just a reminder, the Angel Business Club is a facility whereby you pay a monthly membership fee and then receive free shares in a range of early-stage companies. It’s a bit like Dragons Den, apart from you don’t get to pick the companies, the Club does. 

The companies are varied and interesting, with everything from a healthy tonic company to a fire safety company to posh dog food! 

With the coronavirus crisis it’s obviously a very worrying time for all businesses, particularly start-ups and early stage businesses. Time will tell how it turns out for the companies in the ABC portfolio but let’s hope they make it through to the other side. 

There isn’t a great deal of news on the companies, other than that one went bust and is being restructured to start over when the covid-19 crisis is past. Some other companies seem to be making good progress, although as we say with the current economic crisis it is only sensible to be cautious in that regard.

Obviously it is also not the time to be doing stock market flotations or trade sales so we don’t have any clear results to report in terms of profit/losses banked. 

The good news however is that the Angel Business Club are offering free access to their weekly webinars, which are normally for paid members only. So you can check those out and get more info on the companies and what else is going on at the Club. 

You can sign up as a free member here. 

 

 

 

 

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Angel Business Club – Results Update

13th November 2019

It’s been a few months since we updated our review of the Angel Business Club (ABC) and in fact it’s been two full years now since we joined the club. 

Just a reminder, the Angel Business Club is a facility whereby you pay a monthly membership fee and then receive free shares in a range of early-stage companies. It’s a bit like Dragons Den, apart from you don’t get to pick the companies, the Club does. 

The companies are varied and interesting, with everything from a healthy tonic company to a fire safety company to posh dog food! 

Anyway, as we say we’ve been members for two years so you would think after that long we would have some concrete results to report. 

Well unfortunately – and those who have been following us in the long run will have heard this before – we still can’t report any clear results! 

That is because there haven’t been any exit opportunities like IPOs or trade sales of the companies in our portfolio, which is how you realise the investment you have made in the Club and potentially bank a profit (or a loss if a company happened not to have done well). Whilst there have been a couple of IPOs planned, they both fell through for one reason or another and no others are planned as far as we are aware. 

Now as mentioned below in our previous updates, you do have the option of selling your shares to other members on the ABC’s internal trading platform, although not all companies are tradeable on there (for example one of the companies has recently gone into voluntary liquidation so has been removed).

If you do sell shares on the platform however, you would generally be taking a loss on your shares so it is not recommended. Ultimately if you want to realise the full opportunity of the companies you will have to wait for the exit event in most cases. 

So needless to say the ABC is only a vehicle for people with a great deal of patience! You need to have a long-term mindset that it could take 5-10 years in many cases to see the companies go from early stage to actually float on the stock market or be bought out. 

That is all we can say at this stage really, we wish we had something more concrete to report in terms of results but that is the “nature of the beast” unfortunately. 

A quick word as well on Britannia’s Gold Ltd (BGL), one of the companies in our portfolio and one people could also invest in separately. There has been some positive news lately, in that they have been contracted by a third party to carry out a salvage operation on a vessel in the Pacific with a potentially large quantity of gold on board, which BGL would receive 12.5% of in addition to receiving a fee for doing the job. 

So if that came in it would provide a very nice dividend to shareholders and help to fund the mission on the Empress of Britain which is due to recommence next Spring. 

Here’s hoping anyway!

 

 

 

 

 

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Angel Business Club – Results Update

3rd July 2019

It’s Dan here and I thought it would be a good time to do an update on the Angel Business Club after I attended their Global Convention last week in London.

I’ll start with the Convention and then move on to a wider update on how things are going.

 

Global Convention

The Convention was held at the Holiday Inn Kensington on 22nd June and it was a fantastic day. We got to hear a dozen presentations about all the promising companies that are part of the ABC platform and how they are progressing, which was very interesting. These included:

  • – A drinks company that is making healthy, natural drinks and is hoping to get listed in all the major UK supermarkets.
  • – A premium, high end dog-food company that looks set to break into America.
  • – A payment app that has signed a big deal with one of the world’s biggest credit card companies and has a number of other deals lined up.
  • – A breakthrough fire safety company that could revolutionise how fires are dealt with in the home and workplace

And there were so many more inspiring stories from companies that could not only be big successes but have a positive impact on the world.

It was also great to meet other members at the Convention and share their experiences of the Club. Not to mention we got lots of goodies, including (non-alcoholic) wine and soft drinks at our table and excellent food at the conference venue. Joao (the CEO of the ABC) and his team did a great job so hats off to them. It was such a success they have even booked in the event for next year already! 

 

Portfolio Update

There hasn’t been much change in our portfolio since our last update. We currently have 13 companies in our portfolio (plus an extra investment in Britannia’s Gold – but more on that below). The total we have paid via membership fees is €2,592 and that is also pretty much the estimated value of our portfolio according to the strike price values. 

In terms of the strike price values, we believe it would be beneficial for the Club to report how they arrive at their strike price valuations (with price/sales ratios etc) to increase transparency and accountability and have suggested this to them. 

