mattdoucet wrote:

Sports Betting
There are other forms of investing money apart from currency trade and derivatives. An

example of such is international sport bets. The money is deposited in a brokerage house
that places sport bets all over the world. You, the investor, don’t place the bets by
yourself, but you leave that to experts who charge a commission for doing it. Because it
is the brokerage house that makes the choice of the bets to place, this way of earning
money is not hazard but an alternative form of investment. It should be emphasized here
that we are not talking about bookie bets, but about transactions made on our behalf by
specialized companies who are highly motivated to get the best possible results. Such
company is very much like a brokerage house, but not dealing in shares but in results of
sport competitions. In most cases the percentage of successful in-plus transactions is
similar to the percentage of successful share investments, so there is actually not much
difference between these two ways of investing money, which allows viewing sport
betting as a sensible method of diversifying your portfolio.

Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:45 pm