I joined the platform in May 2018 in the first 6 months I invested £20,000 and turned this into £40,000 I then withdrew my initial stake of £20,000 not to de-risk but because I was unhappy with the direction of the platform (IPD's). Thankfully I was wrong and the management of FI were correct. The platform continued to thrive and I am well on the way to doubling the £20,000 I left in.

I would not say I am cleverer or have any special methods that other traders do not have, I have simply benefited from the growth of a brand new product that is disrupting the existing gambling market. Many other traders will have similar or better returns and will admit that the main driver of there profits is simply the product growing.

Now when Football Index raised funds to develop there product they would have had short,medium and long term objectives and I would imagine all the changes in the platform were part of an original business plan. As they have continued to raise funds and develop the product these changes will be part of a financial plan that was designed a long time ago and is needed to move the product to a profitable sustainable entity.

As each change has come there has always been disgruntled voices on the forum but if you took your bat and ball home at those points you would have missed out on substantial gains and would now be regretting the knee jerk reaction. I personally regret taking the £20,000 out as I would now have nearly £80,000 instead of £60,000!!

The gains we have made have been extraordinary and deep down each of us here for any length of time must be laughing at the fact we stumbled on to this as most will have normally been losing money to the bookies. We now have sums of money that if not life changing that can make our lives substantially better.

However gains and growth like that cannot continue forever and we must understand that the product owners are not here to just gift us money for so little risk. I have posted elsewhere that you must be an idiot if you thought you could continue to make bets where the bookie allows you to keep all the profits but underwrites 95% of your capital by providing the majority of your money back even if your bet is completely useless.

I personally think covid has accelerated the situation and without it we would have seen the introduction of full order books for the start of the 2020/2021 season with plenty of warning. However the suspension of instant sell was needed to protect our portfolios, if they had brought it back at any point the result would have been carnage with so many traders cashing in at instant sell prices, therefore the next best thing was to introduce buy orders as they have provided some liquidity.

Unfortunately without sell orders liquidity will be limited and poor and even when they arrive it will not be the supreme comfort blanket that we have had in the past. I can accept this as I have profited greatly from the platform and if you were to look back at my posts over the last year have been suggesting that order books will move the platform to a more modern transparent future but with more risk and lower profits as in effect FI have been feeding our pockets with cash to get the product to a certain critical mass to move to the next phase of there development.

Now I know there are several vocal disgruntled forum members and I understand you feel let down and are currently financially disadvantaged (I felt the same a while ago). Mostly you all feel that the removal of an instant sell price has changed your bets and yes it has. However we were all playing a rigged game, we put thousands in that could easily double as the house paid us all the gains but we were in effect only gambling with a few hundred quid as we could instant sell and get it nearly all back. When you look at it like that it was not sustainable and maybe you should now be buying premium bonds.

Therefore for those lucky to have been here for a while maybe you should be thanking FI for the free money and accept that the cushy easy days are slowly going and now we all may need to work a little harder for our money. Profits will still be easy to come by but we will now have to accept that for every 10 big winners we may have a few substantial losers.

I am truly sorry for those who cannot sell low/medium priced players at prices that seem acceptable or because there are no bids, especially if you are new and do not have profits to offset this against but the platform is moving and maybe we should be being more vocal about the things that we possibly can get changed through group pressure:

Increased dividends due to increased commission
Improved player bios
Removal of retired players
Better communications

I would really like this thread to be positive about how FI has improved traders finances and lives and the opportunities it affords in the future, we all know the instant sell removal issue but it has happened so lets look forward.

I thought it may help new and some existing traders if I documented my journey with FI (although brief as it may help).

I work in the financial sector and started looking at FI this time last year and was not convinced so did not invest any funds until May 2018. I decided to treat it like other financial investments which meant thorough research and a buy/sell plan for each player. Some players were bought as potential 3 year holds for dividends and some for potential short term flipping. I also believe that you have to have a personal growth target that you deem acceptable for the risk taken. Everybody will have a different target in mind as each trader can use different strategy's some are far riskier than others. However it is not for me to say what is right or wrong just that you should have a plan and it should be realistic!

