During the recent months almost all of us have been wondering how FI will get things back on track, not just in terms of growth but providing value to areas of the market that the removal of instant sell significantly devalued. We may not have initially realised it but enhanced IPD’s are the new deposit bonuses and it’s an absolute master stroke by FI. The promotion gives users enhanced returns for investing money into the market, stimulates the non-PB and money back holds and encourages a huge turnover in sells and buys through in game trading. Far more lucrative for FI then just dumping 10% cash into your account and far more exciting and potentially lucrative for users, win/win!

It’s for this exact reason that I sincerely doubt we will see traditional deposit bonuses return throughout the season, I believe it’s far more likely that we will see enhanced IPD’s return when the market needs stimulating or for major tournaments like Euro 2020.

The appeal of enhanced IPD’s should also be exceptional to attracting a wider range of gamblers/inventors, especially casuals. Imagine a traditional bet placing money on Manchester City or Liverpool to beat let say Aston Villa at 1/5. You win you get your stake back and 1/5th of that stake in winnings, you lose it’s all gone, simple as that. With the index during enhanced IPD’s you can now look at equivalent returns by lumping into a 50p player with the hope he scores a goal worth 10p of returns. Not only that but you’ve multiple attempts across a potential 30-day window, the chance of greater returns with goal/assist or clean sheet output and whatever level of success you intially have the option to hold that bet for a period of 3 years. I just see the upside as massive if the logic translates to a wider market.

Highlighting my own approach, I’ve invested about £1,200 into 1,300 shares, my logic is if each of those shares returns on average 10p in IDP’s I will have made just over 10% return (just like a deposit bonus). That’s also exclusive on any cap app or potential PB rewards.

FI can’t offer enhanced IPD’s on a regular, its 100% a loss leader promotion for them but is also 100% a better mechanism to bring excitement and confidence to the market then a deposit bonus. In this current promotion and with a new PB structure that’s a long way from reaching it value, for me, there has never been a better time to be active and trading on here, and I’m someone that made their first real investment on this platform around the last share split.

Happy trading all!

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.

Saw this on twitter, I know others have stated what's needed but does boggle the mind how this first phase of OB's has been rolled out.

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 think they are tightening it in anticipation of dropping the 1p restriction on offers sometime this week.

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.

Have you tried the 'mid price' setting under portfolio preferences? Represents the valuation between buy and instant sell price.

@Benzemabob at this moment in time I would if;

• I couldn't convince myself of his price recovering.
• I had seen an opportunity to use funds elsewhere.

I assuming you bought Trent at £9 odd which means your currently sitting at a paper loss of between 15% to 20%. You can put your faith in Trent getting back to his best over the next month or you can sell up to play a busy market where a 15 to 20% trade is very achievable in a short space of time.

Good luck.

While the obvious PB and MB targets are getting some decent rises there's still a whole bunch of very promising players whom have yet to rise from quite substantial drops.

Two that are easy to highlight.

These aren't bad players and in a more confident market they will settle somewhere between peak price over the last year and current buy price.

What's been shown over the last 24 hours is players in vogue can rise very quickly. So what other players off trend could see rises in the next few weeks?

@Gazz127 I suspect depth of offers, wouldn't surprise me if people are offering players high taking advantage of market sentiment and thus pushing up the buy price.

@howsthebacon people's buys can't be proved or disproved till at least the next game weekend, I really don't see much sell off between now and then. On top of that you'll have people that need to keep thier money in the market for phase one of the bonus.

I'd say slow growth leading up till phase 2 then if FI throw NASDAQ update fuel on the fire it could take off quite nicely.

A dip will come of course but for the short term I can only see upwards movement, market seems bullish.

Rabiot - he's one to watch for sure. Red card recently didn't help but he's still only 25 and part of the French team.

@Webbinho agreed, people are starting to make buying decisions now based on if they think the price is value Vs what the rest of the market is / was willing to pay.

Not one to overhype but I think the good PB players whom were flat and with silly spreads are going to rise quite well in the next 2 weeks, sentiment is changing for sure.

Two players whom are PB ready.

Canales at Betis.
Hoffman at Gladbach.

Both posting very good scores and I'd be extremely surprised if they both don't win some PB this season.

Still red on the app, hopefully an android update soon.

@Ddr nice, hopefully ends up being their 'Mainz' man.