It has been a nice break here from club football and we hope you have enjoyed the European Championships. So far it looks like we are in for an exciting finish going forward this next week or so.
Here at FTS we have been focusing on the upcoming new season and analysing everything we have done over the past 10 years to produce a set up that meets the needs of all bettors/traders who want to profit. The survey results were very interesting, and whilst we must not make a knee jerk reaction to every individual point or request there were numerous themes that ran through the answers to the questions that clearly we need to address, and make sure issues are put right going forward.
As such, I have now joined forces with Kav Dadfar full time and we have formed a limited company for FTS with an office set up, with both our partners, Sam and Sally, helping out with administration and making sure your needs are catered for in the realms of customer service. With the traffic the site gets and as a one-man band for 10 years, it is simply not possible for me to run this site alone any longer so I had a choice to make, fold it up or change the structure.
I still see we offer great value, advice and profitability and we are not marketers; we want to educate people to do better and we now have a core of FTS members who are doing so.
Over the course of the next few weeks we will be sending emails and posting information and blogs addressing your issues, concerns and highlighting the way forward.
We have put in place an 18-24 month program structured at catering for different levels of gambler, from those who are complete beginners and want to dip their toe in the water, to those of you who have been with FTS for 5 years or more, are more advanced in your set up but still not making headway.
As always with betting, a lot of it will be down to mindset and your approach, and all these issues will be tackled in future information for you.
Part of our main focus will be on education. The overwhelming requirement from the survey was the desire to learn, which is fantastic news for us here, and that was always my initial goal for the site; to educate people to bet more responsibly and profitably. Yes there will always be people who only want tips and to bet, but the key to winning at this game is to train yourself and learn exactly what it takes.
We are also taking this opportunity to state that, after years of abuse from a handful of members, we will now be operating a simple ‘one strike’ policy and, in future, reserve the right to cancel any memberships belonging to people who choose to take their frustrations out on us. Past abusers will also be refused any FTS service going forward. There will be no exceptions to this policy as we want to ensure that our positive members get our full attention and support.
2016/17 Season
It is clear the membership structure needs changing. The survey results showed that people were not fully understanding of what they joined, why they joined it and what to do with the features of their membership.
So, we will now have 3 categories of membership:
FTS Beginner
This will be the option available to all “newbies” and the place to start. This will include a newly written version of the FTS manual, which will give an introduction to Lay the Draw Trading, and selections will be posted freely for people to trade, as well as using the manual to find their own methods.
Those who previously purchased the Original FTS LTD manual at any time since we went online in 2007 will still be permitted access to the LTD selections
FTS Beginner Content:
Original FTS LTD Selections & Trading Manual
Dedicated beginner’s tuition area covering staking, bank management and bank building
Example record keeping spreadsheets for you to download and update
FTS Beginner membership will be available 365 days a year priced at a one off cost of £49
FTS Enhanced
Aimed at the intermediate bettor and the person who has little time but wants to profit from his betting, this service will be a tipping only service where we will do the work for you and simply send the bets for you to place. We will expect to start the first tips in the first week of September.
These bets will include the Original FTS LTD selections, plus selections from 4 of Ian’s personal systems across various markets for the entire 2016/17 season.
Results will be posted weekly and we will have a dedicated tuition area on site covering staking plans, bank management, coping with losses, expectancy of winnings over a period, risk management and building a betting portfolio.
FTS Enhanced Content:
Original FTS LTD Selections & Trading Manual
Selections from 4 of Ian’s personal betting systems provided throughout the whole season commencing 1st September
Results Posted weekly in downloadable format
Dedicated tuition area covering staking, bank management, coping with losing runs, expectancy of winning and how to build a portfolio to meet your attitude to risk
Example record keeping spreadsheets for you to download and update
FTS Enhanced membership will be available on a LIMITED basis as a one off sign up for the entire season picks for £179 for a limited time for those who pre-register (price will increase 31st July).