My plan was to buy top players initially and then add lower priced players as I went along. I wanted to achieve a good dividend return and wanted a 25% per year return on capital to justify both the risk and time involved.

My deposits were:
May: £1,550
Jun: £4,450
Jul: £2,000
Aug: £3,000
Sep: £250
Oct: £2,750
Nov: £1,000

Total to date £15,000 - there have been a few £10's from referral's and some 10% deposit bonuses.

Currently my portfolio is worth £19,935.75 and my cash balance is £459.02 so totalling £20,394.79.

Of the £5,394.79 profit just over £1,000 has come from dividends and £1,400 from trading players the rest is growth in the players I hold.

My current portfolio is 41 players and is made up of the following:

900 Futures in 3 young players yet to see growth
100 + Futures in each of Neymar, Salah, Pogba, Hazard, Kimmich, Sancho, Dembele, Mbappe, Sterling and Kane
25 - 100 Futures in a range of other top 100 players

As can be seen I have taken a very cautious approach and have benefitted from the recent increase in the top players prices. However what I can say is that I have seen steady growth month upon month and have never been in the red. My dividends have increased each and every month (Am already over £200 this month).

The lessons I have learnt:

Be realistic - If you target say 20% p/a you will probably earn much more but if you target 100% p/a you may lose money.

Dividends - Only a handful of players actually earn a good dividend return, holding these players allows you to reinvest the dividends in other lower priced players who have the potential to earn dividends in the future and so see capital appreciation.

Rome was not built in a day (be patient) this is not like everyday gambling. Some people are here just to gamble which is fine but if you are treating this like an investment do not let that side-track you into buying and selling to often.

Fundamentals are the key - Cheap players are cheap for a reason and expensive players are expensive for a reason however have a plan for each and every player you purchase. Just like the real stock market you must remove your rose tinted spectacles and get off your soap box - just because you like something it does not mean the wider world does - when buying players think what the world sees not yourself.

Final thoughts

My plan was and still is to make a profit over the medium long term and I think about it like this:

G & A is gambling which is fun or you could say its like buying penny stocks.
Young players are like AIM companies which may make it to the big time but more often do not
£2 -£5 players are smaller FTSE companies that cannot compete with the big boys but some do break out
£5 - £10 players are household names that do what they say on the tin
£10+ well that's Amazon/Apple/Microsoft etc - everybody wants them or there product but sometimes buy cheaper products due to price.

I understand we all win and lose money on here in differing ways but we also all benefit from new traders joining and therefore I thought a real life case study may be of help.

Good luck to all for the rest of 2018 and best wishes for 2019

Well this is not a great evening and feels horrible and although FI is not a stock market I would suggest you try to think like it is.

When markets crash they usually recover quickly and those that sell normally sell lower than the prices recover quickly to. However this feels like it has been coming and today/tonight all the conditions required for panic happened.

Firstly there are 3 conditions that set this up:

1. Global pandemic that makes individuals worry about there finances.
2. Removal of the old overly generous FI backed instant sell
3. New more volatile system that many traders do not understand with ridiculously generous 5x IPD that encourage gambling not trading.

Then there today were triggers that set the ball rolling.

1. Kane looks horrendous so IPD traders sell to get on others.
2. Neymar sent off so misses all 5x IPD matches
3. Sancho transfer to Man U looking unlikely so traders want out as he looked overpriced.

Therefore this starts a mass panic and those that now realise there money/gains are not guaranteed panic and list at lower and lower prices whilst big traders hoover these cheap shares up knowing in a few weeks things will look much better.

My guess is there will be a big deposit bonus soon - prices rise and all that sold out tonight regret it.

My advice is switch off and go to bed.

I play with figures for a living I know how to use them in an argument and am sick of seeing them to twist and argument and portray fiction and fact.

