I get that mate, I'm on about MB over the media madness. The MB players are all expensive, MB divs for pogba let's say, are less than 0.5% of his share price. Sterling looks like winning it today. Less than 1%.
My approach was, and again is, for 1 sterling future, I could of had about 22 driussi's yesterday. Theyd of made me £3.52 today, where the 1 sterling will make me 2p. Ok this wont be true of every player every day but in balance I know where my money's going in future.
Dont get me wrong, I've now got a big stake in rashica, let's say I get to 50-70% ROI on him, that will be quite a chunk of money and yes if I then sell up, I may consider reinvesting in a bigger name, but my port will have recieved a boost from my cheaper players that I just dont see coming from your sterlings or pogbas in terms of percentages.
I'm not talking about jumping on pump and dumps either. Of course you need to be selective. Driussi would of been at sampdoria a year ago but his wife was due to give birth so he decided not to uproot his family. Inter are now keen. The rise he has had is on the strength of likely being in a PB league next season. In that respect, of course divs are driving the market, his rise is proof. I'm happy to take the cap app. As I said before, I and others, are happy making money off predicting where the money will go in the near future

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@LuaLua understanding and prioritizing are 2 different things. I'd rather predict market trends than sit refreshing the live rankings screen hoping I'm in for 3pps off a player who's £7 odd a share.

For example I said earlier the only big player I kept was pulisic. Why, because after the Europa league final, hazard will be announcing hes off. People will sell him. Where will the money go? Well of course ppl arent forced to stick with a Chelsea player but I strongly suspect pulisic and rlc will rocket in the aftermath.

Maybe I'll be proved wrong but that's the way I prefer to play the market and on the whole I've been doing really well barring the month or so I got talked into div chasing

@Mundek agree with every word. Just really wish I'd been more head strong and backed myself. Been a bit of a sheep to be brutally honest, allowed myself to be convinced divs was where it's at, even tho I was flying previously. Turned my port back round now and already made more profit in cap app in the past 6 hours or less than I'd made in the past 3 weeks including dividends just off osimhen rashica and driussi.

The only big player I've kept is pulisic because hes nailed on for profits

A month ago or so my port was what I gather to be a beginner port. A good few hundred shares each in players who I believe offered loads of cap app ie young'ns with potential and/or PB links if currently outside of PB leagues. I changed it all up in preparation for summer swapping them all for big name players who would bag me loads of dividend money with which I would restock my cheapies and never look back.
It just hasn't happened at all. For a few separate reasons I couldn't bring myself to pay the asking price for pogba, but filled up with England players and a few other big names.
Yes I've had a few Bob in divs but they probably havent even covered the cap dep I've seen in most of them, kane and Salah aside.
Meanwhile, my old cheapies who I abandoned have seen tremendous cap app. I'm around 50p up on kane and Salah, which is around 11% ROI and that's not bad in 2 weeks or whatever it's been, but meanwhile, driussi, osimhen, rashica, mollejo and others have seen cap app ranging from, and I am being very rough here, about 14% in mollejos case to over 50% in driussi's case in the same 2 weeks.
I'm gonna forget about the dividend chasing and turn my port back around. I will then just sit on it and the next trade I make will be when one of my cheapies reaches what I perceive to be their ceiling.
The point of all this is that I now firmly believe that if u put the time and effort in and pick the right players, cap app is far more profitable, and as was stated by someone earlier in this thread, the ultimate goal is to be on a future div earner early.
If that happens, great, if not, the cap app I've missed out on, and am going back in for, hugely outweighs the divs return when looking at it in terms of ROI which is the only sensible way to look at it

Interesting point but I was actually holding him mainly because of prem links. If that materializes there might still be a bit of value in him. I'll buy back in end of the month, him and a couple of others

Ahh I see. Nightmare man, hes one of three I was planning to buy back into ASAP. probably still will do but it's a shit feeling.

Funny really, I've only missed out on £52, in my gambling days I wouldn't of batted an eyelid at that.

That's the joy (and frustration) of FI I guess

Never stopped at work today. What's behind rashica's rise?

I cut my holding to 1 future as a tracker in order to get my portfolio summer ready. I had held 400

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@Chris-J 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

I've just freed up some money and jumped on some keepers.

Butland, pickford, Pope, courtois, ederson.

Hoping keepers in general may be all the rage in the coming months. Who else do people fancy?