About Sports Arbitrage Guide

Sports Arbitrage Guide was created in 2006 to provide reliable objective information about sports arbitrage trading. Starting out as a bookmaker listing at SureBetBookies.com, Sports Arbitrage Guide has grown over the years to provide:

• A Detailed Explanation – Basic introductory information to make sense of what arbitrage means, how it works etc.
• Services Lists – Comprehensive lists and descriptions of all of the alert services and other arbitrage related components and software
• Detailed Trading Guides – A thorough and detailed guide to getting started arbitrage trading and how to do it successfully
• Peripheral Information – Numerous additional arbitrage related links, downloads and information
• Blog – The only real sports arbitrage focussed news, reviews and information source online
• Bookmaker Database – The only searchable/filterable bookmaker database online designed for sports arbitrage traders
• The Fast Track Video Series – The only video series ever designed to get people started sports arbitrage trading as quickly and easily as possible
• Newsletter – The only newsletter and mailing list dedicated to covering all aspects of the sports arbitrage trading industry

As a result, Sports Arbitrage Guide has become of one of the most recognisable websites online with regards to Arbitrage Trading. Constantly on the first page of Google for all major arbitrage related search terms (often first or top 3), Sports Arbitrage Guide has seen continual traffic growth since its creation, and this growth shows no signs of weakening.

See Sports Arbitrage Guide’s entire online history in the Web Archive

Website Directory

The Introduction

With a name that is pretty self explanatory, this section is for the people who have never heard of arbitrage before, through to the people who don’t yet understand exactly how sports arbitrage works or why it works. This section only introduces you to the concept of arbitrage and very specifically avoids explaining how to trade sports arbitrage. The ‘how to’ is left until the third section, Arbitrage Trading.

• What is Arbitrage?

  Explains what arbitrage is and provides simple examples.

  • Subpage: Examples

    Expands upon the arbitrage explanation by providing several real life examples of sports betting arbitrage and explaining them in detail.

• Basic Arbitrage Calculations

  Explains how sports betting arbitrage is calculated. Keeps it simple, provides a few examples.

  • Subpage: Advanced Arbitrage Calculations

    Expands upon the basic sports arbitrage calculations by going into more detail and more complex examples.

• The 5 Risks of arbitrage…

  Describes the 5 risks which threaten each arbitrage trade and then explains how to avoid or minimise your exposure to them.

• Arbitrage Long Term

  Addresses how arbitrage can be ‘risk free’ by virtue of long term application averaging the odds mathematically to be in your favour.

• F.A.Q.

  Frequently Asked Questions by people who have only just discovered arbitrage and are considering whether they are interested in the idea or not.

• Is Sports Betting Arbitrage For Me?

  Offers suggestions for what needs to be considered when dealing with this question.

  • Subpage: Work At Home

    An introductory article explaining the advantages of Sports Arbitrage Trading as a work at home opportunity.

The Components Section

This section provides links to and details of all of the necessary and optional extra components of sports betting arbitrage. This section is aimed at being an objective fact reporting of what each provider offers, and not a review of that service. Reviews of bookmakers, E-wallets, alert services, Accessories and E-books can occasioanlly be found in the Sports Arbitrage Guide Blog and in the Forums. The details provided here include all known providers for each type
of component and only the relevent details of each.

• Bookmakers

  This page simply explains the importance of the role bookmakers play in arbitrage (the only necessary component) and then provides a link to SureBetBookies, Sports Arbitrage Guide’s partner site which provides a searchable database of bookmakers associated with Sports Arbitrage alert services. SureBetBookies provides all arbitrage relevent details for all of these bookmakers in a format which allows easy comparison so that bookmaker selection is easy.

• E-wallets

  Describes Moneybookers and Neteller in detail as they are the primary two ewallets used to arbitrage.

• Alert Services

  Provides details for every sports arbitrage alert service known. From downloaded software alert services, to arbitrage specific website alert programs, to odds comparison websites which provide arbitrage alerts, to organisations which manually find arbs and send out email alerts: if a company or website provides a method of alerting its subscribers to arbitrage, you will find that company listed here with relevent details plus links to reviews, user experiences, screenshots and any other relevent information.

  • Subpage: Ex-Alert Services

    This is the Sports Arbitrage Alert Service cemetary. This is where all of the old websites and software go to die.

• Free Trials

  An important extension to the Alert Services page, this page highlights the alert services which offer free trials or free alerts. Without going into details about the general service, this page just describes the conditions of the trials themselves.

• Accessories

  Describes details of the various programs and website which are available to assist your arbitrage trading. Specifically covering arbitrage calculators, arbitrage orientated browsers, arbitrage trading account management programs and any other accessory imaginable.

