Long Odds

The fourth akT book. The one the other three warned you about.

Some people do get rich fast. Long Odds doesn't pretend otherwise, and it won't tell you not to try. It tells you the odds: which fast routes are genuine long shots, which are cons dressed up as shortcuts, and how they all compare with a job, a business and plain investing.

Inside:

• How odds actually work: expected value, survivorship and leverage, in plain English

• 11 yellow cards (long shots): the lottery, casino, Premium Bonds, sports and matched betting, bitcoin, altcoins and NFTs, CFDs and spread betting, options, prop-firm challenges, start-ups, penny shares and "passive income" side hustles

• 10 red cards (cons): Ponzi schemes, MLM, romance and pig-butchering scams, clone firms, deepfake adverts, pump-and-dumps, task scams, recovery scams and more

• How to spot a con in thirty seconds

• House rules if you try anyway, with a stake worksheet that totals itself

• What to do if you win, and what to do if you lose

33 pages · under an hour to read · PDF · figures checked October 2026

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