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In line with ‘elf and safety’ I wore a fluorescent vest during the writing of March’s What Really Wins Money, which will be winging its way to you soon.

We have a post-Cheltenham breakdown of Andrew David’s tips from February’s edition of What Really Wins Money and I must say the lad done tremendous and gave 110%. A 32.51-point profit for the festival has left some WRWM readers with smiles to accompany their Irish Stout!

I show you this month how to spot a winning football team with a high degree of accuracy. It’s all in the FS and the CS don’t you know! This is in line with my ‘Bankers or Blowouts’ football bankers at www.whatreallywinsmoney.co.uk.

I resurrect the idea of compounding this month. For me, the idea of winning 1% of your betting bank per day is achievable more through high probability-of-success lays than it is by backing. I’ll offer a couple of ideas and share my progress at www.whatreallywinsmoney.co.uk.

The Patriarch shows us another great football niche, which I know very well myself. The Statman readies us for the Flat Season which will be with us soon and highlights the best trainers out there to follow early on.

The ‘Home-Grown’ systems are updated for readers and there’s a trample through the third-party tipsters and systems which have caught my eye.

Whilst on the subject of systems and tipsters, here’s a little trick you might want to employ when you are checking out a tipster’s results:

1) Do a traditional January–December check. Has the system profited over this period?

2) Now, for an alternative perspective, look at the last betting bank balance available. Now go through the results to find the last time that the betting bank was on, or near, the most recent bank balance. This will tell you if the service is stagnant, or if there is gradual profit growth.

As an example, there is a service I monitored which had an excellent January–December 2014 profit figure, but from September 2014 to March 2015, the betting bank had not grown in real terms at all.

Tipsters, of course, will not advertise this: ‘Join us, we’ve made feck all profit for the last six months. Yes, join us today and you too could be punching the walls in frustration as your betting bank does not grow, one iota – guaranteed!

These tipsters, though, will mention the profit made between January and December the previous year!

You’ll be amazed how this little trick uncovers tipping services whose betting banks are simply not growing. What we want to see is a gradual growth. I like seeing betting banks who gradually but consistently break through, say, the 100-point profit barrier; then 200-point, then 300 point and so on.

Have a great weekend.