@Keegans-Bluff - let me know if you want me to come back on Tuesday :-)
I've just edited my response as you made a lot of the same points I was going to make!

@Martyn-B I've set a deposit limit a couple times, without going into details my current portfolio value is 21% my own deposits, this is a risk level I'm more than happy with.

In answer to the liquidity question, yes it makes it trickier and sometimes you have to miss out on a rise. It might be worth keeping a dividend / trading balance once you've hit your deposit limit. I don't do this at the moment as I usually have a good idea / plan of who I want to re-invest in.

You definitely want to be careful of 'IS'ing players to create liquidity, take a good look at margins, likelihood of being able to rebuy the player before any potential rise, etc etc. I've only ever seen one person make a complete hash of FI and that's because he kept jumping from player to player.

And if you've set a limit you want to be even more careful about breaking it, this is after all gambling and gambling is addictive! There will always be another player rising!

@NewUser115892 said in 1000th Post so I'm down The Well....:

my question would be..........."where do you see the index in 2 years time?" a legitimate threat to the big boys? pp, ladbrokes, b365, bfair etc......

I like this question but I often think / dream bigger, where will FI be when I'm thinking about retirement?? Imagine if it was still going strong and offering the same returns as it does today in say 30yrs. You wouldn't need to worry about some poxy pension fund making a few % a year :-)

I think FI is such a unique product that there is no reason why it can't go from strength to strength.

Apologies for the slight thread hijack but with all the annoying forum conversations in recent months I really appreciate what @Keegans-Bluff is trying to do by offering genuine advice.

Most successful trade - £863 on 150 Messi or 336% on Greenwood. I think I diluted my Vinicius shares too much because I remember having him at the equivalent of 26p (post split)

Worst trade - £90 on 650 Perisic or -76% on Sigurdsson (thankfully only 50) Managed to buy and sell at both the worst times :-)

First purchase 10 Mbappe at equivalent of 99p (post split)

@Joev Have to play the full 90 mate for a 25pt (Def) or 40pt (GK) bonus, I believe.

@Ericali Typo? 8 months for missing a test he was specifically told to stay for. Slight difference :-)

But generally barring any injuries etc. etc. I see his price climbing towards Euros and then dropping fairly heavily when Portugal go out. If I was playing with a small budget I'd look elsewhere for returns.

We or Football Index can't change a player's position. It's how OPTA classify them but plenty of examples of OPTA re-classifying a player's position,

It's actually a decent way of earning, a midfield re-classification to defender / striker often sees a decent increase. Of course the opposite true too.

@Stevo I'm sure I read that they have to be playing no football at all for a year before they'd be removed. I think it was on an Adam Cole Q&A or something similar.

We've seen player's IS price drop to 0 with retirement announcements & tragic deaths but plenty of examples of players not playing football in a qualifying league for over a year and not being removed so there's no way they could suddenly start doing that.

They would likely drop in value as they'd no longer be in a qualifying league for IPDs / PB but other than that nothing. The ''bet'' isn't lost or anything dramatic.

@NallyCat :-D Data straight from Football Index Scout? The 7 wins is a little misleading, back in the VERY early days of PB there were only 200 players who could win MB / PB, the crazy thing was that from that 200 only a few played outside the EPL and Bonucci's only competition was Donnarumma, there were days when only 1 player could win it (see Icardi's win record for example!)

But I'm only responding as he's on my pre-Euro list of players to buy and I haven't bought him yet :-(

Where's that regret 11 page.....

@Sol No mate, top 5 leagues (Spain / Italy / EPL / Ligue 1 / Bundesliga) , Europa league, Champions league and newly for this season European Championship Qualifiers (and most likely the tournament)

@Sol Do you mean Man U PB scores? As Carabao cup isn't eligible for PB or IPDs. Otherwise it looks up to date with Kroos star player