I was on the night shift last night and had a chance to check my port on my mobile at around 23:15 - WOW!

The more I refreshed the deeper into the red my higher end players were dropping. The first thing I did was use my work computer to look at the forum. I am not allowed to log in as a user but I could view it.

I checked my lower end players and there was not much movement there so this got me thinking that maybe all is not bad after all.

I flicked through a few threads and in one @Black-Wolf and @Dan-The-Man were discussing we may not see an opportunity like this again which put me at ease to look for bargains.

For me @Black-Wolf has been a pillar of good advice during the period since the recent OB change

Although I am not new out the box any more I rely a lot on the guidance and opinions of the forum family.

I don't have big savings but managed to deposit a bit and topped up on Kane who at one point was selling at £3.60!!!! and added to a lot of other long term holds.

It is hard to hold your nerve when events like last night occur. Thanks to all who helped me not panic......

Reached by last nights games

Note to self: Top up and refresh GK's more often.

Not a very helpful post in my opinion

Thanks to the legend @MickTurbo for starting this thread, I will try to do it justice as the new custodian. I am quite nervous following in his footsteps so please be gentle with me.

I will point out that I do work shifts and tomorrow I start the night shift for a few days so there will be some odd times that I post the matches, starting with right now, however I will try and get it out well before the first kick off so you can all have a good old chat.

So without further ado I present a very underwhelming set of fixtures from the farmers league (Ligue) for today. 2 games to be exact making it a bronze match day.

On the first day of the second phase of the bonus is there anyone within these 4 teams you will buy for PB, IPD or sell for profit???

Or perhaps you just own one or two!

Spill your guts or pump away.

This is another thread pleading for reassurance - they are are daily occurrence now and the same reply's are getting recycled and re recycled and boring and the same.

You are hoping someone will give rock hard proof that you will be a millionaire this time next year which ain't gonna happen.

Let's get ourselves a pair of balls eh? While you are shitting yourselves I am getting a nice port at a reduced price.

Of course prices will go back up, How can they not with the new divs?

"Disclaimer for this reply 2 x large whisky 3 x 500 ml golden ale 1/2 bottle red wine".

Due to no-one contributing to this thread during a gold matchday I have decided that I will make today the last "Rolling matchday thread" that I will concoct as it seems to have run its course.

If anyone wants to take over feel free.

Good luck and farewell!!

For me it is bed time. Have bought and sold a lot today to try and second guess what will happen tomorrow.

I have removed all in sell queue and cancelled all bids.

I go to bed now with all my players in the green, even Griezmann, so hopefully our ports can survive the anticipated drop and then fly up again.

good luck all

It is the hybrid of gambling and investing that makes it so bloody brilliant, annoying, exhilarating and unique all in one.

Better times ahead me thinks........

@Valhalla I make you right there Valhalla. If you get in to a bun fight on this forum you can easily remove yourself. Losing a willy measuring contest isn't being bullied, even if you have to eat humble pie.

Whilst a lot of comments on this forum recently have been silly, I'm not sure they are bullying, just immature.

When you have keyboard warriors goading an overweight teenager on facebook making their lives a misery because they don't fit in is , in my opinion bullying - just one example of many.

But on this forum my advice would be don't bite and don't feed the trolls.

You are not being bullied in the sense that your private life, way you look, dress etc is used to humiliate you and saying you are being bullied, in my opinion, makes a mockery of the real victims of online bullying, or any other bullying.

I'm not a #bekind snowflake, but Kids are contemplating suicide due to online bullying. Just giving a bit of perspective.

@VicMackey They were only finished with the removal of IPD's which they need a bloody good replacement for.

I have circa 550 Jhon Cordoba's which were made redundant overnight. He was always good for a few goals and assists during a 30 day period.

There needs to be a way of bringing a bit of value back to these type of players as many a trader used to buy and sell these and are now wondering if they will ever make a return, however small.

@NewUser359195 As everyone else says, don't worry. We all go through it. They will ask again after you have deposited/withdrawn a certain amount.

@NewUser632288 Congratulations, your very first post has got -13 in down votes so far.

Probably because it is now just another boring negative post by a user without a proper user name.

Not saying I agree or disagree with it, but all these posts are just really pointless.

@NewUser682505

Welcome to the forum, if you go on to your profile you can set yourself a username rather than being a newuser123456. You will then be less anonymous and more folk will respond.

The market has been volatile for a while now and if you joined index at the same time as forum you are in a good position to buy while prices are low in my opinion.

It looks as though it is settling a bit now but try not to look at the value of player too much at this time, look what they can earn you over a sustained period. By this I mean if Kane, Salah, Messi, Neymar drop in price see if you can get a few more of them.

If they bring in the money consistently they will rise accordingly.

When the market does pick up there will be a lot of people kicking themselves.

Not sure if I have answered what you were asking but hope it helps anyway!!

Best wishes

Disclaimer: 3 x ale, 1 x wine 2 x single malt.....

Pay out on 2nd working day of the month so I make it that we will have to wait until Tuesday 5th January to hit our accounts.

@Valhalla made me laugh once the punchline dropped.. I kept looking thinking "what?, Helen?, 2018????"

@NewUser462188 said in Long term:

The rest I'm relying on compound interest

This line is absolute key. I presume you mean compound dividends for interest? Of course you did.

The advice I picked up on when I first started was this thing about re investing the dividends sensibly. This gets easier as your port grows. Mine is now 10 months old (still quite young) and around £7500.00 of my money invested. I have earned this in divs:

I was helped massively by stocking up on Brown Sunday cheap players, followed by 5 x IPD but even now there are days when I have got £60 + on a weekend in dividends. That free money can be compounded by buying 100 shares in a competent IPD player, especially now!!

Or even topping up your cash cows whilst they are low.

Hang in there, an older port is a lot different to a new one, a vintage port will be even better, I'm in for the long term.

Anyway, you already know this eh?

Merry Christmas

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@Black-Wolf He's not an idiot per say. He's the result of an absolute shambolic management of the platform and there's plenty like him unfortunately but this forum has a way of singling people out and bullying them out of the forum

Theres your "Bullying Victim"

I didn't realise @o_O had announced his departure. No need to @o_O , it isn't an airport mate......

@Ddr my bad, missed a hat -trick chance. Don't think he'll be down scored for that!!!

@xXMr_FishXx That came out of nowhere!! Must get scored down by opta for missing a penalty?