Football Index - Possible alternative way of making money

On the main dashboard when you log-in is where I saw it, where it says "Promotions", it scrolls through tips of the day etc and it's there, can't miss it. Their marketing person posted a link on twitter as well, here you go: Pasted from site, but I'm sure you'll be able to find it, got to put name/email address before you deposit to ensure the transaction is logged on their system, then they pay it into your account on the 1st August. Done this a few times and it works a charm, got to trade to withdraw though, but if you get on it quick you will make a lot as people get paid tomorrow and will be piling in over the weekend I imagine. Not sure if the link will work, I'm not very tech savvy, but my portfolio has grown 3.5% since they announced it at lunch time.

You have until Tuesday night 


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trade.footballindex.co.uk/july-10-bonus/

I joined a week ago for a bit of fun & as an experiment since I rather buy in to the growth concept as outlined by OP - I'm no football expert but do understand markets, trading & can often recognise whether an asset is under/over or fairly valued. Currently my portfolio has risen by 5% largely due to the pre season buying, transfer speculation & recent 10% deposit bonus scheme (less so my selection skills or football knowledge).

So next week I have 2 choices; sell up after having received my deposit bonus for a 10-12% profit after sales fees (not a bad return in less than 2 weeks) or continue with approx. 115% of my starting capital which I intend to do. Going forward to this time next year if I average a 1% monthly loss I should break even & a 1% gain will give a 25%+ profit both would be acceptable outcomes but I shall enjoy the ride & look at German/Spanish/Italian/French football results with added enthusiasm in future. I still think the Seedrs equity will be a good investment (disclaimer: I don't currently hold any but do intend to buy if the SM chance arises).

Just a quick word of thanks to bluechip for highlighting the opportunity & for his very generous advice & guidance via PM which helped me avoid some easy beginners pitfalls & good luck to anyone who participates - Do you want any Neymar?

I like the look of the latest offer.

Can someone explain to me how to best do it? Can I make an offer below the spread for players (I understand that you can put an offer in to sell this way).

What would be the least risk strategy to protect capital? I am only interested in getting the bonus and selling out, much like the position BC has got. Are there certain players whose liquidity makes it easy to trade?

Hi - I'd strongly advise against joining and then pulling out immediately to simply profit from the 10% offer. As Butch says they do have an option to void the bonus if they think it is being abused and I personally find it unethical, (I'm sure you don't care about that and just want free money) - but as I have promoted the platform on here I feel uncomfortable.

The point of this bonus is to reward loyal clients, encourage new members before the start of the new season and to give people a bit of room for trial and error with their trading methods (it's much easier to try new things with other peoples money and 10% buffer as well as a refund if you lose money is more than enough help for new users). To abuse the bonus is damaging to users of the platform who will lose confidence seeing a dip-in - dip-out strategy being adopted by other traders - this will cause declines in portfolios across the board and give people a false confidence. Please consider that this is a young business trying to grow, tactics like this are damaging and not why I suggested people use the platform.

Who wouldn't like the offer for a free 5% (give or take after commissions), they would soon go out of business if everybody followed this approach and I'd be amazed if you joined as a new member and then withdrew everything within days and got away with the bonus on top! If you do follow through please let me know if you manage to get away with it (I won't report as it will probably benefit me more knowing). Obviously it will be your lucky day, but as an investor in the business and somebody that has a large personal portfolio invested with the platform I would be worried about management if this wasn't picked up and I would begin to reduce my holdings.

These 10% offers are fantastic for traders, it benefits everyone - if they are abused then it ruins it for everyone and it will probably be more hassle than it's worth for you as well as you will likely have your account suspended adopting such a blatant money gram approach. So please consider the bigger picture as it has potentially major knock on effects.

Don't get me wrong I want to take from the house as much as possible and I'm certainly not against exploiting loopholes when big business has a flaw.

But this isn't a typical bookies/casino, it's more like a brokerage - think of it as an exchange where you pay a fee to list players/sell players, they provide the forum and take a small cut to do this. Or if you are playing poker the house takes a small piece of the pot to cover the dealer, facilities, etc. It's not a major company that wants to give money away for nothing, I'm sure it could afford it, but it's not why I suggested people look at this is a possible alternative investment. I opened it up on here as the 5% take home if you get away with it is peanuts compared to what can be made if you play the game and learn how to do it properly. I used to have no stress lining up to get public transport, but it only takes one or two  try and jump the line and then it causes mayhem for everybody.

My Bet365 account recently stopped giving money to people as a bonus as people were just taking it, so now they credit a bet - worse for those that don't abuse the system, but some people just joined to take advantage and ruined it for everyone else. I don't want that to happen to this platform, as it's going great and plenty of money is to be made by everybody.

I'm sure there are thousands of people thinking of abusing this system as it is so obvious for somebody to do this - especially if you have never even heard of the platform until recently and have no money tied up or emotional attachment. I can't imagine the platform is not aware of the flaw in their promotion, which is why they have added clauses to claw back the money if abuse is suspected. I think depositing money, to get a bonus then withdrawing everything within days will be a major red flag on their system - it will likely mean the person responsible loses money and comes away feeling robbed/upset and it has the knock on effect of causing serious investors to worry as the market is 'dropping' on account of these abusers.

Since trading with FI I have earned far more in dividends than I have paid in trading commission, because I play by their rules and I am wise enough not to sell players unless I have to so I avoid the 2%+ commission.

Rather than having the image of a major money grabbing casino in your mind, think of it more like an independent butcher at a market letting you try his cooked sausages before buying - not many people would keep eating the sausages until they are stuffed and not buy any - but the tactics talked about here are the equivalent of doing that and also running around the market telling people not to go to the butchers stand as he is out of free sausages!

So let me get this straight:

you buy imaginary "shares" of football players and hope for a profit if the football player becomes more valuable? So basically its fantasy football with betting your real money on player value increase instead of betting on player performance to win the fantasy league? So its 100% gambling/betting and everything is made up on paper (well, apart from the actual football players who play and become better IRL)? Not sure why is this even on a investment forum. Gambling/betting is not investment...