I have a lot of time and respect for the products sold through Steve Davidson’s company but on first inspection Zero Risk Trader is marketed in a more hyped-up way than his other systems and services, complete with unnecessary fluff such as photographs of fancy cars and bikini-clad women on exotic beaches.
Thankfully though the usual detail and proofings that normally accompany the sales pages of Steve Davidson products are also here so the aforementioned frills can be forgiven. Zero Risk Trader is a revamp and relaunch of a system known as Risk Free Trader, which was originally sold independently of Davidson, so perhaps he was only using the sales template from before.
Zero Risk Trader is a trading-style system for use in UK and Irish horse racing, that essentially allows you to cover your bases through making additional bets that protect your betting liability. But this isn’t just a risk-free betting strategy – Zero Risk Trader utilises an easy-to-miss loophole that exists between bookmakers and betting exchanges.
The cost is £199.95 complete with 3 months’ subscription to the Zero Risk Trader auto trade software or there’s the option of buying the system itself without the software for £149.95. The software is available at renewal costs of £99.97 every 6 months, or £139.97 every 12 months.
Upon purchasing you’re sent a 65 page PDF strategy guide and access to an informative video that further explains the system. The Zero Risk Trader ebook is well written and you’ll soon be understanding the strategy and wondering why you never thought of it yourself. There’s an advanced option to the strategy too in which further trading opportunities are presented.
The mathematical side of the brain will be engaged when using this system so be prepared for that. Your best bet would be to create a spreadsheet prior to any attempts to use the strategy.
A certain pattern in the odds of the runners of a particular race is what you’re to look out for, but the optional software can spot them much quicker at the mere touch of a button at the start of any day’s racing.
If you want to invest the additional cost that the software demands in the bets rather than buying the software, then you’ll soon get used to spotting the right opportunities to make selections, especially if you use a spreadsheet.
You need to be signed up to both Betfair and Betdaq and an arsenal of bookmakers to ensure you get best-odds guaranteed and to tart yourself out amongst them all. Being trading-based, prices can adjust in a hummingbird’s heartbeat so a level head is also required. Nevertheless, the idea is to choose races where any trading is not going to result in any more of a loss than the exchange commission on the trade so the stress factor is minimised.
You’ll probably make around three selections a day and some of them will be at high odds. This is obviously attractive when simply backing but some of those high odds applied to laying bets which means high liabilities, so you have to make sure that there are enough funds in the betting exchange bank to cover it. For some this might be a limitation to how much money you can make in any given trade.
This system also takes up quite a bit of your time (especially if you’re not using the optional software), so you do need to sum up whether or not the money earned justifies the time spent.
I trialled it for a month and I’m impressed. I only had 8 losing days and the average loss was a lot less than the average amount won on winning days (0.3 points average daily loss compared to 3.2 points average daily win). In total, my profit was up by 66 points which is not as much as the 113 points profit they claimed on the Zero Risk Trader website in the same time-frame but results must differ between traders with this product and I can quite believe they made this amount.
The expense is quite a lot but if you correctly use the strategy you’ll make your money back within 10 days.
All in all, whilst the word ‘zero-risk’ is slightly disingenuous it’s low-risk enough and I heartily recommend the system.
