@Dan-The-Man

It's not factually incorrect it's just meaningless. If you were guaranteed that everyone else in the country was definitely going to vote first then your vote would almost certainly end up being meaningless. But this is never the case so if you believe in something you have to go and vote in case a bunch of other people who support the thing you believe in choose not to because they think that one vote never matters.

@Dan-The-Man

Perhaps just over 1.3 million remain voters thought the same and didn't bother.

@Ericali said in European Elections:

The pound dropped & then recovered 👍(it does this all the time - it's a stock market!)

I'm trying to think of another example of a situation where this happens that people on this forum would be familiar with so I can make an analogy but I'm really struggling

@Gazz127
5% bonus period has been boosted to 10% and extended to the end of June. Max bonus payable is £2000

@jay
I'm also not affected by this but I anticipate some people kicking off as usual about this. What if you really went out on a limb to get a big 5% bonus in cash terms on the understanding that it was coming into your account at the end of this month? People who have put 40k in this month might now sell 20k of players as that is all that is now required. Perhaps FI saw that very few people put in the 40k so are trying to stimulate more. All conjecture...

The best way to analyse this issue is by imagining FI without any dividends. Would anyone buy anyone? No. Of course people buy players for cap app, but that cap app is driven by the potential to win divs. It may well be the case that the cap app we often see far exceeds the div potential of the player concerned, and then it is down to individual traders to decide if the player is worth it or not. It is also true that traders will buy players who they do not believe will return significant divs purely to get on board a player who has started to increase, but that increase is at base influenced by div potential as perceived by others.

I think a more accurate statement would be:

Cap app often does not reflect true dividend potential, and has a momentum of its own.

This does not alter the fact that divs drive the market, as the market could not and would not exist without them.

@Dan-The-Man

I disagree with you a little on that as the Hazard signing has been more or less nailed on for a long time now so his price has decreased more slowly as people are trying to time their exits right to maximise divs while getting a good sale price. he's lost 30p today and that is because of the reclassification.

Pogba can be considered separately as his transfer is by no means certain and he isn't going to get reclassified. Still a risk of course as none of us know what will happen. Personally I've made so much from Pog as to make the current shares I hold freerolls so I'm feeling less pressure. I think if he does go it won't be quick.

@Dan-The-Man

Yeah that's true, I missed the peaking at £5.52 bit, thought you were just talking about today.

I was planning on holding my Hazard's throughout the summer (for MB) and into next season at Real (PB) but the second part has been thrown into some doubt now.

@Dan-The-Man

Eden's price has dropped because FI have reclassified him as a midfielder. Maybe he'll be competing for the same PB as Pogba next season!

@NewUser49569

How is that possible when his price has rocketed in the past year? You realise if you sell him now you'll have made about a 400% profit?