Mr White and Vespasian I am extremley confident (99.99% certain) that if we go back through you history of posting on here we will find posts condemning pumpers and dumpers especially those that but worthless players pushing there price up and then when they were trending as a top buy selling these shares to newbie traders who unwittingly purchased them and rightly so.

However I now see you quoting and supporting the fact that a high % of players have no instant sell price (38%) but I have looked at this and the vast majority of these players should not even be on the index and the vast majority have probably never had 1 share purchased. Due to world cups they are on the index.

Would you buy or should FI buy any of the following:
Cheshimi R Iran
Colndres D Costa Rica
Aseri M Saudi Arabia
Gomez G Panama

The answer is obviously no and the vast majority of the players with no sell price are similar, now it may be that FI remove all these players from the index and then you have no argument except that you expect FI to buy shit players who have little to no chance of winning anything off you - You made a bad bet and lose end of story - If you read the rules at outset instant sell never had a guarantee to buy at any price! Why not just pucker up and take it :)

It is not much more than a month ago that a posted a thorough update on my first 6 months journey on FI documenting how I had made significant returns whilst drip feeding £15,000 into the index. This seemed to be well received by several of you and so with the share split coming I thought it may be helpful to document how I have reacted to this announcement and made improvements to my portfolio.

Firstly I have added an additional £1,000 so have now invested £16,000 and my portfolio and cash balance now total £23,750 so the last few weeks have been very kind and my dividends continue to flow freely. However a month ago I had 41 players I now have 54 and feel very ready for the share split in fact the sooner the better as there is little I can do until it happens - Why?

I will first explain my beliefs on what I think will happen in the future and then explain what I have done to my portfolio to hopefully benefit from it.

1. I think that the share split will be 4 ways so increasing my shareholding in players by a multiple of 4
2. Dividends will initially fall by a division of 4 but maybe with rounding up to avoid 0.25 or 0.5 of a pence amounts
3. Top 20 Players being perceived as more affordable will rise significantly by the end of 2019
4. Outside of the top 20, players will rise but will be on a player by player basis not automatically like the top names
5. A serious dividend increase will happen but maybe not until August 2019 in readiness for the new season
6. FI will be working hard on a getting an acceptable and future proof website ready for the 2019/2020 season
7. They probably have not decided that in the future when player prices are high whether they use share splits or move us to buying fractional amounts of players. I believe share splits will work much better the buying shares in fractions.
8. I do not believe FI will ever add France, Italy, Germany or Spain to our platform but will look to set up a new platform for European countries dependent on individual country law. Ideally I believe they want a UK version and a Europe version with other countries joining the one which is best suited to them. (see end of post for reasoning) *
9. This may disappoint some who are hoping for this but do not worry I believe we are in for a massive growth spell over the next 18 months as FI is only now getting its message out and new traders are joining in huge numbers so the new lower prices will attract plenty of buyers and a dividend increase in August will further boost the index.
10. I then believe by 2020 things will settle down and earnings may lower from there high level they are now to a lower but still attractive amount.

Therefore what have I done:

I have set my portfolio up for the future where dividends are increased and are a much bigger driver of price than they currently are with the hope I will be collecting daily. To do this I have bought shares in the majority of the top players in multiples than when multiplied by 4 are at a level I would like to have them today but cannot afford. This way when dividends are increased in the future I will be ready.

So I now have:

200 Pogba
150 Neymar, Salah, Kimmich
100 Rashford, Dembele, KDB, Havertz, Brandt, Kane, Sancho, Sterling, Griezmann, TAA.
50 Gomez J, Vinicius, Pulisic, Neves, Hazard, Dybala, Eriksen, Jesus, Messi, Martial, Mbappe, Sane, Mendy B
25 Bentancur, Stones, Tielemans, Lenglet, Shaw, Haller, Piatek, VVD, Pepe, Richarlison, Asensio, Sule, Coutinho, Rodrygo, Sarr, Linguard, Rugani, Jovic, Mount, Skriniar

I also have futures in Keita, Markovic, Maxi Gomez, Nandez, Muriel, Vieira R, and Dowell which I am currently short term playing with but once they reach the right price will be disposed and I will move a 25 or 50 share player up to 100.

