Xtremely Interesting
Despite having planned to write a post on the trading and gambling platforms, I got hijacked and pleasantly surprised by a new EA, which had all of the hallmarks of a spammy fly-by-night, but somehow got me to click through and try it. Despite the excesses of the sales copy, it immediately distinguished itself by the quality of the user guide and even more by the quantity and nature of information displayed on the trading screen. (Click to enlarge)
Old Familiar Ways…
The fact that I have a well-established trio of favourite roulette bots shouldn’t prevent me from trying out some fresh offerings from time to time. I recently tested three very different systems, though the results were depressingly uniform.
The WinRouletteBot acquisition was a sort of spinoff from a half-baked Clickbank strategy. My thinking was that while thousands of people are competing for the buying public’s attention for well-presented glossy products like Mike Geary’s Truth About Abs, there may be perfectly good products being overlooked because the product’s developers don’t know how to construct an effective website or marketing campaign. I wondered whether WinRouletteBot might be just such a diamond in the rough – it certainly had a downbeat sales page and virtually no active promotion. Sadly, as Winston Churchill might have said, it is a modest product with much to be modest about. It is not entirely clear what the various staking strategies are intended to do, and there is no documentation or Help facility to clarify the matter.
The systems on offer are the Hawks strategy (which is basically a martingale where bet selection is whatever didn’t hit last time) and Perso, which isn’t familiar to me.
I tried out a couple of variations with a £50 bank – 500 units of 10p a go – and quickly ripped through the lot.
The one virtue of the system was its cheapness to try out – only 50 Euros from Clickbank. And you get what you pay for in this life. Or at least that’s what I thought until I tried the next bot….
A Blog A Day
As far as the betting bots go, the botfarm is in a wintry hiatus at the moment, with funds depleted or withdrawn and nothing running on a continuous basis except the Psychic Soccer Profits Bot. I expect this situation to change soon, with the Roulette Bot V3 promised imminently, as well as an ultra-high-priced Holy Grail edition which some of you may already have heard about.
But that doesn’t mean all has been quiet on the bot front. Automated money-making propositions are the real remit of the botfarm, rather than it necessarily being exclusively about trading or gambling. That’s why I make no apologies for talking about my latest acquisition in the Internet Marketing domain, as it falls squarely into that definition (unless I get something horribly wrong).
The Article Marketing Robot lent automation muscle to what would have otherwise been the very tedious task of editing and submitting articles to hundreds of directories. But it does so on a one-off basis, with quite a bit of human intervention. What WP Robot does does truly seem to be a set and forget automation of the blogging process, incorporating enough monetisation features to provide a steady dripfeed of income for every blog you set going. To show how I’ve been able to set up and populate 5 blogs over the past 5 days, I’ll set down in bullet form the exact steps I take to get my blogs up and running.
Set and Forget
Back in the mists of Botfarm time I wrote a post entitled “Send in the Experts” which proposed a Botfarm ATM Index for rating the comparative merits of different markets and bots. The ATM Index was never constructed, but the factors I proposed are still relevant. The 6th of these was Intervention Level and has ended up being one of the main factors deciding whether my bots remain active or not. At busy times for the family, work or other online interests, bots which regularly fall over, exhaust their bankroll or need parameter resets tend to stay out of the game for a long time. The ones which are truly set and forget plough on regardless and can sometimes yield a nice surprise when you do go back to check on their well-being. Here’s a quick rundown of how they stack up from poorest to best…
Standing Start
My commentaries and suggestions about Virtual Private Servers (VPS) are distributed pretty widely throughout previous posts, and my advice has changed somewhat along the way. For this reason I thought it would be useful to do an update and summary of my current recommendations for where to use a VPS and how to set it up. On the “how to” front I thought it would be good for me to try to set up a working VPS/Bot combination from a standing start to be able to give a proven step-by-step guide. The tiny commercial bit of my brain is thinking that at some stage this may form a chapter of an ebook, but for now it’s yours for free!
Value Graphing
About a week ago, and mainly as a marketing exercise for the GreyHorse Bot, I blasted the following article out to about 500 directories. Reproduced here for those interested in a new way of analysing the Betfair markets, with the advantage that, unlike the article directories, I can here append a graphic illustrating the end result of the analysis.
Value Graphing – A New Technique For Using GreyHorseBot To Bet On Betfair Markets
Any user of a bot on the Betfair market enjoys considerable benefits compared to bot users on most other betting venues. For one thing, far from outlawing bot use, Betfair provide a free Application Program Interface (API) to allow developers to interact directly with its markets, including bet placement, without having to use the slow and clunky web interface. Even better, provided your account is in reasonable standing, as judged by the number of Betfair points you have earned, you can download gigabytes of results data direct from Betfair to underpin your own analysis. It is this data, correctly analysed, which can give you indications as to which odds ranges to set up for automatic betting in GreyHorseBot.
Silver Lining
The political landscape in the UK may resemble a freshly ploughed field, but it’s an ill wind… The developers of WinPro and Winalot at Easy-EA.com always say that their Expert Advisors need to be tested over the long haul and for the past few weeks I’ve been gritting my teeth and taking this on trust as my already puny bankroll has been further depleted by adverse trading conditions. The day before yesterday my faith was rewarded, as in a single day my bankroll doubled, while the EAs delivered on their design criteria of losing small and winning big. OK, in this case big is a relative term and doubling up still just brought me to a little over £100, but at least it’s the right direction.
Another more directly election-related boost came from IG Index. It wasn’t actually a bot strategy, but out-of-the-money simultaneous calls and puts on the FTSE value yielded another 180% in 24 hours. God bless volatility!
These are the benefits of diversification. As the roulette and greyhound strats are hitting a cool spot, the slack is being taken up the financial markets and football (with the revised version of the Psychic Soccer Profits bot having just been released).
I am starting to diversify my blogging activities too, with a new baby blog devoted to Clickbank Refunds and the Internet Marketing Wall of Shame (which will fill up in no time).
Now – here are two blog-related puzzles which I’d very much appreciate comments on. The first is one I’ve mentioned before. The number of people signing up for the newsletter remains very low, but I’m getting much bigger numbers signing up for blog userids, a much more cumbersome process, whose sign up form is tucked out of the way in the Admin section. Standard blog users have no posting rights and all comments are vetted, so can anyone tell me what is the attraction? The second query is why someone should buy EuroBlaster from my by now very old affiliate link. When was the last time I mentioned it? Haven’t they followed the rest of my posts since then? I don’t want to have to revisit and rewrite every word I’ve ever published, so – for the record – my only live recommendations are the ones I place in Best of the Bots at the top of the page or the Botfarm Recommends section in the sidebar.