• E-Books

  Lists many of the available e-books and provides rudimentary details on them to help readers decide which ebook they might consider purchasing should they decide purchasing one was worth the expense.

Arbitrage Trading

The Arbitrage Trading section contains detailed guide articles on each of the stages of arbitrage trading. This is the section which explains what you need to do to get set up, how to place trades, and how to avoid mistakes.

• Professional Arbitrage Trading

  Simply describes what a professional arbitrage trader can earn before laying out exactly what the rest of the Arbitrage Trading section of Sports Arbitrage Guide is going to contain in it.

• Work At Home

  This page talks about Sports Arbitrage Trading as a serious work at home profession, and discusses some of the difficulties in becoming an arbitrage trader.

• Strategic Overview

  An important summary of the details provided over the rest of the Arbitrage Trading section. This page basically explains exactly what you need to do to get started arbitrage trading, without spending much time on any of the details.

• Setting Up E-Wallets

  Directs readers to create E-wallet accounts for arbitrage trading, along with some pointers.

• Setting Up Alerts

  A breif page on taking out arbitrage alert service trials in order to find one which you like. Some pointers on how to evaluate alert services.

• Setting Up Bookmakers

  A breif overview of how you should go about setting up your bookmaker accounts and funding them.

• Bookmakers Detailed

  A much more detailed extrapolation of the process outlined in the ‘Setting Up Bookmakers’ page.

• Placing Arbs 1

  This page describes the process you will need to go through for every arb you receive. Only describes the first half – where you decide whether you think the arb is a real opportunity or not…

• Placing Arbs 2

  This page continues on from the previous page, and explains how to actually PLACE the bets which make up the arb.

• Bonus Overview

  A brief over view of bookmaker bonuses and how profitable they can be to arbers, plus reference to a few extra articles on the subject.

• SR Bonuses

  Detailed explanation of how to claim Stake Returned Bonuses. Talks about meeting roll over requirements.

• SNR Bonuses

  Detailed explanation of how to claim Stake Not Returned Freebets. Talks about matched betting and the return percentages on your matched bets.

• Career Arbitrage

  Covers the topic of arbitrage trading over the long term. The difficulties, and the solutions.

• F.A.Q.

  Frequently Asked Questions, and their answers. This page is different to the FAQ in the Introduction section because it deals with the questions related to Trading itself (rather than questions about what arbitrage is). Many questions have long answers, and so are referred to relevent articles published in the Sports Arbitrage Guide blog, as appropriate.

More

This section covers everything else. The three other sections cover the primary points, what arbitrage is, what is needed to do it, and how to do it. This section is where you go to find more information above and beyond that. Interactivity with other arbitrageurs in the forums, reviews of the services, news, contacts, links to other sites with more information etc.

• SAG Overview

  The page you are currently viewing is designed so that you can browse the entire site without needing to read every page to figure out what it is talking about. Browse this page and figure out what pages you are interested in then go straight there.

• Sports Arbitrage Guide Blog

  The Sports Arbitrage Guide Blog is used for a variety of reasons – primarily it is used to quickly and easily write new articles on topics which need more information, or as a review of a service, or to publish important news. Navigate with the Topics and Dates in the right hand column.

• Download

  Provides a few simple downloads, including a few excel documents for tracking your arbitrage trades and bookmaker accounts, and an arbitrage calculator called ArbsCalc.

• Links

  Simply provides categories and links to each of the link subpages listed below.

  • Subpage: Helpful Arbitrage Links

    Every decent sports arbitrage website and wbsite directory online, listed and described.

  • Subpage: Bookmaker Information Links

    Great Resources for bookmaker selection and general information. Do your bookmaker research here.

  • Subpage: Sports Website Links

    Sports Resources. Useful for checking game times, game results and other details which may affect your arbs.

  • Subpage: Money Making Website Links

    Links to a range of websites which cover methods of making money online. A great resource for arbers who have spare time to make other sources of income.

  • Subpage: Gambling Related Links

    Bookmakers, Casinos, Betting Systems, Betting bots, poker etc. Links to anything related to online gambling worth mentioning

  • Subpage: Links to Things You Should Know About

    Various links to websites completely unrelated to Sports Betting Arbitrage, but which we here at SAG believe are worth mentioning anyway.

• Contact

  How to contact us here at SAG, and a little about who we are and what we do.

• Subpage: Advertise on SAG

  An explanation of how advertisements work on SAG and our price structure.

• Subpage: Affiliate Links

  This page gives a quick explanation for the affiliate links on Sports Arbitrage Guide – How they work, how they affect the website, and why we affiliate.

• Subpage: The Disclaimer

  The most necessary page for all websites which offer information which can be misused. Please read before doing anything stupid with your money.