FUT14 How to Make Millions on FUT14 This guide will help and aid you to reach your full trading potential with FIFA 14 Ultimate Team. Not only will coins help you build the perfect squad but you can make a profit out of this yourself. Adam Woodage FIFA 14 UT FUT14 1 How to Make Millions on FUT14 Table of Contents Preparation and Organisation: ....................................................................... 2 Why I Started This… ....................................................................................... 3 The Scheme Itself........................................................................................... 4 Players: .......................................................................................................... 5 Contracts: ...................................................................................................... 6 Chemistry: ..................................................................................................... 7 Packs: ............................................................................................................ 8 Real Situation Examples… .............................................................................. 9 Rebalancing ................................................................................................. 10 Information: If you are interested in more information regarding the add-on email services, or anything else for that matter, please email fut14aw@gmail.com and they will be more than happy to assist. We have also set up our own Facebook page: FUT14AW. Drop by and give us a like for all the latest news! 2 How to Make Millions on FUT14 Preparation and Organisation: I’m sure you will have all heard that the key to success is preparation; you couldn’t be more right when it comes to FUT14. This page should not only be read as an insight as to how the guide will pan out, but you should also refer to it regularly as it will show you how to setup your trading course. Firstly, accounts. I suggest that, if you’re using all 4 methods, you have 5 accounts at the very least: one for each method then a main one that you transfer all your money to and from as well as the account you use to play matches. What you must be careful about, however, is that EA charge 5% on each transaction in the market. This is not too dissimilar from a dealer’s charge, except it is not a fixed price. There are many guides online as to how you setup accounts on each different platform. My second area is databases. In order to succeed when it comes to FIFA, you need to utilise databases. These are your reference to link to every piece of information about every player from their skill rating to customer’s reviews all in one place. These are especially important when working with players and packs as they allow you to quickly evaluate whether or not a player is worth purchasing. Another aspect you need to accommodate for is buying times. You must remember that buying players between 16:00 – 20:00 GMT is ludicrous. This is when you want to be selling anything from players to contracts. You must make sure you buy during the hours in which there are considerably less people playing the game as this should dramatically increase your financial efficiency. My final area is more to do with planning. You, ideally, need to set aside around 30 minutes to an hour a day that you spend solely on trading. This should be kept as disciplined as you can reasonably keep it so you get into a pattern of almost buy one time sell the other. By all means, trade more often, but make sure you have at least a 30 minute slot that you keep consistent every day. By trading, I don’t mean search the market, have a game then have another little look around. I mean use the web app and try to seriously make some money, spend the rest of your time playing matches and showing off your team once you’ve earned it! 3 How to Make Millions on FUT14 Why I Started This… I have been playing FUT since 2010 and have spent countless hours trying to come up with a technique that will return big profits time and time again; I found it earlier this year. Midway through FIFA 13, I spent hours looking around various internet forums and sites and eventually found an answer. This, alongside my previous experience in the stock market and economics, means that I have developed what I believe to be a big profiting and virtually fool proof scheme. This isn’t some ‘method’ that an internet junkie has come up with to show amateurs how to make a 10% return, this is aimed at making serious returns on your money. We boast multiple strategies that, when combined together, provide the almost perfect scheme on bringing you home massive profits. What you do with this is up to you but the opportunities are endless: You can build your ‘dream team’; Sell your coins online or even just show off to your friends and colleagues. It involves strategies used time and time again on the Stock Market by professionals who have been in the sector for over 20 years alongside my experience of how the FUT market develops, inflates and crashes year upon year. The beauty of FUT is that year upon year it is similar, yet not exact. It’s common knowledge that, among avid FIFA players, the value of money increases throughout the year, a term otherwise known in the financial sector as ‘deflation’. This means that whilst Dembele may put you around 5,000 coins out of pocket at the start of the game, the price is likely to be down to 1,000 or even less by May. This year’s new twist is likely to be the dramatically enhanced Chemistry Styles. We hope you enjoy our FIFA 14 guide that can be applied to Xbox, PS and PC – just don’t forget to revalue prices to accommodate! Yours in FIFA, Adam Woodage 4 How to Make Millions on FUT14 The Scheme Itself This scheme is a well-known investment plan amongst investors but I plan to bring it to you, the valued customers of FIFA 14. There are two sides to this, the side included in the guide and another, richly enhanced by the use of an additional email service for a small additional fee. In order to fully exploit the guide, the use of the email service would be very helpful and is almost imperative if you really want to become a successful trader. I would like to note that there is no possible way I could give you the