As we remarked last time though, in the grand scheme of things the strike price values of the companies are something of a moot point until a company can either float on the stock market or is bought out (what is called a “trade sale”). 

You can sell shares via the ABC’s internal trading platform in the meantime if the companies are listed on the platform. Of the 13 companies in our portfolio, 11 are listed on the trading platform.

We stated in our last update that it is not always possible to sell shares on the platform. This is not quite correct – as long as the company is listed on the platform you can sell shares, although it will usually be at a significant discount to the strike price so is not advisable unless you really have to sell in order to release funds etc. It is better to wait for the exit events – an IPO or trade sale.

 

The IPOs That Weren’t

Talking of IPOs, one of the disappointing aspects of our time as a member has been that two IPOs were promised but then didn’t materialise, for one reason or another. 

One of the companies in question had raised funds from members on the basis that it was about to IPO but then chose not to list on the stock market, for its own reasons. Whilst it is always of course up to the company to decide how to proceed in these matters and to act in the best interests of the company and its shareholders, there were complaints about this at the Global Convention and we can understand why.

In our view if a company raises money on the basis that it plans to shortly IPO and then pulls it (with no date given for when it may IPO in future), it is understandable if people are frustrated and we hope this is just a one-off and isn’t repeated by the ABC.

In terms of the other IPO, it is hoped this will proceed later this year.

 

Britannia’s Gold

We reported last time that Britannia’s Gold (BGL) was embarking on its third attempt to salvage gold from a Wold War Two shipwreck. Well sadly it wasn’t successful in that attempt.

We received an update from Philip Reid, Chairman of BGL, at the Global Convention and he gave a rather reflective summary of the situation, remarking that the whole project had turned out to be far more challenging than they had ever envisaged and it would require significant additional funds and time to complete the current salvage. It has been a salutary lesson for all involved in just how difficult such salvage operations are – as Mr Reid commented “that’s why no-one else has done this.” Well, er, yes indeed!

Whilst this was disappointing news for investors, there is something to be said for Mr Reid’s honesty and now at least they have more realistic expectations of the time and effort involved in not just completing this salvage operation but any potential ones in future.  

All is not lost as they have the funds to head out to the vessel again and try to complete the salvage, whilst now having to split any proceeds 50% with another company. However, whilst there is still hope this could all turn out successfully, when taking into account the tone of Mr Reid’s update and a cold hard reflection on how difficult it has all been you can’t help feel like the dream may be slipping away. We will see anyway…

 

Summary

So how would we summarise our time as an ABC member after more than 18 months? Well our experience probably mirrors private equity investing generally. It is high risk and there will be many disappointments and setbacks along the way. Certainly we have experienced those so far with the aborted IPOs and Britannia’s Gold. 

At the same time though I came away from the Convention feeling very positive about the opportunities of many companies in the portfolio. There were some great stories and promising developments reported, so hopefully at least one of the companies will go on to be a big success.

Only time will tell on that, so in the meantime we will just have to wait and see…and keep those fingers crossed!

You can check out the Angel Business Club for yourself here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Angel Business Club – Results Update

3rd April 2019

It’s been over a year since we started our review of the Angel Business Club, so it is more than high time for an update.

The strange thing however – and this is mainly why we have delayed doing an update for so long – is that we don’t really have any results to update!

Yes it may sound crazy, but even after having been a member of the Club for around 18 months, we haven’t been able to cash in any of our investments. 

Before we explain fully, here is a quick reminder of what the Angel Business Club (or ABC for short) is all about: when you join up as an active member, you pay a monthly fee and you may receive free monthly share entitlements at the Club’s discretion and in proportion to your membership level in companies at all stages of development, from start-ups to pre-IPO and even listed companies.

It is kind of like Dragons’ Den apart from you don’t get to choose which companies you get shares in, the Club does that for you on a monthly basis.

The problem is that you need to wait for an “exit event” like an IPO (a flotation on the stock market) or a trade sale (a company being bought out by a much larger company) for your investment to be realised and some profit (or loss) to be made. 

There is the option of trading internally on the ABC’s website, but we have tried this a few times and even when putting in the lowest price allowed, we still haven’t found any buyers for our shares. There just isn’t the liquidity available compared to trading on a platform like Hargreaves Lansdown for example. That isn’t surprising as the ABC has around 1100 paying members compared to hundreds of thousands or even millions of traders on a platform like Hargreaves (plus HL have market makers, but that’s a different story altogether).

Anyway, the overall picture is that so far we have paid €2,325 in membership fees and our shares are estimated to be worth around €2,860. 

However, this estimated value is the “strike price” attributed to the shares by ABC, which has to be taken with a pinch of salt as it just their internal valuation and as they used to say on those property programmes, an item “is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it.”

So you will only know what those shares are really worth once there is an exit event and you can actually sell them. 

