My money would be on Michael Burry
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My money is absolutely fine sitting on the fence being a spectator.
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can we change the title of this thread to ‘PlayingFTSE playlist’ 
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That’s a bit biased to other videos out there 
You can post your next video here when it’s finished dude
Oh well!
Here’s the latest two:
Short midweeker
And
Full show
Both with Damien Talks Money as our special guest (he’s YouTube famous!)
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Finally got around to tuning into an episode of Playing Ftse. It was a good listen, well worth it!
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This one is interesting -
Never stumbled on his videos before.
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This Nimble Nomad is pretty spot on with my understanding.
Just wanted to show you guys this quick 60-second video of my favourite investing graph! It’s a graph as it shows the change in the percentage over time, but you can calculate your value for right now to see where your percentage stands if you don’t want a graph.
Calculating is pretty easy:
- Portfolio Value x 0.04 = Potential Annual Income
- Potential Annual Income / Total Lifetime Deposits x 100 = Income Yield on Cost
I’d love to hear where your percentage stands! As of last weekend, mine was 7.5%.
Also got a portfolio vs S&P 500 graph figured out, just need to finish writing up the historical data but I’m really looking forward to that too! Unless you track your own portfolio in a spreadsheet, I don’t think you could repeat this. But if you do track your portfolio it’s actually pretty easy to do. Accuracy depends on how frequently you record your portfolio though.
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My brains not working but this seems interesting. What would we use the figure for?
Assuming the 4% is used because thats generally given as a safe annual withdrawal rate for retirement, and dividing that by your bookcost(unadjusted for inflation?), it will tell you when the portfolio is able to self fund its own growth? Another explanation would be that if you put in 10k a year, and got your portfolio to a size where your Potential annual withdrawal rate was 10k, then you could effectively withdraw 10k of your portfolio each year in to retirement. Is that right?
Not exactly with your first point. It doesn’t really produce much meaningful information, but shows your portfolio milestones. Your second point kind of got it.
The significant milestone as I said is when the percentage gets to 100%. This means that every single year you can withdraw the same amount of money that you’ve ever put into the portfolio. And the fact that it is possible to do that is so motivating to me, and I think it’s a great way of explaining to people how powerful investing is. That’s kind of the hope of my YouTube channel, to be able to show my entire journey when I’ve “made it”, and this graph will be so interesting at that point.
I like your idea of the point where the portfolio “self-funds” it’s own growth. I assume that would be your annual potential income / annual deposits. So 100% in that case would mean that your portfolio would be able to “take over” your own deposits. Think it would be a bit more complicated that that but it’s interesting too.
And your small point about adjusting for inflation is great too. But I think it would be too difficult for this graph which is really just seen as a milestone indicator. Like when I hit 10% (hopefully soon), that means I could theoretically withdraw 10% of my entire total deposits each year without depleting my portfolio value.
I waffled a lot here but hopefully that helps you figure it out.
Edit: one last thing to explain.
Say you had invested £1,000 into your portfolio and that was it. To make £1,000 per year with the 4% rule you would need to have that £1,000 to turn to £25,000. So at 8% annual growth, it would take just under 42 years to get to that 100%. Obviously inflation would be pretty significant now, but the fact is you still only did put in £1,000. No different to if you just put it under your mattress, or even in a savings account at these interest rates 
Just thought this would be a video you would all be interested in:
What is the Average FREE SHARE Worth on Trading 212? 328 Free Shares!
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How do we get one of the 328 free shares?
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Should I do a giveaway 
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Be careful, mate, the pink broker might ask YouTube to delete your video too!
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Here is my original 2022 portfolio update video if anyone is interested 
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This is actually lolz, I got a national grid one.
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Before or after the split? I had no idea there was a split and I didn’t trust myself when writing in the free shares because the values were so different lol