Once completed I believe I will have to devote less time to the index and can either add to my portfolio with the dividends or withdraw to create some tax free income and reduce my risk.

To summarise do not worry if you have just joined you are not late to the party 2019 should be a fabulous year to be investing it is not until the platform becomes mainstream circa 2020/2021 that % returns will drop from there massive double/treble digit returns to single digit in my opinion.

Cheers

Fletch

• I believe as well as desperately needing a new more reliable and interactive website the meeting with Nasdaq may well have been to discuss the problem of having one website where players are priced in both Euros and GBP as I cannot believe any of the other main football countries would be happy buying in GBP. This is incredibly difficult as currency prices are changing every second. Players would definitely have be fractionalised for it to work and FI would need to hedge currency so further complicating the business. Add in that if you add in European sources for Media you would instantly see mass selling of the UK based media buzz starlets at that point (currently Pogba). Therefore it makes so much more sense to roll out a European version priced in Euros and with Media based on mainly European media. This should not worry any of us as the UK market is huge - Previously millions did the Football Pools, now millions bet on matches via traditional bookmakers, spread betting is growing and hopefully FI is just the next progression of football betting.

There are several reasons why the market is slow and when you look objectively (pretend you do not have skin in the game) they are pretty obvious.

A rough ongoing diagnosis would be:

A global pandemic hit the world and cash was required by lots of individuals (FI Blocked withdrawals by removing instant sell). So little or no new money was leaving or entering the market.

Football was cancelled so the product became like a summer without any football where players would normally drop in price until football returns unless involved in transfer gossip.

Football index to provide some liquidity fast forwarded the 1st part of order books as they were not prepared to offer instant sell as there belief is too much cash would have been withdrawn (I still believe that if instant sell had been reintroduced a vast amount of money would have been withdrawn as many people are still worried about employment.)

Unrealistic views that Instant sell should have been brought back meant sentiment was reduced further so again less traders inclined to invest new money.

An understanding that when sell orders come into play that Market price will fall as sell orders will be huge initially.

Season coming to an end now so traders waiting to see what next season looks like - Deposit bonus, increased dividends full order books before committing new funds.

I feel that it could be a couple of months yet before optimism overtakes pessimism here. I also think that we will all be rewarded with much higher player prices and liquidity across the board by Christmas.

Hi All,

I looked back on my now 8 month old post and thought an update may be in order as I have today reached a significant milestone. By posting this update it will hopefully help new and old traders alike who may be thinking about strategy.

Through the last 8 months I have not changed dramatically in how I invest and the type of players I invest in - yes there has been a share split and dividend changes but the fundamentals have not changed. I still invest in top players and look out for lower priced players who I believe can earn dividends.

I continued to drip feed deposits (a further £5,000) and reached £20,000 of deposits a few months back and do not currently intend to deposit any further funds.

Today my portfolio has reached £40,000 so I have now doubled my investment . Of the £20,000 profit, £3,700 has come directly from dividends and there is now a constant stream of dividends coming in which allows me to grow the portfolio or maybe in the future withdraw as a tax free income.

My current portfolio is 46 players and is made up of the following:

500 Futures in Neymar, Salah, Kane, Sterling & Rashford
400 Futures in Sancho & 350 in Havertz
300 Futures in each of, Pogba, Kimmich, Mbappe, Jesus, Tah, Brandt, Goretzka, Nandez, Zaniolo, Foden, Rodrygo, Neves, Trent AA, V Junior, VVD, Carrasco, Hudson-Odoi, Dembele
150 Futures in each of, B Silva, B Fernandes, Chrisante, Eriksen, Pulisic, Ballo-Toure, Bamba, De Bruyne, Messi, Jovic, Verratti, Greenwood, M Gomez, N Pepe, Nelson, Brewster, Mahrez, R Vieira, Loftus-Cheek, Castagne,Kroos

My cautious approach has not changed and the majority of the portfolio are proven dividend winners alongside some future potential divided winners. Lots of the lower priced players which I own 150 shares in were bought in batches of 1000+ but sold down as soon as profit could be taken and then profits reinvested in higher priced players.