In summary then all we can say so far is that the Club is definitely for the long-term investor rather than the short-term one. If you are looking to make a “quick buck” then this isn’t for you. In many cases you will have to wait 3-5 years for an investment to come to fruition, so patience is of the essence. 

There are a couple of companies due to have IPOs later this year and Britannia’s Gold – one of the the ABC’s flagship projects – is currently embarking on their third crack at retrieving some gold from WW1 and WW2 shipwrecks, so it may be that we have some concrete results to report in the coming months. 

For the moment though, it’s very much a case of “wait and see…” 

 

 

 

 

 

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Angel Business Club – New Review

10th January 2018

If you are a long-term follower of ours you will know that we like to look into a wide-variety of money-making opportunities and not just betting systems.

We like to test out trading systems, forex strategies, cryptocurrencies and really any investment opportunity that we think has the potential to be profitable.

The latest opportunity represents something new again and is called the Angel Business Club. 

I attended a seminar they held just before Christmas and was impressed enough by it that I decided to join up as a paying member.

What is the Angel Business Club All About?

In essence the Club provides the chance to be invested in a range of start-up companies.

Normally this is something that is closed off to the vast majority of people and only venture capitalists like the guys you see on “Dragons Den” would have the chance to become involved in start-up companies.

For a lot of investors this is very frustrating because investing in new start-ups can be one of the most profitable forms of investment possible.

Think of the early investors in Facebook, Uber, Airbnb and the like and the vast fortunes they have amassed from being able to invest at the earliest stages of those companies, well before they floated on the stock market.

Venture capitalists who were able to do this have apparently made hundred-fold, or even thousand-fold, their original investment. 

There is even a story of a cleaner at the Google offices in the very early days of the company who was given a few hundred shares to thank them for their hard work, and now those shares are worth millions!

Whether it is true or not, the story gives you an idea of the incredible value that can be obtained from being an early investor in a company. 

This is where the Angel Business Club comes in. When you join up as an active member, you pay a monthly fee and you may receive free monthly share entitlements at the Club’s discretion and in proportion to your membership level in companies at all stages of development, from start-ups to pre-IPO and even listed companies.

It is all completely legal and legit and has been running for a couple of years now and has:

  • – Become Europe’s largest community of business angels with over 10,000 members
  • – Developed 10 Companies and driven 2 IPOs with more to come in 2018
  • – Built a complex and scalable financial e-platform

The Angel Business Club has an experienced professional team with decades of business and financial experience behind them who vet the potential companies to invest in and then help nurture them. 

The beauty of it as an investor is that you don’t have to do anything, just let the team do all the work and sit back and receive the shares. 

Track Record

Of course the big question you are probably eager to know the answer to is what their track record is like in terms of returns.

Well apparently gains on the portfolio have ranged from 40-70% per year for members to date, which comfortably beats the stock market average and certainly any savings account. 

A notable success includes Wide Cells Group, a stem cell company which the Angel Business Club (ABC) took from an early stage company to float on the stockmarket and the IPO price represented a doubling in value to the price ABC members received shares at (8p to 16p).

Gains will of course vary and all investments in early-stage companies are high-risk, but the track record so far looks very good

There are currently over 20 companies currently on the ABC books. You can read more about them on the ABC website. 

I have recently joined up and will do a full review of the Club here, including the return on investment of my subscription over the course of the year.

This could be a great chance to invest in the next big companies of tomorrow, whilst also becoming involved in an investment community with regular meet-ups, online forums and webinars. 

You can check out the Angel Business Club for yourself here. 

 

 

 

 

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Motley Fool Stock Advisor – Results Update

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The Motley Fool Stock Advisor is a share tipping service provided by two brothers, David and Tom Gardner. It is one of the best known stock picking services in the world and has been running for nearly 20 years. We have been following the service for over three years now here at HBR. 

Even with the market crash experienced over the last couple of months due to coronavirus, they have still managed to add more growth since our last update, with a further 89% growth in the recommended stocks. 

That means the stocks have grown a combined 2,816% for our trial overall. 

You can view full results here.

It’s testament to their stock picking skills that their picks have still managed to hold up in the current market conditions, with their selections over the last year alone up a combined 82%. 

There may be more turbulent times to come for the stock market but the Motley Fool’s ethos of buying and holding for the long term has certainly produced stellar results over the past twenty years despite all the market’s ups and downs. 

It’s great credit to them and why they remain one of the most popular share tipping services in the world. 

 

 

 

 

 

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Motley Fool Stock Advisor – Update

14th November 2019

It’s now been a full three years since we joined the Motley Fool’s Stock Advisor service and a year since we last did an update so we are well overdue a report on progress.

Once again we can say the performance has been amazing, with a further 1159% growth made since our last update and 2727% growth of the recommended stocks for our trial overall. 

You can view full results here.

Those results are quite phenomenal and as we have said before, the best of any stock-picking service we have seen. 

