Betting Income: The Real Numbers
Jul 24, 2026 · 27 min · 8 segments
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Jul 24, 2026 · 27 min · 8 segments
The post Betting Income: The Real Numbers appeared first on FTS Income.
And I went right back through, did a search for the term maths and I found a blog article from 2008 that I posted.
where I said it is just maths.
And it is.
It is maths.
That's the part in betting that I think gets skipped most often.
Everything is basically mathematics.
I did mathematics, pure maths A-level.
I've got a reasonable understanding of it, not... not the best by any approach but when it comes down to betting you've got to understand the maths involved so that's where we're going to start if you want to earn 300 pounds per month for example from betting consistently the first question is not what system are you using it is what return on investment you could realistically sustain over a meaningful sample and what bank would be required to sustain and produce £300 a month at that ROI.
So if we use numbers that are realistic rather than optimistic, a documented sustainable ROI of 5% is a pretty good result for a systematic football better over time.
Some approaches will produce more.
A lot of approaches will produce less, but 5% is a reasonable working figure for a solid approach with a verified edge.
So at 5% ROI, to generate £300 per month in profit, if we just took a one month basis, we would need to turn over £6,000 per month in stakes.
£6,000 staked.
And then obviously you'd need to repeat that each month.
Obviously some months would be higher and lower, the ROI would move from month to month.
But if we just took it fixed, it would be £6,000 staked each month.
If you were staking say 1% of your bank per bet, which is a standard conservative approach for an active bank, that would require a working bank of around £3,000 to £4,000 depending on bet frequency.
I want to be really clear what that figure means.
It is the working bank, the capital dedicated to betting that you're prepared to have deployed in the market.
It's not a one-time stake.
It is the bank from which individual bets are sized and which absorbs your drawdown when it comes.
If your bank is £1,000 and your stakes are sized accordingly, the maths produces proportionally lower returns, roughly £100 per month at the same ROI and volume.
The figure scales with the bank and that is why compounding and scaling are important.
These should not be seen as pessimistic numbers.
They're not pessimistic numbers.
And I went right back through, did a search for the term maths and I found a blog article from 2008 that I posted.
where I said it is just maths.
And it is.
It is maths.
That's the part in betting that I think gets skipped most often.
Everything is basically mathematics.
I did mathematics, pure maths A-level.
I've got a reasonable understanding of it, not... not the best by any approach but when it comes down to betting you've got to understand the maths involved so that's where we're going to start if you want to earn 300 pounds per month for example from betting consistently the first question is not what system are you using it is what return on investment you could realistically sustain over a meaningful sample and what bank would be required to sustain and produce £300 a month at that ROI.
So if we use numbers that are realistic rather than optimistic, a documented sustainable ROI of 5% is a pretty good result for a systematic football better over time.
Some approaches will produce more.
A lot of approaches will produce less, but 5% is a reasonable working figure for a solid approach with a verified edge.
So at 5% ROI, to generate £300 per month in profit, if we just took a one month basis, we would need to turn over £6,000 per month in stakes.
£6,000 staked.
And then obviously you'd need to repeat that each month.
Obviously some months would be higher and lower, the ROI would move from month to month.
But if we just took it fixed, it would be £6,000 staked each month.
If you were staking say 1% of your bank per bet, which is a standard conservative approach for an active bank, that would require a working bank of around £3,000 to £4,000 depending on bet frequency.
I want to be really clear what that figure means.
It is the working bank, the capital dedicated to betting that you're prepared to have deployed in the market.
It's not a one-time stake.
It is the bank from which individual bets are sized and which absorbs your drawdown when it comes.
If your bank is £1,000 and your stakes are sized accordingly, the maths produces proportionally lower returns, roughly £100 per month at the same ROI and volume.
The figure scales with the bank and that is why compounding and scaling are important.
These should not be seen as pessimistic numbers.
They're not pessimistic numbers.
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