I do not look at the Index as a get rich quick scheme but more of a get rich slow process. Personally I do not now see much value at the lower end of players as I really cannot see them winning dividends in the next couple of years so what is there real value!

I believe the higher priced players are actually good value as the majority do earn you money and FI will have to increase dividends in the future (I believe mid December) and then these players will grow the most. Therefore they are a low risk bet in my opinion.

Finally when I joined people said I had missed the boat but obviously I had not - so if your new I would not worry - the top players may look expensive but they are not because FI will always need to underpin there value by increasing dividends or by share splits. New young stars will emerge and grow dramatically in price, however avoid the dross in the middle, they may look cheap but they are cheap for a reason!

Good luck to all for the rest of 2019

So for the last couple of weeks I have continually read articles from traders about player price drops, large spreads on players to instant sell and if a player has increased in value should he be sold. So now might be a good time to remind everyone that this is a gambling site and not a money tree!

With each passing month as more traders join the index becomes more established and just like any other index there will be ups and downs but more importantly there will be volatility. However just like when buying stocks and shares some people will do full due diligence whilst others will buy what they hear down the pub whilst others will just buy anything and more importantly will sell on emotion not sense.

With the platform now a little more established there are a higher percentage of traders that truly understand the concept of value so it will become less easy to make the returns we have become used to for what in effect was little effort or skill.

If the platform only reacted in a sensible and logical way only a handful of players would ever be bought and FI would make little money, however due to the fact that gambling is emotional and people do it with little or no study or planning means that it has and to an extent still is possible to make money based upon other traders gambling and emotional decisions.

To explain: If the index is rational there would be a fixed percentage return we would all accept for the risk taken with our capital, then using known statistics and sensible projections we would look at a players dividend potential over the next 3 years and work out the price he should be. I actually believe that a lot of the top 50 are close to these prices so hence there stagnation. However this stagnation reflects they will earn you money over that period and dependent on if their performances get better you will get an increased return or if they are injured or decline your return will fall.

The current fascination with young players is easy to understand as traders are scared on missing out on the next big thing so wish to buy on the cheap. However this is fraught with danger as you are now paying top 20 player prices for unknown future returns and for every 1 you get right there may be 10 you do not.

IPD are a brilliant way for FI to generate revenue as they play to the gambler and with large spreads and increasing prices my guess is more people lose than win and that within 12 months the players that can possibly make you money will be priced accordingly and losses will become more the norm.

Cheap players - this is the real bonkers part of the index - between everybody I read about on the forum you must hold at least over 400 cheap players sub £1.00 saying they will double. However over the last 18 months I am guessing these players or similar account for less than 5% of all PB wins never mind MB wins. However currently they make money as others also buy them but this can only end in tears when finally everyone realises for the purpose of the index they are dog shit!

Do not get me wrong there is money to be made at all levels but eventually there will be enough sophisticated traders understanding value that it will become a lower returning more boring environment that also caters for short term gamblers.

If you have got to this bit you really must have little to do as when re-reading this it is particularly boring 😀

Can already see some alarmist and knee jerk comments on here already after the twitter Q & A. But lets look at in detail:

New territories - In mine and a lot of other users views going back at least 2 years we have concluded it would be nearly impossible for a merged index and the main thing was to develop a strong transparent UK version

Media - The top players are wrote about in all papers and news outlets and will remain the top players for MB in the future, sorting out name glitches and few other irritating bits will be good.