It’s interesting that the results from the two brothers David and Tom have been almost identical for the period of our review, with David having made 1377% profit and Tom having made 1338% profit. Although over the whole history of the service David’s results have been better (an average gain of 518% for David on each share recommended versus 153% for Tom), it appears Tom may be catching up. 

The only slight negative is that this year hasn’t been quite as good for them, with the stocks recommended in 2019 actually down a cumulative 53%. However, many of those recommendations are only a few months old and the average holding time is recommended to be 3-5 years, so it may just be the case that these recent ones need time to play out. 

In any event the overall performance of the service as we say has been superb so we’ll continue to monitor it and let’s see what the next three years bring! 

 

 

 

 

 

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Motley Fool Stock Advisor – Update

9th October 2018

It has now been almost two years since we started following the Motley Fool’s Stock Advisor service and what a two years it has been!

Their total stock picks combined are now up an amazing 1569% since we started following them in November 2016. 

You can view full results here.

(Please note on the results spreadsheet we haven’t included the names of the stocks recommended to avoid giving away their picks for free).

To put the results another way, if you had bought $1000 worth of each stock recommendation they have made since November 2016, you would currently be over $156,000 up! 

Now to do that you would have had to invest $47,000 in buying the 47 stocks they have recommended over the last couple of years, which of course not everyone has just lying around. 

But even if you had bought just $100 of every stock they had recommended, you would still be over $15,600 up, which is pretty awesome. 

Some shares do cost more than $100 each of course, but there are other options for that such as using a spread betting account.

Anyway, the bottom line is the results have been quite amazing and this is the best stock picking service we have ever come across. 

These are not penny stocks they are selecting either that can surge or crash on a whim, they are virtually all multi-billion dollar companies that are stable and you can actually achieve the prices they recommend to buy the stock at. 

There is also lots to learn across the Motley Fool platform and a great deal of wisdom about how to approach long term investing. 

We will continue to follow this just because it is doing so well we want to see where it ends up and if they can continue to achieve such amazing results. They have been doing so for over 20 years so let’s hope they can. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Motley Fool Stock Advisor – Update

14th February 2018

It’s been a while since we updated our review of the Motley Fool Stock Advisor so we thought it was high time we brought you some news.

And we are pleased to say we have good news to report – very good news in fact.

Since we started following the service back in November 2016, they have amassed an incredible 611% profit from their stock picks. 

You can view full results here.

Those gains are outstanding and as we have said before, this is the best stock-picking service we have ever come across.

In terms of the records of the two brothers who provide the picks – David and Tom Gardner – their records since November 2016 are as follows: David is 347% up and Tom is 264% up.

That kind of fits with the long-term pattern, with David having achieved an average gain on his picks since the service started of 487% versus Tom’s 133%. In fact you could say Tom has been outperforming his overall record lately.

Either way though, they have both done fantastically well.

There is also so much useful information on the website to learn from. We enjoy in particular David Gardner’s podcasts for his Rule Breakers service, which is very educational as you can understand more about the thinking that goes behind his picks and why he has been so successful.  

Anyway, we will report back again in a couple of months’ time to see if their impressive results continue.

 

 

 

 

 

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Motley Fool Stock Advisor – Update

27th July 2017

It’s been a while since we updated our review of the Motley Fool Stock Advisor so we thought it was high time we brought you some news.

And we are pleased to report that the news is good – very good in fact.

Since we joined the main Motley Fool Stock Advisor last November, they are an astounding 207% up on their stock picks.

You can view full results here.

Now we can’t include the names of the stocks here because as the Motley Fool is a long-term service where you generally hold stocks for 3-5 years or even longer, that would be giving away their picks for free.

But rest assured these results are fully accurate and verified.

And it is worth pointing out that unlike some other share tipping services, you can generally get the price they recommend the stock at with no problems at all.

This is primarily because they are picking big, multi-billion dollar companies whose prices are not going to be affected by the followers of the Motley Fool all buying shares at the same time. Plus they give out the stock tips with the live current price, rather than “this is the price I bought it at a week ago” which has now gone up 20% by the time you hear about it.

As we mentioned last time, we also signed up to the Rule Breakers service that is run by David Gardner. That is also up an astonishing 218% this year, simply fantastic results.

The UK version, Share Advisor, is around break even for the year. We have stopped following the Income Investor because it is too long-term a service to be worth reviewing here – it is the kind of thing you do to set up an income for yourself in retirement.

All in all though we think the main Stock Advisor and Rule Breaker services are fantastic and without doubt the best stockmarket services we have come across.

 

 

 

 

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Motley Fool Stock Advisor – Update

20th March 2017

The Motley Fool Stock Advisor is a legendary stock-picking service run by two brothers, David and Tom Gardner. 

In this fast-paced, action-packed world we live in, Tom and David take a rather contrary approach to investing and look to hold stocks for a long time rather than profit from day-trading or quick swings in prices.

When they say a long time, they mean a period of around 5-10 years, which is like an eternity in the modern world of super-fast trading.