information you needed in this guide as it changes week on week. I will tell you, however, both why this method works and how to execute it – that just leaves the weekly changing price range. So the other side of the equation solely involves exploiting certain areas of the market from players to consumables. It is common knowledge – and obvious if you know anything about FIFA – that players are the most important part to the game; this doesn’t make them the only part of the game. This is an almost replication of the stock market: shares act as players whilst consumables are commodities (silver or gold, for example). My experience of the market is that you need a vast supply of all to keep up with the pace of the game. What this guide doesn’t recommend is just buying the different areas. The methods in the following pages will explain exactly how to trade and turn in a profit. Before you start, you need to set aside a certain amount for trading. Below is a full on interpretation of how you should spread your money. I’ll later explain how to invest in each area, why it works and how to put it into the real game. FIFA 14 UT General Proportions Packs 10% Players Contracts Chemistry 20% Chemistry Packs Contracts 20% Players 50% 5 How to Make Millions on FUT14 Players: Firstly, the players are split up into 4 categories: BPL players, Liga BBVA players, Serie A players and Bundesliga players. The below diagram explains how they should be spread. League Proportions BPL Liga BBVA Serie A Bundesliga 15% 15% 50% 20% From here, you need to know how to trade. The method is virtually identical for each market; you just need to know in what proportions. This is the one part of the guide for which the email add-on is near essential I strongly suggest you invest in the emails as for a one off fee of £5, you get a weekly email throughout FIFA 14. Don’t forget that you can sell your coins at around £15 per 100k and using this method you should be making millions. That’s at least a 700% return – impressive if I may say so myself! Anyway, it will be after reading this that you truly decide whether to add the email option for yourself. Back to the guide, we will profit off exploiting a huge market inefficiency regarding the purchase of everyday, mainstream buyers. Every aspect of FIFA is buy low sell high, that’s what makes a profit. This, however, utilises some useful trading tools to find that medium that turns over profit time and time again. The method involves – using the ranges supplied by email – to bid on players in the specified league. The list will be generated each week and take into account players recent performance, added chemistry bonuses and other factors that may be relevant. The method acts as the ‘middle man’ between those who want to get players quickly and thus ‘buy it now’ and those that are willing to risk the potential loss incurred from a low bid in the hope of receiving a big sum from someone going over the top. If you are still stuck on how much you must spend in each league, see the example on page 10. 6 How to Make Millions on FUT14 Contracts: This is a safer addition to your FIFA funds and should also turn around a nice profit – especially at the start of the game. At the start of the game, the price of contracts is severely undervalued as absolutely no-one needs contracts, no-one can play matches! This means that as soon as the game comes out, prices of contracts double or even triple as soon as the game comes out. Whilst this is a method that is very effective at the start of the game, it continues throughout the game, virtually day upon day. Firstly, at present – before the game comes out – I suggest buying as many contracts as you can for 200 BIN and even 150 bidding if possible. From here you hold your contracts in your consumables until the game comes out. Wait until the price rises to what you believe could be its peak – I’m betting for Saturday night. 02071096490 From then onwards, you want to think about the time in which contracts will be at their lowest. This is when the supply overrides the demand. I think the best time to do this is during happy hour. Buy as many contracts as you can during happy hour and sell them, again, the following Saturday night – where there is more demand than supply as people waste contracts playing matches. The basics behind this are that during happy hour, many people buy packs; when this happens, they offload the contracts for a minimum and quick sale. A simple mistake that many make is to still use this method when the happy hour is all players. Do not do this as, for obvious reasons: no-one will be offloading contracts. The most lucrative time to do this is when team of the year is released. The contracts are the easiest way to stay ahead of the market and avoid the immense crash that always happens during that time of the year. Contracts should in no way be affected by the player’s market meaning whilst everyone else loses potentially 100s of thousands during the crash, you can leave unscathed. If you follow other parts of the method, you’ll actually find yourself turning around a big profit. There are two main rules to stay safe, follow them and it can’t go wrong: Only ever buy at 150 or 200 Never sell at 200. 250 at the least. 7 How to Make Millions on FUT14 Chemistry: We’re yet to see how this new chemistry style will affect the game. What we are sure of, however, is that we will be one of the first to capitalise on it. What can already be established is that there are going to be some trademark chemistry styles that are going to be more effective – and expensive – than others. These are likely to be those such as the ‘finisher’ which adds a variety of shooting and speed attributes to your player and ‘huntsman’ that does much the same. How to make a profit on this? There are many ways. Firstly, what you must look out for is any player with chemistry listed at the same, or very similar, price to the basic version of the card. At least for the time being, this ensures that you won’t make a big loss yet you still stand the good chance of picking up a big profit. Seen as we’re not completely sure of the total repercussions of the chemistry yet, you should stay in touch and I’ll update you as soon as I, myself, get a better grasp of the concept. As for the time being, continue to just search for players with different chemistry at similar prices. If you’re feeling adventurous, you could employ the same tactic as per the tactics, minus the part before the game comes out. For example, buy the chemistry cards of whatever appears popular during happy hours and sell them during peak times for a large profit. Finisher FIN +3 SHO +3 HEA Anchor ANC +2 PAC +2 DEF +2 HEA Engine ENG +2 PAC +2 PAS +2 DRI Artist (?) ART +3 PAS +3 DRI Hunter (?) HUN +3 PAC +3 SHO Marksman (?) MRK +2 SHO +2 DRI +2 HEA Powerhouse PWR +3 PAS +3 DEF Guardian GRD +3 DRI +3 DEF Shadow SHA +3 PAC +3 DEF Sentry (?) SEN +3 DEF +3 HEA ? BAC +2 PAS +2 DEF +2 HEA Sniper SNI +3 SHO +3 DRI Architect (?) ARC +3 PAS +3 HEA ? EYE ? GK Chemistry Style Shield (?) SLD +2 KIC +2 REF +2 SPD Wall (?) WAL +2 DIV +2 HAN +2 KIC The ‘?’ indicates that I am not yet aware of the exact specifications. I’m sure futhead.com will have a copy nearer the release date that you can use for personal reference. 8 How to Make Millions on FUT14 Packs: The final part to the plan is packs. You may have thought of packs in the past as a complete gamble. What you’re about to read changes that. One of my favourite tactics is to exploit the use of bronze packs. You may be aware of the fact that even bronze contracts sell on market if put up for 150/200. This makes it worthwhile to buy bronze packs for 400 and sell on the cards worth something. There are many consumables and players worth selling: Those in the English Leagues Players with 80+ pace Contracts Fitness Cards Significant Bronze Players The last option will come as time goes on but there are some ways to enhance and aid your skills. As you may know, there are a couple of database sites that list the price, name, attributes and practically all the features about all UT cards. I strongly suggest that you use one of these if you find a rare player that appears valuable. The two sites that I prefer are ‘ultimatedb.nl’ and ‘futhead.com’. 9 How to Make Millions on FUT14 Real Situation Examples… We realise that no matter how simple we make the guide, our perception and way of understanding will differentiate from yours. Hence the reason we have put together this real life example of the investment plan. We will take 3 different traders, each with a different amount of money and circumstances and then show you what they should do in that particular situation. You can then put yourself into this situation and use it stimulate your own trading. It is important to note that we recommend you have a separate account for each trading method. If unsure on how to create multiple accounts, visit the information provided earlier in the guide. Example 1: John has 100,000 coins. He has decided that he wants to invest 80,000 into money making and keep the other 20,000 to enhance his team. He also decides to follow the guide fully. Firstly, he needs to split his money: 50% needs to go to players (40,000) 20% needs to go to Chemistry Cards (16,000) 20% needs to go to Contracts (16,000) And 10% needs to go to packs (8,000) Once this has been completed, John can start trading right away. He knows that he has 40,000 coins to spend on players so splits this using the Pie Chart on the relevant page. Example 2: Example 2 follows much the same pattern in that Chris also has 100,000. The difference is that he has decided that Chemistry Cards aren’t worth the hassle. He has also come to the conclusion that he feels the packs are too risky. This means he has 75,000 – he wants to keep 25,000 for his team – to spend between players and Contracts. As 50% is about double 20%, he decides t have twice as much money in players as in contracts. This is how he is left: 66.666’% needs to go to players (50,000) And 33.333’% needs to go to Contracts (25,000) Chris has done this and begins to trade. He, like John, uses the player pie chart to work out his proportions for each market. 10 How to Make Millions on FUT14 Rebalancing The part that some will argue stands out with this method is the rebalancing factor. For those of you that are not stock market savvy, the act of rebalancing s usually used in diversified portfolios; we’re replicating this in FIFA 14. If you have followed our earlier information, you should have at least 4 separate accounts set up, one for each major method. On each you should have a certain proportion of your money. Rebalancing effectively involves counting up how much money you have over a certain – regular – amount of time and then spreading the money back across the different categories evenly. So boosting the areas that aren’t doing well with the money generate from those that are. The advantage of this is that you are prepared for every market situation and, in FIFA, it has a little more to it. Because in FIFA you can also accumulate coins from playing matches, by the time you’re ready to rebalance, you should have an extra pot of money coming in. This means that you get a chance to collect your thoughts and decided whether you want to finally build your dream team or whether you want to keep on trading and build your stash even higher. The most important thing about rebalancing is discipline. If you don’t keep control of yourself, you could find that you give into temptation and decide to up your contracts, for example, to 40% and then make nowhere near the profits you should be when the market crashes and you don’t have enough money in with players to take full use of it. I would suggest that you rebalance your methods around once a fortnight. FIFA is a rapidly changing game and players can see their prices fly left, right and centre just overnight. Despite what was said in the previous paragraph, you do need an opportunity to fully reconsider the proportions per market. I would suggest doing this around once every month at most. It is imperative, however, that you decide what you’re going to do and stick to that trend, again keeping discipline. When you reach the point of tampering with proportions, you need to play it safe. You never want to make drastic changes as nobody can predict what’s right around the corner; it’s impossible. The key is to just make very small, considered changes so you know exactly what you’re doing and also that it can’t have too much of a negative effect on your returns. 11 How to Make Millions on FUT14