Low hold, and clearing a rollover without bleeding
The cheapest two-way markets on the board — how to churn turnover for the least money.
Updated October 23, 2026 · TrueEdge Academy
A low-hold pair is an arbitrage that does not quite get there: the two best prices add up to a bit over 100% instead of under it. You lose a small, known amount — often under 1% — and in exchange you have put real turnover through an account. The free hold calculator shows that cost for any pair of prices before you bet.
Why you would want that
Deposit bonuses and promotions almost always carry a rollover: wager some multiple of the bonus before it becomes withdrawable. Doing that on ordinary −110 markets costs about 4.5% of everything you wager (a 4.76% hold). Doing it on 0.5% low-hold pairs costs a tenth of that. On a $5,000 rollover, that is the difference between about $227 and $25.
- On standard −110 markets
- 4.76% hold → 4.55% of the $5,000 → about $227 lost
- On 0.5% low-hold pairs
- 0.5% hold → about $25 lost
- Difference
- about $202, for choosing different markets
It is also a diagnostic
A market with an unusually low hold is one the books are competing hard on, which usually means it is a market they are confident about. Persistently wide hold is the opposite signal.