Value Investing in Betting

The majority of Americans have heard the name Warren Buffett. He is time after time one of the two richest people in the world, and his prosperity is 100% self made. He made his money by investing in businesses with stock prices temporarily depressed below instrnsic value; a method called Value Investing.

Value investing is funny. When the concept is explained, nine out of ten times, an investor understands the idea and often has an "aha" moment as it is taught. Of course… buying a stock in a boring industry with concrete earnings and equity is a better choice than buying an overvalued stock whose company is constantly on the cover of Businessweek and The Wall St. Journal. Its human nature to overvalue what is exciting and sexy and underestimate what is boring but stable. The past has established that boring but steady stocks considerably outperform their exciting and overvalued counterparts. So why has this easy opportunity to make money in the stock market persisted?

Investors who understand the concept of value investing are often not disciplined enough to create in a boring but steady opportunity when the actual opportunity comes about. "This time is different" they think. While they understand that value investing may win more often than not, they can't bring themselves to buy an actual boring stock when an exciting and quickly advancing one is staring them in the face.

Betting isn't much different. Want to know a quick way to make money in betting? Bet on heavy underdogs. In an article published in the Journal of Economics and Finance, Andrew Weinbech and Rodney Paul, found that betting heavy underdogs in NCAA Basketball would time after time yield a win percentage to account for a 5% Vig. In traditional betting lines (bet $110 to win $100), you need to win 52.7% of your bets to break even. Weinbech and Paul found that merely betting heavy underdogs won at greater than 54%.

So why does this chance exist? People love betting on the hot team as much as they love investing in the hot stock. If a team is featured on the cover of the top sports magazines every week bettors are less likely to notice if that team is favored by 20 pts. when they should be favored by 16. If the team is ahead by 25 points with 5 minutes left in the 2nd half and their reserves lose 7 points of the lead in the closing minutes, it will hardly make news. All that will be reported is that "X Team wins again big! They are unstoppable." They may be unstoppable, but they may not be profitable if the lines get too big, and Paul and Weinbech proved that big favorites are hardly ever gainful.

The most critical thing you can have in betting is a method that works. Make sure you find a money-making method and stick with it at all times. Yes, you can win long term betting… If you have dicipline.

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