Percentage Staking Plan
The Percentage Staking Plan is a dynamic betting strategy where each stake is calculated as a fixed percentage of your current betting bank. This approach adjusts your stakes in line with your bankroll’s fluctuations, aiming to manage risk and potentially enhance growth.
Key Features:
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Stake Calculation: For each bet, you wager a predetermined percentage of your current betting bank. For instance, with a starting bank of £100 and a staking percentage of 2%, your initial stake would be £2. After each bet, the stake is recalculated based on the updated bank total.
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Bankroll Responsiveness: This plan increases stakes following a win (when the bank grows) and decreases stakes after a loss (when the bank shrinks), aligning your betting amounts with your current financial standing.
Additional Options:
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Minimum Stake Setting: You can set a minimum stake equal to your initial stake, ensuring that your stake never falls below this amount, even if your bank decreases.
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Variable Percentage on Profits: It’s possible to apply a different staking percentage to profits above your starting bank, allowing for more aggressive or conservative staking on gains.
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Last Bet of the Day Indicator: By marking a selection as the last bet of the day, you can choose to recalculate the stake only at the end of your betting session, providing control over when stake adjustments occur.
Considerations:
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Risk Management: Selecting an appropriate staking percentage is crucial. A higher percentage can lead to rapid bankroll growth but also increases the risk of significant losses. Conversely, a lower percentage offers more stability but slower growth.
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Discipline: Consistently applying the staking plan and recalculating stakes after each bet requires discipline but is essential for the strategy’s effectiveness.
The Percentage Staking Plan offers a flexible and responsive approach to bankroll management, adjusting stakes in line with your betting performance. However, it’s important to carefully select your staking percentage and adhere strictly to the plan to effectively manage risk and capitalize on potential profits.
The Percentage Staking Plan is similar to level stakes but with a vital difference. The stake is always linked to the cumulative total. Sometimes known as the ‘plateau philosophy’, the percentage staking plan says you should recalculate your stake whenever your betting bank increases or decreases.
The default settings are shown below. This is straight forward Percentage Staking.
The Stake is re-calculated after every bet.
There are numerous additional settings that allow us to vary how we use the Percentage Staking Plan.
First setting is ‘Minimum Stake Equals Start Stake’. When this is ticked, the stake can never go below the first initial stake. So in our settings above if the option was ticked the stake would never go below £1. In the screenshot below we can see how this works in reality. Previously Bet 2 is shown as £0.99. In this screenshot Bet 2 is shown as £1.
The next option is the ‘Apply Different Percent % To Bet to Any Profits’. When ticked this allows us to use a separate percentage on any profit above the start bank. So if the Cumulative Total stands at £150 we can have a different Percent to Bet on the £50 than on the £100.
In the screenshot below I have switched it on and set it at 5%.
We can see how this effects our results.
The next option is the ‘Use to Signify Last Bet of the Day’. When this is checked the the stake will only be re-calculated at the end of the betting day. TSM will check the selection text for the code . Only when it finds this code will the stakes be re-calculated.
To only re-calculate when <LB> is found then we need to switch off the ‘Re-Calculate after x Amount of Bets’ as below.
We can see the effect this has on our results. Bet 13 includes the <LB> Last Bet Code. TSM re-calculates the next stake so that Bet 14 has an increased stake.
Another setting we can do is ‘Re-calculate the stakes after x amounts of bets’. At Default this is set to 1. Traditional Percentage Staking Plan setting. We could easily adjust this to 5. TSM would then only re-calculate the stakes every 5 bets instead of after every bet.
The final option is Ratchet Mode. This means that stakes can never decrease. When ever a new high is hit, that stake is used even if the cumulative total was to decrease.
