Goals are funny things; the power of setting goals, writing them down, and declaring them to the world is rather amazing. PickLogic highly encourages its members to write down their own goals as 2010 begins. Look at them regularly, and you'll be amazed at how they can affect your reality.

Take PickLogic, for example. At the beginning of 2009, we distinctly set a goal of a +30% year. It wasn't conservative or agressive; we felt it was something we should be able to hit given our past performance, but it would require our normal due diligence, discipline and focus.

So what happens? Come last December (the 22nd, to be exact), we're cruising right along, well above our 30% goal, right around +34% for the year. And then we have three losses in a row to finish the year...and the 4% loss gives us a 30.04% increase for 2009.

If you had a $10,000 account, your profit was $3,004 for the year: that's about as close as you can get to 30% on the year.

So this year, we're going to put a new goal out there: PickLogic accounts will gain 35% in 2010. This isn't a prediction, it's our goal. We expect to hit it, we'll post it around our offices, and our intention will make it a reality.

(We'll also set a goal of trying to make more blog posts this year!)

Once again, thanks for being a PickLogic member; here's to a great 2010 for us all!

Labels: 2010 NBA, goal setting, Picklogic

It seems like the NBA season has just started, but we're already nearly two full months into it. PickLogic's performance over the past 50 days has been pretty much what we expected: a 15-11 win-loss record, and - more importantly - a 6.98% positive increase.

But PickLogic's true effectiveness is always measured in the same way: by how well we avoid long losing streaks. (If you haven't noticed by now, the whole system is based on that specific element. Avoid long losing streaks, and the value of our clients' portfolios continues to move ahead steadily.)

How have we done through the first part of the NBA season? Two 3-game losing streaks, one 2-game losing streak...and that's it. (And we've thrown in two 5-game winning streaks, for good measure.)

(So...in other words...pretty good. Hence the nearly 7% gain in less than two months. And our 2009 goal was to be over 30%, and - at +33.4% so far and just 10 days to go - that looks like a safe bet as well!)

Accordingly, we want to thank you all for your continued patronage; especially our new members (PickLogic.com has gained more new members in the past two months than we had in the first 10 months of the year combined). Please don't hesitate to let us know what you like (or don't like) about PickLogic, and how/if we can improve it in any way. You might be surprised to see how quickly you get a response if you send it to support@picklogic.com; at least one of our Customer Service representatives is nearly always on call.

We'll wrap this post by giving you all of the picks that "qualify" for Monday's games; note that - as usual - only one made the grade as the official selection. (And that we expect to go 3-1 or 2-2 with these selections.)

Monday's Qualifying Picks:

- Milwaukee/Indiana, UNDER the total of 202.5
- Utah/Orlando, UNDER the total of 204
- Sacramento/Chicago, UNDER the total of 200.5
- LA Clippers/San Antonio, OVER the total of 193 (*this is the pick*)

Thanks again, and have a great holiday season and a happy new year.

Labels: 2009 NBA, basketball picks, NBA, over/under, Picklogic

This has been a very good month of November for PickLogic so far: for starters, PickLogic has seen record numbers in both paid subscribers and interested users going through their free trial. (PickLogic is up nearly 30% for the year; even the skeptics have to admit that it just works!)

After a baseball season that saw a nearly 19% increase in our clients' portfolios, we're quite pleased to have rewarded everyone's continued faith with a very nice start to the 2009-2010 basketball campaign.

Tonight, we won our 5th game in a row to put our early-season record at 6-3, returning a healthy 2.99% gain in the half-completed calendar month.

PickLogic generally shoots for a 2-4% gain each month, so we're right on target. Though we don't expect to win 5 in a row very often, just as we don't expect to lose 5 in a row - the PickLogic system is built specifically to avoid long streaks (though we've certainly seen longer winning streaks than losing streaks).

But as long as we can continue to avoid long periods of losing, we won't complain (and hopefully, you won't either).

As a parting note, PickLogic is about to make a pick for Wednesday, and we thought we'd show you the four selections that "qualified" for a pick (as we do from time to time)...of course, only one made the grade as the pick for the day:

- New York at Indiana, UNDER the total of 215
- LA Clippers at Memphis, UNDER the total of 200
- Houston at Minnesota, UNDER the total of 200
- Detroit at Portland, OVER the total of 178 (this is the pick!)

Typically, PickLogic will go 2-2 or 3-1 when we have four selections; it's doubtful that we'll go 0-4 or 4-0, or even 1-3. Feel free to play along at home!

Thanks again for making November such a great month for PickLogic; we'll do our best to continue to reward your loyalty!

PickLogic.com

Labels: basketball picks, Picklogic

Just figured we'd make a quick post...see if we can't jinx ourselves. The PickLogic selections are certainly doing quite well lately, having won 4 in a row, 7 of 8, and 13 of 17.

As a direct result, our clients are already up 10.6% in 2009 so far - quite possibly the best investment return you can find anywhere these days. Our 18.3% mark for the NBA season is also very solid.

At any rate, after just two picks through the first week of March (both winners), there are a number of games that qualify for Sunday, March 8. With the vast majority of all selections coming out accurately lately, we decided to "spread the wealth" just a bit (and let's see if that completely invalidates our recent run of success!).

With that said...here are the games that qualified for Sunday:

-- Utah at Toronto, UNDER 208.5 (this is the actual pick)
-- Phoenix at San Antonio, OVER 219.5
-- New York at New Jersey, UNDER 220
-- Denver at Sacramento, UNDER 212

We'll check back Sunday evening to see how we did (but as long as we win the first one, we'll be happy).

Labels: baseball picks, Picklogic, streaks, wins

PickLogic has made its last selection for 2008 (a win on the 30th as the Clippers-Kings game went UNDER the total of 191), and we wrap up the final two months of the year with up a healthy 7.69% -- +2.75% for November and +4.94% for December

Our win-loss record for the two months combined was 16-12 (6-6 and 10-6, respectively), but our focus is on the +7.69%: if you followed our money management recommendations, someone who was managing a "$10,000 account" (as we display on our general results page) had the following statistics:

• Actual money at risk, maximum: $847 (meaning that even if you had $10,000 in a sportsbook account, no more than $847 was ever at risk)


• Net profit: $769


• Effective net gain: $769/$847 = +90.8%

Now, we're not in any way advocating that PickLogic is going to return a 90%+ gain in two months. We highly recommend that if you're managing a $10,000 account, you actually have the majority of that money "in play" (deposited in a sportsbook), even if you're likely not going to need to touch it. The goal of PickLogic is to manage your risk to appropriate levels, keeping all wagers at a small % of the overall account.

But the numbers are impressive, nonetheless. And hopefully, not unusual -- we expect similar results for the rest of the NBA season (roughly 2-4% monthly gains).

So our last pick has been made for 2008; the first selection for next year will likely be on the 2nd or 3rd of January. Have a safe and happy New Year!

Labels: 2008, net gain, Picklogic, sports betting, sports picks