However, their approach has been phenomenally successful, with winners such as Amazon (up 500-fold since they originally recommended it), Netflix (up over 7,000%), Priceline (up over 7,000%) and many more fantastic winners.

Now given their investing timeframes, we can’t really do our normal results spreadsheet as that would give things away and you could just use that to buy their recommended stocks rather than signing up to the service.

What we can say though is that their stock picks are up a combined 70% since we joined in November, a pretty awesome total.

In that time there have been nine picks, with one of those picks up 40%.

We have to say we are absolutely loving this service and think it is without doubt the best stock-picking service we have ever come across.

The depth of knowledge, the quality of the analysis, the presentation of the website, but most of all – the results – are superb.

As we said below in our introduction back in November, imagine if you had bought just $1,000 of Amazon shares back when David originally recommended it. You would now have shares worth over half a million dollars!

And you would have had some other fantastic gains as well.

We are enjoying this so much we have signed up to three of their other services:

  • Rule Breakers – a service run by David Gardner that focuses on breakthrough tech companies he believes are poised for massive growth. Big winners to date include Netease (over 2,000% gain), Intuitive Surgical (over 1,400%) and Baidu (over 1,900%).
  • Income Investor – a service focused on creating an income through investing in shares that pay dividends.
  • Motley Fool UK – the British version of the site, which recommends UK companies to buy and has also had some decent results.

We will start including these services in our updates as well to give you a sense of how they are doing across some of their different services.

It is worth pointing out that you do need a decent bit of money to invest to make it worth signing up to these services – we would say at least ten thousand pounds, but maybe more like twenty-five thousand.

And of course you would need to have money to invest on an ongoing basis if you wanted to buy each of their monthly picks as well.  

If you do have some money to invest and are looking for a stock-picking service to follow, then certainly on the basis of what we have seen so far, the Motley Fool is looking very good.

 

 

 

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Motley Fool Stock Advisor – Update

20th December 2016

It’s a bit early for a results update on the Motley Fool Stock Advisor service, as the picks take a long time to realise their full value, with the average holding time for a share being 3-5 years.

So we thought we would just do a quick update on how we have found the service so far.

Basically you normally receive one pick from each of the Gardner brothers, Tom and David, every month together with their reasoning for their pick.

I really like the detailed explanations for their stock picks. They are a mixture of sound reasoning as to why the particular company is expected to grow (and thus the share price should grow) and detailed (but not boring and overly-long) analysis of the numbers. 

You can see why they have made such incredible picks, like 500-bagger Amazon, 40-bagger Netflix and so on over the years.

On the website you can also look back at all their previous picks and the thinking behind them, which is interesting. Quite a lot of their predictions about how companies would grow have proved startlingly accurate!

There are David and Tom’s top 5 “Best Buys” now, plus their 15 “Starter Stocks” – the essential companies that embody David and Tom’s investing philosophies and the ones they think should form the basis of your portfolio. These are mainly big-name companies that we’ve all heard of and have been solid growth engines, with more expected.

In addition you will find other features on the site such as a community forum to discuss things with other members, plus a “scorecard” to track stocks you are interested in.

After signing up to the Stock Advisor service, you are hit with quite a lot of marketing to sign up to other Motley Fool services. Some of these actually look quite interesting, particularly the Rule Breakers and Options Trading services.

However, these are all considerably more expensive than the Stock Advisor service, which is a squeak at a mere $99 per year.

So overall our impressions of the service are very good so far. Obviously as we say only time will tell how they get on in the long term with their stock picks, but we will update things periodically on the progress being made. 

 

 

 

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Motley Fool Stock Advisor – New Review

22nd November 2016

Among the many dozens of e-mails, adverts and requests we receive each week to look at betting and investment opportunities, occasionally one comes along that really sparks our interest.

This happened to us today when we came across an article talking about a stock recommended by a guy called David Gardner, who is the co-founder with his brother Tom of the popular Motley Fool share website.

The article went on to mention that David Gardner had a pretty decent record in his stock tips, having recommended Amazon back in 1997 (and again in 2002).

Now everyone knows that Amazon has grown massively as a company since those recommendations. But how much exactly?

Well, back in 1997, Amazon was worth around $1.50 per share. In 2002, it was around $15 per share. 

Guess what it is today? 

A whopping $785 per share.

Yep, that’s not a typo – it really is $785 per share.

That is pretty astonishing growth. And yet, back in 2002, most people would certainly have heard of Amazon, used its services and would have expected it to grow as a company.

But how many people actually bought some shares in it?

Well David Gardner did and now he’s sitting on a 500-bagger (i.e. a share that has grown 500-fold, or 50,000% since he bought it).

Intrigued by this, I started looking at some of the other recommendations made by David and his brother Tom in their Stock Advisor newsletter.

How about Netflix – advised in 2007 at $2.69 per share, now worth $118.

Or Nvidia, advised in 2005 at $7 a share and now worth $93. 

There is Priceline group, advised in 2004 at $23 and now worth $1,526.

