If I take a monthly view of mid August till now;
Lukaku was £1.50 now £1.92
Barella was £1.01 now £1.13
Pulisic was £2.67 now £2.33
Havertz was £3.65 now £3.82
Jesus was £2.54 now £2.53
I get if you bought higher value players in last couple of weeks you will have had your fingers burned but if we're going to talk about drops let put them in context with the relevantly recent rises.
My first sizeable deposit in the football index was early 2019, however, I remember hearing about the product sometime ago and decided to test the waters with a small amount. I initially deposited £10 in April 2016 but didn't follow it up with any further investment as I couldn't see the appeal of the index at the time and things seemed very basic back then. (Big mistake of course!)
So what world superstar did I buy in April 2016? Messi? Ronaldo? Ibrahimovic? Not a chance! there was only one player whom I knew would go onto be king of the index and turn my £10 into £100!
And 36 months later here's what I sold him for.
So for anyone wishing they had invested years ago to have accumulated thier riches this might make you feel better! 😜
*Pictures the wrong way around.
Think I'll be the only one hoping Cornelius holds on to top forward and star man and the GOAT doesn't do what he normally does! Picked up a 100 Cornelius on ME for 35p last week so will be a nice return either way.
I'm sure in a years time we will remember this initial phase of ME fondly. "Hey, remember when you could buy half the market at a 20% discount or greater? Those were the days"...
@Geronimo159387 people aren't going to take 2p of IPD's for a player they can't trade out of over the next few weeks, Bundesliga has almost finished.
I think the other major positive is we've all wondered at some stage in the back of our minds what would happen if the market suddenly tanked. Now we know and have gone (still going!) through it I think that's a major boost to peoples confidence in having monies tied up here.
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Good response in my opinion, gives me faith in a few holds moving forward.
When someone asks for advice on a player dropping and the answer 'good time to top up' comes back without any balance as to why it might not be a good time to 'top up'.
Mindful yes, fearful no. I don't think you can put your money in here and see ground floor bitcoin like growth, your £19k isn't going to turn into £200k in a few years.
I do believe however the product is well positioned to return 20%+ on your monies each year and have faith FI is a good long term bet.
Pogba 10@£7.00, 10@£6.70 and 9 at £6.45.
I initially thought the first 10 were a steal!
I'd say the other impact is a few would have banked out jorginho going to Juve for the Sarri link up.
Not a whole lot of new info as you say but alot of folks have been asking for more regular Comms so i'd imagine it's been released with this in mind. A monthly update like this would be quite welcome as just provides some reassurance of the long term progress and that what we are all expecting to happen with the platform is.
While I know not everyone is in favour of enhanced analystics I do think this will be a big part of attracting new money if the aim is to move from the perception of a 'quirky bookmaker' to a trading platform underpinned by dividends.
From a display persprctive I think FI are missing a trick in that the increase and decreases are based of market price, however, I'd have the option of a filter that lets you swap to a view on the increase and decrease of Instant sell price over a 24 hour period. This would be great for the day traders to show how much volitilty and liquidity exists between the spreads.
Ospina, Rui and Pique for me. Not to bothered about whom progresses from Barca or Napoli as I've picked up all three via ME on the cheap and all IPD eligible. There will be future opportunities to sell any of those three next season, just a bit of patience required.
Strangely I've got no Bayern or Chelsea players, not sure how that happened! Should be able to pick up decent prices via ME from whichever teams are eliminated tonight.
Kicking myself for not picking up some Palacios when you could get a bite on ME for just over £1 a few weeks back.
Could be a real PB contender for Leverkusen if gets regular game time.
Just Jota and Aranguiz for me, both are capable of good PB scores on their day. Although I don't hold think Tah is the choice for top defender today.
Bit poor this not being updated in 7 days ;)
I have a bid in for 200 Mohamed Fares at 27p which is 2p above the displayed price. Good chance for any holders to offload and refresh shares.
Right approach would be to sell Rashford at £7.11 (or a better IS when available) and then try and buy back at 10p to 15p lower to cover the commission then enjoy the 30 days of IPD's. Any other way you lose money or break even.
Remember that the actual IS price might be higher than the IS displayed, especially if selling in low quantities.
@trig that's how I would view it. I bought Lovren at 35p pre annoument of ME and managed to sell via ME at 18p a few days ago. I took a loss but I also acknowledged I took a gamble (as I do with every player purchased) and actually view the 18p as a lucky escape.
Instant sold 300 Dejan Lovern for 18p last weekend when heard about the transfer. (When first bought thought he might get a PB league move). If he finishes top today will be interesting to see what his IS is tomorrow after the dividend payout.