Tips For Success In The World's First Sports Stock Market PDF Print E-mail
Written by George Priestley   
Wednesday, 27 October 2010 12:35
The AllSportsMarket is a finance exchange employing a pro trading platform to purchase and sell issues of sports teams. It is similar to the stockmarket, but with sports groups! You vie with other players for real cash. Money is earned from the highs and lows of the costs of groups and from dividends paid when groups win. The AllSportsMarket is twenty-four hours, 365 days a year - you can trade at anytime and as frequently as you want.
by GeorgePriestley


The AllSportsMarket is a finance exchange employing a pro trading platform to purchase and sell issues of sports teams. It is similar to the stockmarket, but with sports groups! You vie with other players for real cash. Money is earned from the highs and lows of the costs of groups and from dividends paid when groups win. The AllSportsMarket is twenty-four hours, 365 days a year - you can trade at anytime and as frequently as you want.

You can fund an account for as little as $25 or try the no catch guest entry to try the control interface. Unlike the market, where you want a large up front amount to start, and betting where you can lose all of your money at once, you can begin with a minuscule sum of money and not lose everything in single shot.

Buy Low and Sell High

Just like the stock market, you make money off of the ups and downs of the underlying security. In the case of the AllSportsMarket, the security is the issue of the team. Buying shares with the intention of selling them later at a higher price to make a profit is called long. In ASM, you make the difference minus the total commissions you pay.

This is the most effective way to make your gains, it does take some timing and patience. The real question is what do you consider high low? A nice thing to take a look at is the costs of the rest of the groups in the league. You should be expecting the better groups will have higher prices, but there'll be the odd discrepancies for one reason or another. With that acknowledged, you have got a range of costs and you must look to buy good groups that are in the low price bracket. Do as much research as practical to discover what groups are being undervalued.

Dividends

An alternative way to make cash ( and one of the keys to greatness in ASM ) is dividend payments. Each game your team wins, the dividend pot grows. You are paid dividends based primarily on league categorical pay outs and payout schedules.

The dividend plan is an approach to make gains from dividend payments. Here is where you purchase shares of a team in particular to capture the dividend payout. There are numerous dividend payout schedules dependent on the league you own shares in. The groups that have higher dividend reserves pay higher dividends. Dividend reserves change from game-to-game dependent on the leagues categorical rules of dividend transfers for the winner and loser of the game. In the trading system they list the highest dividend reserves ( see the figure on the right ).

Dividends are good in the way that they reward for selecting winning groups. For instance, over the course of a long season, the Detroit Pistons will possibly win more than they lose, and will so pay out a good quantity of dividends.

You need to be careful when buying shares solely for dividends - the share price may go down leaving you with a net loss even after you capture the dividend.

Selling Short

You may also make cash selling short. This involves borrowing a share and selling it expecting the share to decline in price so that you can get it back at a lower cost. Selling short can be more dangerous due the fact you can lose more than what you put in since the price has an unlimited upside potential. When you long, the stock can only go down as low as $0.00 and you only lose as much as you put in. When you short you might lose what you put in and more.

DISCLAIMER: This article is provided as information only and is not to be taken as financial advice.