Or Walt Disney, advised at $3 per share in 2002 and now worth $98. 

Some pretty astounding success stories there, any one of which could have made you pretty wealthy. Think if you had invested just $1,000 in Amazon when he recommended it in 2002, you would have made a cool half a million dollars. 

Looking at their overall record, obviously not every stock they pick is a winner and there have been some losers as well. 

But the beauty of this kind of investing is that you can afford a few losers if you have some shares that 10, 20, 50 or even 500-bag.

Indeed, David has averaged an incredible 300% profit for each of his stock picks whilst Tom has managed a very respectable 81%. 

And this isn’t one of those “throw enough stuff at the fan and some will stick” situations either. They tend to give out just one or two stock picks per month, so it is a very selective service and should be manageable in terms of running a portfolio based on their picks.

The other thing we like about this service is that these are all big companies they are investing in, not some fly-by-night penny share nonsense that you see ramped by the pump and dump merchants.

That means they shouldn’t suffer from some of the problems we have seen with other share services that recommended much smaller stocks, where they recommend a tip and then it has shot up in price by the time you get to buy it. 

We are quite excited about this service, as you can imagine. It takes the approach that we think is the correct one for investing in shares – buy and hold for at least 3-5 years.

The only negative we can see from looking at the results is that the recent results over the last couple of years aren’t quite as impressive as previous years, but then a lot of their really big wins took a few years to build, so this is perhaps understandable.

Anyway, we have signed up to their $99 per year subscription today and will be commencing a review.

Obviously given the nature of their approach, we will have to run the trial for longer than the normal three months and will aim to run it for a year.

In just a year we won’t see the kind of massive winners they have had, which as we say take many years of growth, but it should give us ample time to judge how the service works in practice and to see if it is worth carrying on with.

Just a final note to point out this is the US version of Motley Fool’s Stock Picks, as there are ones in other countries as well but it is the US one that we will be reviewing here. 

Onwards and upwards then – let’s hope they find the next Amazon!

 

 

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Auto Pro(fessional) Trader: APT – Update

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Well it’s not the update we were hoping to make this month but here is the e-mail we received from David Ayerst, who manages the APT platform, on 15th March:-

 

“Before I throw in my two pennies worth a note from Steve Smith our Pro Trader Team Manager

I am sure we agree that this has not worked. I have had no choice but to make a total reorganization of the entire trading team, this means that some traders will not be on APT at least for the time being.

Please see my notes below:

David Murphy – David has had a bad time of it over the last few months, I can’t let him carry on. David will be returning to proofing for a number of months to see if he can again make the consistent profits I know he is capable off.

Garry Scullion – Garry is taking some time off due to personal circumstances.

Garry Bassett – I am personally sure that Garry is a very good trader; I have seen his results from his Betfair account. However what is apparent is that his staking style is not liked by members. Over the last 2 weeks Garry and I have worked on a new staking plan that should lead to more consistency. Garry is returning to proofing for a month or two to ensure we can iron out any problems. As long as this works he will be returning to APT in paper trading mode so you can view the new staking and see if you wish to follow him.

Sean Haren – Sean has been working on a new staking plan with stop losses in place to cut out the large losing days he was having. He has been back on the proofing tool now for a number of weeks and it appears to be working. Sean will be on APT in paper trading mode for you all to view his results but will not be available to follow for the time being.

Keith White – Keith is a new name who has been doing very well in proofing. However he is having problems getting all the bets on the proofing tool and his own Betfair account so it is costing him money. Our proofing tool does not have the feature to link an account so we are going to allow him to finish his proofing on APT. This will give you all a chance to evaluate his style but as with Sean will not be available to follow for the time being.

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So by their own admission unfortunately things have not worked out with APT. They are reorganising the trading team and putting them in proofing mode for a while. 

This seems like the right decision to us as there is no point carrying on with losses piling up. In terms of our review, there isn’t much we can do other than put our review into abeyance for the time being. With the coronavirus meaning there is no sport for the time being either, it could be quite a while before we are in a position to recommence our trial. 

When they do recommence we hope they can find some consistently profitable traders as the underlying software is impressive. 

 

 

 

 

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Auto Pro Trader – Results Update

20th February 2020

Auto Pro Trader is a piece of software that allows you to automatically copy the trades of professional traders on Betfair. 

It has been a rough time for the traders lately, with a combined £317 lost since our last update a month ago across the four traders we are following. 

That means we are now £220 down for our trial overall. 

You can view full results here. (The previous results for the paper trading mode are available in the second tab of the spreadsheet). 

As mentioned last time, those results also include a single trade by one of the traders, Gary Scullion, which won £670 but we understand wasn’t matched for the majority of APT users. Therefore with that trade taken out the results would be £890 down at the moment.

Obviously this has been a very disappointing start to a promising piece of software. Ultimately even though the software works well, unless there are profitable traders you can follow then it doesn’t really matter how good the software is. The challenge for them now is for either the current traders to turn things around quickly or to find traders who are profitable. 