FTS Ultimate
This is the replacement of FTS ONE and is our new flagship level of membership aimed at those who have a wider knowledge of football betting, want to make use of tools such as the odds sheet and database, and want to really progress their betting activity towards full time betting in the future.
FTS Ultimate Content features:
40 weeks of Odds Sheets for Premier League, Bundesliga, Primera Division and Serie A
Full access to Odds Sheet database of over 5,500 games with returns filled in to help you find your own strategies
Ian’s personal bet selections across all 4 leagues and numerous markets
FREE Full access to FTS Ultimate Statistics Tables – the statistics section updated daily covering the current season. This will be reduced to 12 main leagues to enable better match selection and prevent over trading. Full strategy videos will be available to members to best utilise this valuable section of membership
Access to Original FTS ‘Lay The Draw’ selections
NEW back and lay selections to be placed at half time in selected matches in the ‘correct score’ market from our personal database of almost 10,000 matches
Full set of tuition articles and videos on how to use the various databases and build your own systems
NEW Correct Score Trading manual – a manual packed with numerous strategies for trading in this popular market
Example betting portfolios using the supplied systems for different bank levels and risk tolerance
Results area with results updated weekly
Example record keeping spreadsheets for you to download and update
FTS Ultimate membership will be available for LIMITED membership as a one off sign up for the entire season at an early bird exclusive price of £399 for those that register and sign up by 31st July.
Any remaining spaces after the 31st July will be available until filled or until midnight on the 31st August, at a rate of £449. Membership will be closed after this date.
Limited availability
We are limiting spaces for Enhanced and Ultimate subscriptions this year. We do have a large number of people planning on signing-up to FTS One (Now FTS Ultimate) so the best way to avoid disappointment is to register for the early bird interest.
Early Bird Registration will open on the 12th July
Subscriptions will then open on 26th July ONLY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE REGISTERED EARLY BIRD INTEREST. If you missed registering, you will be able to sign up from August 1st.
Once spaces are filled, membership will be closed for the season, with no exceptions so it will be your responsibility to put those dates in your diary now and act quickly when the emails are sent out. Unfortunately, we have to do this to ensure we can offer the right level of support to people who sign-up.
We will also be introducing a loyalty program from season to season for Enhanced and Ultimate members going forward with extra benefits and tuition days from August 2017 onwards.
Over the next few weeks we will be posting various blogs and videos highlighting different aspects of FTS Ultimate and FTS Enhanced, so please hold off on questions until you have seen these.
Going forward on the new site we then have our focus turning to education.
The Gambling Academy newsletters – have been re-written and produced into one book. This will go on site on 1st September and will be free to download for those that subscribed to the original newsletters until November 1st
Seminars – we will conduct 3 seminars in the summer of 2017 in London, Birmingham and Glasgow. These will be one day affairs aimed at those around the beginner level.
Clinics – we will be looking to conduct FTS clinics commencing with Reading and Manchester in November 2016 and spreading across the nation (and abroad if numbers suit) through 2017. These clinics will be for 5 or 6 people only, in an office location, where we will go over your set up and put you on the road to success. Clinics will be aimed at those on the Enhanced level of membership and above.
FTS Racing Weekend – we are looking to separate the FTS Football from FTS Racing and the racing site will be developed over early 2017. We hope to kick off its full launch with an FTS racing weekend at Lingfield on a provisional date of 8th/ 9th April.
This will entail a meet up and lunch before racing starts in an executive box at the course on Saturday, with a tipster to run through the day’s card, overnight accommodation in the attached Marriott hotel and a seminar on the Sunday commencing at 9.30am and ending around 3.30pm covering many aspects of winning at this difficult betting sport. This will obviously be limited numbers owing to restriction on the executive box capacity.
As mentioned above over the next few weeks we will be posting various blogs and videos highlighting different aspects of FTS Enhanced and FTS Ultimate, so please hold off on questions until you have seen these.
Yours sincerely
FTS Team
