TFT Gold Silver and LTD – Final Review

31/01/2012

Sgt Magnifique reviews TFT Gold Silver and LTD

12 weeks of the trial are gone and it’s time to see what we’ve got at the end.

Profitability:

Two of the strategies (Golden Goal and Silver Goal) turned a profit, and one (LTD) showed a loss. The final figures are:

Gold  +94.5 pts (to 30 pts stakes) in 30 matches
Silver  +148 pts (to 30 pts liability (20 pts stakes)) in 41 matches
LTD  -23.45 pts (to 30 pts stakes) in 18 matches

P/L on all three: +219.05

As you see, the profit figures are nowhere near big. Looking at a number of matches, you might want to ask if it’s worth at all, and this would be a good question. The results are suggesting:

Gold  +3.15 pts per match (10.5% of the initial stake)
Silver  +3.6 pts per match (8.8% of the initial stake)
LTD  -1.3 pts per match (-7.22% of the initial stake)

Not bad actually for the first two, but bear in mind that both are betting rather than trading. If they were trading systems, the results would be looking a lot better.

Another issue I have is that I feel a longer distance is needed. 20-30 matches is clearly not enough to judge how well a system performs. This is especially related to LTD.

2 out of 5

Ease of use:

Pretty straightforward rules, haven’t encountered any difficulty following them. However, match selection is very subjective at times and unfortunately this is 80% of what determines your results, even though the manual gives good guidelines. LTD possesses the least subjectivity, Golden Goal goes after it and Silver Goal seemed the most subjective.

4 out of 5

Risk:

None of the three banks had a danger of suffering substantial losses. The advice to use 3% per bet/trade makes it quite safe to use the strategies. The only way to lose a lot is to be bad or unlucky at match selection.

3 out of 5

Return on investment (ROI):

Gold  10.5%
Silver  14.35%
LTD  -4.35%

Since the odds you make your lays at are low, the figures look ok, but not really impressive.

3 out of 5

Support and documentation:

Manuals contain clear descriptions of what, when and why you should do, but there’s a problem common to a lot of football betting/trading manuals – selections of matches depends on you a great deal. I feel the guidelines on this could be more exact.

Can’t say anything of support as I didn’t need it during the trial.

3 out of 5

Time needed to apply the system:

Although you bet during 2nd half only or at half-time you need to monitor games for potential qualifiers. With some of those strategies you also need to watch the translation of the 2nd half. Unfortunately, you can’t pick your potential selections beforehand – the opportunities may appear or may not appear in a game. It’s not as time-consuming as some other football strategies, but not a minute work either.

2 out of 5

All in all, the strategies are not bad, but I would recommend using them as a part of a little systems portfolio. This way they are worth a go, otherwise probably not – too much time and effort for modest returns. Besides, I think they need to be modified. The LTD strategy, the most straightforward of all (the one that I followed letter to letter), gave the worst result, while Silver Goal, the most subjective one, showed the best. I guess, is the reason behind it is match selection. A person with different view could have picked different games. This could be eliminated by a number of new strict rules, but it is as it is for now.

Please, bear it in mind if you want to try out the strategies. Overall I give TFT Gold Silver and LTD 3 stars out of 5.

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Cheers,

Sgt Magnifique reviewing TFT Gold Silver and LTD