 

 

 

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Auto Pro Trader – Results Update

21st January 2020

Auto Pro Trader is a piece of software that allows you to automatically copy the trades of professional traders on Betfair. 

We have been following three traders for a full month now and are £96.11 up across the three traders so far.

You can view full results here.

The previous results for the paper trading mode are available in the second tab of the spreadsheet. 

The software works very well and we have had no issues having the trades automatically copied onto our Betfair account.

The APT team are however on the lookout for more pro traders to add to the platform so if you fit the bill – or just want to sign up as a user to copy the existing pro traders – please drop us a line at info@honestbettingreviews.com 

Update 25.01.20 – It has come to our attention that a large part of the profit made so far came from one bet, i.e. for Gary Scullion on 16th January, which was not matched for some members. This bet was a lay which won £669.66 (at high risk stake levels), which might not have been matched for some people due to amounts they had in their accounts and also liquidity. So without that the results would be quite different and would actually be £573.55 down – a very different picture obviously.  

Whilst it was good that the bet won, it also highlighted the risks involved in a trader doing something out of the ordinary and placing a large stake like this. The APT team say they have now implemented a max stake of £150 so hopefully this won’t happen again.

It is another example of why we always recommend following our full review to its conclusion before signing up to a service, so issues like this can be highlighted and ironed out. This is particular the case with new and innovative software like APT, which there were likely to be teething issues with in its early days. 

 

 

 

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Auto Pro Trader – Results Update

21st December 2019

We are now following three live traders on APT – David Murphy, Garry Scullion and Garry Bassett, with Kevin Haskell no longer available on the platform as he is apparently working on other projects. 

We just went to live betting with the two Garrys yesterday so don’t have much to go on so far, but their proofing looked good whilst we were following them in paper trading mode. 

Overall we are pretty much even for live betting so far, with just £3.51 lost in total across the three live traders. 

You can view full results here.

The previous results for the paper trading mode are available in the second tab of the spreadsheet. 

They are also bringing on board a number of new traders, with a couple more proofing at the moment so the platform looks poised to really take off in 2020. 

Once again if you are interested in joining, please drop us an e-mail at info@honestbettingreviews.com and we will provide further details on how you can do so. 

 

 

 

 

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Auto Pro Trader – Results Update

22nd November 2019

After paper trading for a few weeks we finally switched to live betting on the APT platform on 2nd November, following the two traders currently available, David Murphy and Kevin Haskell. 

So far it has been a quiet start, down largely to the international break which meant not much trading was going on. However, in terms of the trades that have been placed we are currently £30 down on the live betting. 

You can view full results here.

The previous results for the paper trading mode are available in the second tab of the spreadsheet. 

Now that the international break is over we should see trade volume picking up and hopefully some profits too. Kevin did fantastically well last year on the NFL so we are looking forward to him getting stuck into that and seeing if he can repeat last year’s performance. 

Once again if you are interested in joining, please drop us an e-mail at info@honestbettingreviews.com and we will provide further details. 

 

 

 

 

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Auto Pro Trader – Results Update

22nd October 2019

Auto Pro Trader is a platform that allows you to automatically copy the trades of professional traders onto your Betfair account. 

We began a review of the service a month ago following their two pro traders, Kevin Haskell and David Murphy. It has been a bit of a slow start for APT, with it taking a couple of weeks to get going due to server upgrades and on-boarding all the new people, so we only began trading on 10th October and even then it was just paper trading rather than live betting. 

You can view the paper trading results here.

It’s probably a good thing we are just paper trading at the moment as they are £143 down so far. Hopefully once we go to live trading things will pick up and we’ll start building some nice profits, as we did during our live trial of the football trading webinars from the same traders. 

The demand for the service has been very high so they have been operating a waiting list for new people to join. If you would like to join the service please drop us a line at info@honestbettingreviews.com and we will provide more details of how you can get involved.

 

 

 

 

 

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Auto Pro Trader – New Review

23rd September 2019

Today we are starting a trial of one of the most exciting concepts we have come across since we started this website over four years ago. 

It is of a piece of software that has been over two years in development and we have been eagerly awaiting its official launch for some time now…well at last it is here!

It offers a huge breakthrough in the world of betting and trading and is called Auto Professional (Pro) Trader – or APT for short. It allows you to copy the trades of a professional Betfair trader automatically, without needing to do anything at all. 

So for example if the trader backs under 2.5 goals in Arsenal v Chelsea at 2.06 for £100 and then lays it at 1.5 for £37 profit, those trades would be automatically copied onto your Betfair account. 

The trader makes £37, you make £37 – simples!

The possibilities of this technology are endless but first and foremost it gives us the chance to earn a passive income from the skills and efforts of people who trade for a living. Trading is what they do day in, day out and now we have the opportunity to make money alongside them – without needing to lift a finger. So you can go out and enjoy your day and don’t need to be sat for hours in front of a screen as the trader will do all the work for you. How cool is that?!