The scoring matrix was already going to be reviewed annually so nothing changes there and again any changes are likely to be minor - yes TAA may get a little less per cross but the defenders who come 2nd and 3rd to him may also lose points - He will stay play for a team that dominates the ball, attacks down the flanks and he is young and should only get better!

Hopefully by the start of next season (not long) we should have sell orders, a better IPO system, a NASDAQ operating system, knowledge of when our 3 year holds finish and more accurate data on players.

All in all it was just an update on what we could have guessed and predicted - personally I am fine with it as in just a few weeks the product will look and feel better.

I have read several threads regarding the introduction of market makers which have differed greatly and wanted to post my understanding of them and how I think they will eventually improve things.

Firstly the traditional role of a market maker is to do as the name says is to create a market for others to trade on. So on Betfair they act like a bookmaker offering a price to both back and lay on an event and those prices are usually very close to the odds you could get elsewhere with say paddy power. If a customer wants to then offer more favourable terms then they can do that but the market maker ensures that there is an attractive market if no customer is willing to offer a fair price.

Here at FI until full order books are in place it is impossible to know exactly how the MM will operate but it is worth noting that currently.

LP1 is owned as a separate limited company by Football Index
It’s role is to provide liquidity to the index
It’s not here to profit from us it is to help keep the market moving
Initially it looks like it will be buying massive amounts of new shares in the higher priced players.
The idea behind this is that it reduces the market sell queue of these players and frees up traders cash for reinvestment in other players.
This does tie up say a couple of million of FI funds but will sit on the balance sheet of the new company and either make them a few quid or lose a few quid dependent on how it is set up (do they pay commission/do they waive dividends).

Currently this action will have limited effect on spreads as to start with some cash will leave the platform as unhappy traders get cash out at market price and leave. Others are listing at Market Price hoping LP1 buys there shares to hopefully buy back at a lower ME price. Others are using the cash to buy goalkeepers not the lower priced outfield players.

However over time and probably when we get to the start of the new season we may start to see this approach change behaviour because of the following reasons.

Those that want to leave should have left so less negativity will surround the product
Mass marketing campaign will generate new traders
Goalkeeper frenzy will have finished
Traders setting up portfolios for the new season
Traders will know that if they list to market shares will sell as MM does buy from the market sale queue
This in turn will push up instant sell price as it will need to be attractive to make it worthwhile selling quickly rather than waiting.

If FI can convince external MM’s to join this will accelerate the benefits to all as if there are several entities buying shares at market price it means there may be no queues which means FI sell more new shares and player prices rise so both us and the MM make money.

Eventually it would not surprise me to see LP1 or some other entity start to hoover up some shares in the lower priced players - the effect would be that a majority of traders list the player for market sale thus driving down the players price to a more reasonable level the entity buys them up and with less shares in circulation trading becomes more normal due to supply and demand.

There is a lot to happen and market makers need time before we really see the benefits and these are just my assumptions but by Christmas I think we will see some real benefits but it will need several MM’s each with a few million to get things right.

@Dan-The-Man

I agree with you for a change there Dan 😂

Below is something I posted on this a short while ago regarding 3 year valuations.

I have a slightly differing view and believe you can really only value a player until the next annual dividend review as you do not know what the annual review will do to the future value.

Therefore if I currently buy a player I am looking at the following:

IPD in first month
PB in year 1
MB in year 1
TOTM in year 1

Then you have to work out the risk of the player which involves where they are playing, how old are they and chances of losing form etc

It is then realistic to expect the dividends to increase for these areas in year 2 and 3 and additionally there may well be other ways to earn as last year there was no TOTM what is there to say there will not be other dividend earning prizes next year or the following.

There is also the possibility of future share splits like in previous years that also added value.

Therefore I am looking for players that can earn dividends in the current season and based on age and situation would likely continue to be in demand next year and if dividends rise hopefully the player will.

@Coriolanus

I get that but over 3 years the uncertainty is much more whilst looking over 1 year is much more predictable.

Lets use Teji Savanier as an example at a purchase price of £1.70 which was earlier today.

