IndexGain are posting fairly regular “live” updates to team of the month. As requested elsewhere, I’ll share them here for people that may not have IndexGain or Twitter accounts.
Huge caveat that I’m not a data guy and am only posting the good work of IndexGain, so please don’t hold it against me if the data is missing or inaccurate! 😀
As at 12th July
No. The product is continually evolving and improving for the better. Every significant change they have introduced over the last 3 years ( PB, IPD, Matching Engine) has improved the platform and increased its appeal.
If the rules had been fixed as they were 3 years ago as some posters seem to pushing for, I guarantee there wouldn’t be anything like the sums invested that there are today.
Every few months we have a bit of a dip or a stagnant market on FI. Every few months, as regular as clockwork, posts start appearing on the forum and on Twitter along the lines of “market is tanking!”, “panic!”, “the arse has fallen out of FI!”.
Can I just say the last week or so has been a refreshing change, with excellent pragmatism and positivity from almost everyone. I’ve even seen posts on Twitter of all places where people are saying “holding through this” or “buy the dip”.
All markets go in cycles, there are always down days before the up ones. FI is working exactly as a proper financial market should.
I genuinely hope this is the FI community growing up and not just a flash in the pan!
This is a big deal! I work with a lot of tech start-ups and entrepreneurs, and even getting on the list is a big badge of honour. FI coming second is a huge achievement. Adds massive credibility to the platform.
https://www.fasttrack.co.uk/league-tables/tech-track-100/league-table/
Two days into the season and we’ve seen Salah, Van Dijk, Sterling and Kane all win dividends.
For all the new members who joined in the summer and had some fun with transfer speculation and youth prospects... now we see what FI is really all about.
Good players win dividends and make for a good investment. Simple as that!
As we have a lot of new members, thought it might be worth pointing a little known rule about PB day categorisation (well, it took me about 6 months to realise it anyway).
Every round of European games from the QF onwards in both the Europa and the Champions League is categorised as a GOLD day, even though there will be just one or two matches taking place that day. With the new dividend payouts that means you have a much higher chance than normal of taking home the whopper 8p + 8p dividends.
I’m already loading up on European PB players who I expect to progress in the two competitions. I expect the money to start heading in that direction soon as others follow suit.
The dates of the Gold days will be as follows:
7, 8, 9 April - QF 1st legs (2 matches per day)
14, 15, 16 April - QF 2nd legs (2 matches per day)
28, 29, 30 April - SF 1st leg (1 match per day)
5, 6, 7 May - SF 2nd leg (1 match per day)
27 May - Europa final (1 match)
30 May - CL Final (1 match)
One word of warning, the downside of this structure is that you can see big drops when teams get unexpectedly knocked out. This is especially true of the last 16 as the losing teams have no shot at the monster gold days.
Very strange behaviour to mock others for potentially losing out financially on the Index. Not needed on the forum to be honest.
I’ve seen a few people to ask how to calculate an actual, annualised rate of return if they have made multiple deposits and/or withdrawals over a period of time.
It’s actually really simple using the XIRR function on Excel. An IRR (Internal Rate of Return) calculates an annual return using a series of dates and values so is a great indicator of what your portfolio is really generating.
Hopefully the picture below is fairly self explanatory, but the key things to remember are:
In this example you can see the investor has deposited £4,000 and his portfolio is currently valued at £5700 plus £30 in cash. A simple ROI calculation would suggest a profit of 43% however that doesn’t take into account the fact that
A) The money has been drip fed in over a period of time
B) He’s been investing for a less than a year
The IRR calculation works out an annualised return of 156% - which is the more accurate figure to use if you’re going to start comparing returns with other savings and investments!
I’ve no idea if I’ve explained that well - shout if you have any questions.
It’s against FI’s responsible gambling policies, so if anyone does they should think carefully before answering that one honestly on a public forum!
@ScouseSte said in Pb debacle:
I actually think talking about Footstock is FINE mate. We need to be aware of what our biggest rival is up to. The Whoscored deal is a massive coup. That's gonna propel FS into the mainstream fairly quickly! Compare that to Fi's initial segments on Talksport 🙈. It was so amateurish and probably confused the hell out of anyone considering joining!
The WhoScored deal is exactly the same one FI had in 2018 mate. If you do a quick google search you can still find all the sponsored content that WhoScored published about the index. FI outgrew that deal pretty quickly and moved on to sponsoring an actual football team 😀
Monday 21st September - Bronze Day
TOP GK - Emiliano Martinez (1p)
TOP DEF - Ezri Konsa (4p)
TOP MID & STAR - Kevin De Bruyne (8p)
TOP FWD - Zlatan Ibrahimovic (4p)
MEDIA - Jadon Sancho (5p)
FOOTIE - 337 (up 2.02)
Sunday 20th September - Gold Day
TOP GK - Alisson (3p)
TOP DEF - Stefan Mitrovic (14p)
TOP MID - Angel Di Maria (14p)
TOP FWD & STAR - Son Heung-Min (28p)
MEDIA - Sadio Mane (5p)
FOOTIE - 335 (up 1.44)
Saturday 19th September - Gold Day
TOP GK - David Soria (3p)
TOP DEF - Michael Keane (14p)
TOP MID - Gael Kakuta (14p)
TOP FWD & STAR - Andrej Kramaric (28p)
MEDIA - Gareth Bale (5p)
FOOTIE - 336 (up 3.32)
Friday 18th September - Bronze Day
TOP GK - Anthony Lopes (1p)
TOP DEF - Niklas Sule (4p)
TOP MID - Joshua Kimmich (4p)
TOP FWD & STAR - Serge Gnabry (8p)
MEDIA - Gareth Bale (5p)
FOOTIE - 333 (up 0.56)
Thursday 17th September - Bronze Day
TOP GK - Steve Mandanda (1p)
TOP DEF & STAR - Wesley Fofana (8p)
TOP MID - Adil Aouchiche (4p)
TOP FWD - Denis Bouanga (4p)
MEDIA - Gareth Bale (5p)
FOOTIE - 332 (up 13.4)
I’m giving up on screenshots now, unless anyone knows how to fix the “parsing” error that comes up when I try to add a photo?
I think I’m right in saying OG never gets an assist from Opta
If they are going to do a trading bonus, they should base it on net deposits since offers went live last Thursday. Reward the people that have carried on buying in turbulent times, and incentivise those who have sold up to put their funds back in (and more!)
Wednesday 16th September - Bronze Day
TOP GK - Keylor Navas (1p)
TOP DEF - Marquinhos (4p)
TOP MID & STAR - Julian Draxler (8p)
TOP FWD - Mauro Icardi (4p)
MEDIA - Gareth Bale (5p)
FOOTIE - 319 (down 17.21)
Tuesday 15th September - Bronze Day
TOP GK - Dimitry Bertaud (1p)
TOP DEF - Marcelo Guedes (4p)
TOP MID & STAR - Teji Savanier (8p)
TOP FWD - Memphis Depay (4p)
MEDIA - Gareth Bale (5p)
FOOTIE - 336 (down 4.4)
