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The Silver Circle started off as an offshoot of J Armstrong's Golden Circle - a group of select bookmakers and high-rolling individuals for whom Mr Armstrong personally prepares pre-match analysis reports and handicapping services.

Experience: Although formed only in Feb 2003, the Silver Circle is based on the knowledge and skill-set of J Armstrong's more than 20 years' professional betting experience. Since 2005, Armstrong has also recruited top research and statistician assistants to help cover more ground in their research projects. Early in 2007, the new Silver Circle team, headed by Armstrong, unveiled a new method of analysis incorporating Variant Factor Analyses and an exhaustive database of team statistics for 216 European and South American football teams.

Performance: The Silver Circle continually wins awards for outstanding performance with its long-term strike rate of more than 70% and ROI that is consistent and high enough (monthly average 13.2%) to put most other investment vehicles to shame. While there have been the odd losing streak (longest 8 losses in a row), winning streaks far outnumber losing with an amazing 21 WINS in a row achieved in 2005.

Coverage: Most major European leagues are covered. Picks are mostly from the EPL, Serie A, La Liga, Bundesliga with the Dutch Eredivisie, Greek, French, MLS and other leagues occassionally tipped as well. Naturally, the Silver Circle also tips the Champions League, World Cup, European Cup, UEFA Cup, FA and Carling Cups and more when they occur.

Methods of Analysis: In general terms, each match is treated as a unique event although certain team attributes are based on quantifiable indicators across all matches. The same factors affect different matches in different ways and in varying degrees and this is computed through complex algorithms using Variant Factor Analyses before being checked against the real world experience of J Armstrong.

Matches are watched studiously and information from a wide network of inside and related sources, collated to achieve the best-informed decisions. Such information include team news, current form, morale and confidence levels, team chemistry, probable approach, formations and tactical battles, motivational and other psychological factors.

Reason for Success: While fly-by-night operators might be able to achieve short-term success before they close shop and are never heard from again, the Silver Circle's long-term success is a result of the ability to remain objective, to make head and tail of information available and in having a deep rooted grasp of the teams' and leagues' history, culture and other traits which defines who they are.

J Armstrong's familiarity with how bookmakers arrive at the odds and handicaps they put to market is a distinct advantage in sussing out exploitable opportunities left by by gaps between bookmaker projections and public perceptions.

We are the winning team no matter what the score.
 

About J Armstrong

J. Armstrong was an oil-broker before he started betting on football and other sports professionally. His success in this field led to his services being sought by bookmakers in Macau and the British Virgin Islands in the early 90's. During this period, he formed the Golden Circle, made up of a group of high-rolling individual football-bettors and bookmakers, who received his personally prepared dossiers on his research and predictions on football match outcomes.

Armstrong won the grand prize in a competition organized by Sports Forecaster for football-bettors where he picked 19 winning bets out of 19 matches in Oct 2002. Following this win, word leaked that he was the key man behind a tightly-knitted group of influential bettors making killings in the football-betting market. The publicity surrounding this put pressure on members of the Golden Circle, where many preferred to stay anonymous and the group was broken up subsequently.

At the same time, Armstrong was inundated by requests from people from all over the world to get his picks, one of them being Gregory Lee, who encouraged him to write a book about football-betting and share his picks with the public instead. The Guide to Winning Football Bets was released in 2003 shortly after the launch of The Silver Circle.

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