I think we would all agree he was likely to score a goal and get an assist during the IPD bonus period.

Most of us would expect him to collect some PB especially bronze days but with the potential for gold days.

He would also likely feature in TOTM a couple of times

However he is a no show for MB.

Therefore I would estimate somewhere between 40p and 80p this year.

At 28 I do not expect a big transfer or for him to improve or be playing a staring role at the Euro's.

However with the realistic potential of dividend increases for next season and based on him collecting a gold and a couple of bronze wins this year I cannot see him being worth less at some point early next season so he is low risk.

If he was to keep performing well for the next couple of months and increase to say £2.20 I would exit as I would have my dividends and Capital appreciation as his age and MB profile put me off from seeing him as a £3 player.

However valuing over 3 years is much more difficult as he would be 31 and predicting his returns in year 2 and 3 is so much harder as you do not know what his club and supporting cast will be and therefore is much harder/riskier

Sorry for the long ramble

Have said from the start I am not buying keepers!!!!!!

Have you seen there cup score, it went to penalties and all 10 outfield players scored then both keepers missed before Brooks scored for a 2nd time to win it after Palace missed!

@Coriolanus

Exactly and would expect the forum to be switched off!!

That is why I base decisions on there been higher or new dividends next year rather working things out over 3 years.

@Coriolanus

I would have been surprised if there was not.

However we are all clued up enough to know that if things continued to get worse for a significant length of time then I would expect we would all be out of the door.

Therefore we are basing our selections on the facts that the platform will continue to grow/develop/mature and for that to happen they will need to continue to increase dividends and incentivise traders.

If they ever reduced dividends it would make Sunday seem like a tea party!

@Coriolanus

I have a slightly differing view and believe you can really only value a player until the next annual dividend review as you do not know what the annual review will do to the future value.

Therefore if I currently buy a player I am looking at the following:

IPD in first month
PB in year 1
MB in year 1
TOTM in year 1

Then you have to work out the risk of the player which involves where they are playing, how old are they and chances of losing form etc

It is then realistic to expect the dividends to increase for these areas in year 2 and 3 and additionally there may well be other ways to earn as last year there was no TOTM what is there to say there will not be other dividend earning prizes next year or the following.

There is also the possibility of future share splits like in previous years that also added value.

Therefore I am looking for players that can earn dividends in the current season and based on age and situation would likely continue to be in demand next year and if dividends rise hopefully the player will.

He is back on his ponzi scheme horse and going on about how he will destroy FI on twitter. All of which does not bother me in the slightest as it is just the ramblings of a nutter.

I actually am starting to think that the I am a teacher and I have not been well ramblings were all make believe as surly nobody who works in education could either be that thick or more importantly risk there career in this currently very PC world be constantly calling everybody a C**t on a social media platform.

Maybe FI should be doing mental health checks rather than money laundering checks on us all.

@MrWh1te

For a school teacher you are just about the worst example of a human being there is.

I am amazed that someone with your outlook can be in charge of the moral and academic development of the future of this country.

I would guess that if any of your students were using social media to be constantly swearing and posting that they were going to be vindictive towards businesses they would be in severe trouble but you as there responsible leader can be a shining example of how not to act or behave.

No point replying as after a year of reading your drivel I have finally blocked you and suggest all fellow traders do.

I sincerely hope you find solace in something else but suggest you find something that does not require you to interact with others. Goodbye :)

Not sure how many of you read my perfect storm email last night but today I was thinking what would have happened to the index if the following had happening yesterday:

9am rumours start that FI will expand to 1 European country
In a 12 o’clock kick off Harry Kane scores a hat-trick
2pm kick off TAA scores 1 has 2 assists and a monster PB total
6pm news off Pogba Signing new Man U contract
8pm Neymar scores 5 in the farmers league
10pm Sancho hands in transfer request

Although this is fantasy it is not impossible and the market would have skyrocketed.

The new platform will be more volatile but that can be in both directions.