Order Books are the confidence trigger on the long term viability of the company, so while I understand ppl may have been impacted or not in their strategy, long-term you should be happy with their introduction.

If you didn’t realize, Covid put your entire bankroll at risk.
With Instant Sell banked by FI, the company needs to keep a huge cash liquidity to be able to fulfill withdrawals at every moment. While the total market cap of the shares is around 130MM, FI does not have 130MM sitting in a bank account waiting for you to withdraw. Without having any insight in their financials, I estimate they have fixed costs of around 20-25MM yearly atm (to pay ~100 employees, software, building, deposit bonuses, promotions). On top of it, they are giving out ~20MM in dividends this year (correct me if I am wrong).
Are they making 40-45MM in commissions this year? No, not really, with Covid the profit they make with commissions may be just half of it from what we know.
So the Instant Sell function was leading them to keep huge amount of money idle in their account waiting for doomsday events, instead of investing in growth, infrastructure etc, but this sum would have never covered all the requests of IS, which would have generated more panic selling eventually sending them bankrupt in the worst case scenario.

So they were very fast in disabling IS which saves the entire system from collapsing.

With order books, they have no more liabilities. If you are selling, somebody is buying (market sell or matching engine).
As long their fixed and variable cost < profit from commissions, no other event can impact their p&l. Moreover, they can lower the amount of reserve they have just to a minimum, unlocking the possibility to spend that money elsewhere, from divs to promotion to marketing to software. If you were trusting the company before and willing to take the risk of investing in virtual shares, OB should increase your confidence more than ever. Again, your strategy may be impacted short-term (I have 1000s of shares of 50p players as well), but you should be more confident that the company is evolving in a more mature direction.

Other than that, I agree they need to invest in better communication and software

Matt Doherty has 7-8 fixtures available, with Ireland playing the Euro2020 qualifiers.
Returned me almost 10% only in divs over the last 2 weeks, and he is still only 92p, madness

Updating this thread, sub 40p will be again in demand!

Daler Kuzyaev, discussed before, 24p, Russian international, 270+ Pb score, is in high demand (contract runs out at the end of June). Already declared that wants to play in Europe.

Valencia, OM interested but other teams will line up for a free transfer

https://www.getfootballnewsfrance.com/2020/marseille-interested-in-zenit-midfielder-daler-kuzyaev/

Aleksander Isak, the easiest one in my opinion. 14 goals this year, 20y/o, links to Real and Barca, very underpriced vs strikers in the same category (eg. Jonathan David, Osimhen).
I would say you can make 25% cap app in 3 weeks, by the time he scores his first goal

Imagine the money you can make on Mondays

@Sol had already advised these people to use their forum to discuss other platform with which they are affiliate.
There are clear references in Football a index T&C against this behavior. This was a semi-organized attempt to redirect people to another platform using their affiliate account.

Sincerely, looking at T&C, they are risking all their funds as well. We are not talking about a random chat about other platform, but using a Football Index product (the forum) to promote other platforms through which they are making money (website, affiliate etc).

Good trade, regardless of the outcome, @Ericali! Having hundreds of people discussing a single trade strategy is already an achievement, and it highlighted how risk averse are people, selling at 60% loss not to wait few days. Most of the people here actually!

True power of the matching engine

I’ve sold in the sell queue Schick, Chris Richards, Ikone, Lee Kang-in, Kainz, Alaba, Gerson, Basic all gone in few days with very thin sell queues

I’ve recently found an easy buy

Samuel Tetteh, 23y/o forward for Lask Linz
Next EL game? Man Utd
G&A? 5G&4A in 18 games
On loan from? RB Salzburg

With Salzburg known for selling their talents, he may get back next year and, at that point, skyrocket. If he stays at Lask Linz, they are topping the league and may feature in Champions League.

Price? 30p

@MrWh1te I am sorry you are referencing wrong things. There are have been more than 1 thread 1.5 months ago with direct links to an affiliate program, after which the narrative of certain people changed on Twitter (free to do whatever they want) and on the forum (FI product, read T&C) to bring people in the affiliate program.
I am telling you that is covered by T&C and has I had warned before, even funds are at risk, not only forum membership

A member of the forum stands guilty of using a FI product (the forum) to promote a website/affiliation through which he is making money on a competitor website.
Do you understand this is not a joke?

@MrWh1te Well, I read in your bio ‘speculative’ and ‘challenge’ players, so you should be aware of risk factors.
But ok, are you still contributing to the forum while leaving? Maybe you are staying?

@MrWh1te sorry I left the forum for few days - hadn’t you left Football Index? 😂

@Sol had already advised these people to use their forum to discuss other platform with which they are affiliate.
There are clear references in Football a index T&C against this behavior. This was a semi-organized attempt to redirect people to another platform using their affiliate account.

Sincerely, looking at T&C, they are risking all their funds as well. We are not talking about a random chat about other platform, but using a Football Index product (the forum) to promote other platforms through which they are making money (website, affiliate etc).

Updating this thread, sub 40p will be again in demand!

Daler Kuzyaev, discussed before, 24p, Russian international, 270+ Pb score, is in high demand (contract runs out at the end of June). Already declared that wants to play in Europe.

Valencia, OM interested but other teams will line up for a free transfer

https://www.getfootballnewsfrance.com/2020/marseille-interested-in-zenit-midfielder-daler-kuzyaev/

Not sure what price he can reach, but I see links to top teams arising very soon, top PL teams included. Newspapers will speculate a lot on the new Haaland story to generate clicks.
I am actually quite surprised there is still no link to United :)

Think I need to pull the trigger on Aouchiche shares. With the recent price growth of some other wonderkids this is inevitably happen, either if he is playing at PSG or not

@Dronny-Gaz do we legitimate your winnings? Don’t know what do with it if others don’t know you won it? Maybe you can post your salary as well, we can cheer with you