To start off with they have two professional traders you can follow – Kevin Haskell who we actually followed via live webinars for six months earlier this year and who we can vouch for being very good – and David Murphy who has a strong reputation aswell. Kevin trades football, NFL and golf where as David trades just football. 

The team behind APT are also proofing up to ten other professional traders so there may well be more experts you can follow on the platform soon. 

You can select a staking level of low, medium or high, with the highest level being stakes of £100. To start off with there will be a default of low stakes just to keep an eye on liquidity and bet matching but that should be lifted fairly soon after.

In terms of cost, it is a revenue-share model so you pay 35% of whatever the traders make you in a month. So for example if they make you £1,000 profit, you would pay £350 for that month. If they don’t make you any profit then you don’t pay anything – simple as that. 

As we say, the potential of this is enormous and credit to the team for getting this software built as it can’t have been easy. 

We are going to be following this with our own money as we have a great deal of faith in the traders and are hoping for big things from them. It would be great if you could make a nice passive income of £1,000 per month or more from doing nothing – quite appealing really!

As usual we will update results here so you can see how things are going.  

Please note this is by invite only and they are opening it up to new members on 1st October so if you are interested, please drop us an e-mail at info@honestbettingreviews.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Phil’s Rugby Tips – Results Update

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It’s been a very rough spell for Phil’s Rugby Tips unfortunately, with a loss of 67 points since our last update just over a month ago. 

That means he is now 25 points down for our trial overall. 

You can view full results here. 

The trial started off so well but has sadly gone from bad to worse over the last couple of months. There have been some close calls which could have gone our way and seen the results looking much better right now, but that’s the way things go sometimes in betting. 

Phil seems to really like the one team to be winning at half time and the other winning at full time, but not many of those bets have come in which has affected results. 

Anyway, with rugby suspended for the time being like just about everything else, it remains to be seen when the action will get underway again but let’s hope it’s not too long. 

 

 

 

 

 

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Phil’s Rugby Tips – Results Update

19th February 2020

It’s been somewhat of a mixed start to our trial of Phil’s Rugby Tips. Things got off to a very good start initially as we went over 90 points up after the first couple of weeks. 

However, since the service launched its Six Nations Special, things have taken a bit of a turn for the worse with three losing weeks in a row. 

Still, overall we are 42 points up for our trial so far. 

You can view full results here. 

It could be seen as “sod’s law” that once the service went officially live with the Six Nations tips things would take a downturn after such an impressive run previously, but that is how it goes sometimes unfortunately. 

The good news however is that the pre-tournament picks for the Six Nations are still in reasonably good shape so hopefully we will see some profits there. 

In the meantime if you are interested in joining for the rest of the Six Nations, please drop us a line at info@honestbettingreviews.com and we will provide more info on joining Phil’s Rugby Tips. 

 

 

 

 

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Phil’s Rugby Tips – New Review

21st January 2020

If you’ve been following us for a while you will know that we have previously reviewed a professional rugby gambler/trader, Phil Worrall, who is very good at what he does.

During our previous four month trial Phil produced an excellent 162 points profit – made up of 136 points profit trading and 26 points from straight tips. 

Whilst his in-running trading generated substantial returns, it was difficult to follow for some people so the team decided to discontinue it sadly. 

However, Phil provided a tipping guide for last year’s Rugby World Cup which produced an excellent 48 points profit. 

And he has recently re-launched his service as a pure tipping service with weekly rugby tips – and it has got off to an absolute flyer!

The first four weeks were provided free of charge on a trial basis and made a whopping 118 points profit at a return on investment of over 100%!

Then last week was the first week of the paid service and it continued in the same fashion, making a very nice 17 points profit.

So in total that is 135 points profit in just five weeks – pretty awesome stuff! 

Together with the previous results achieved during our proofing of his various tips and trading, we would say Phil is in a league of his own when it comes to rugby betting. Now of course in gambling terms rugby may be more niche than other sports like football and horse racing which attract the majority of punters’ money but as we always say – if you can make money out of it we don’t really care what sport it is! 

Six Nations Special Offer

With the Six Nations tournament coming up Phil will be focusing his attention on that big style, with a full tournament guide containing outright tips as well as weekly selections for the upcoming games.

For a £5.00 introductory offer you can get Phil’s Six Nations Tournament Preview with outright tips, plus Week 1 of his tips.

You can then decide to sign up for his tips for the rest of the tournament if you like. 

After the Six Nations Phil will be operating his service year-round, with weekly tips for the big rugby fixtures of the week.

We will be proofing his tips here in our review as normal, but as we say with such a solid history we have proofed previously we would already have this as a “recommended” service. It will more a case of continuing to monitor results to see if they can hopefully maintain their level of excellence. 

Anyway, if you are interested in signing up to the £5 introductory offer for the Six Nations, please drop us a line at info@honestbettingreviews.com and we will provide more info on joining Phil’s service.