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Mark is eBay mid (Refresh pulls solds now). CH FMV on holdings refreshes about every 5 minutes in the background — context, not the mark.

Notes

A weekly review of the cards you hold — list, sit, skip. Then last sold vs mid on what you watch, and a few RIGHT clips in your sports. Mark is eBay mid. Net is what you pocket after fees.

Watching

Last sold vs eBay mid on cards you starred. Not in the book until you add cost.

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Deals for you

RIGHT clips in sports you hold or watch, then a few more worth a look. Last sold vs eBay mid.

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Market

Search a player. Browse is cards with eBay tape — not the whole index. Listed is a live BIN; Net is eBay mid after fees.

Confidence

Pre-market fair Beta

MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, soccer — any print you hunt that has no eBay solds yet. Scale a taped equivalent in that sport. This is not a mark. Tape wins when solds land.

Base is the hobby copy. Refractor / color / gold / numbered scale off that. Prizm Silver is base.

Day-one starter — not how famous they are yet.

Leftover cardboard upside. A legend is a 1.

We pick a taped name in this sport if you leave this blank.

Study Beta

On-demand note on a name — pulse, tape graph, season, headlines, and Card Hedge sales volume. Injury is roster, not a new mark. Tape wins.

Trades & lots

Pick 1–3 from your book (tape + cost show as you select). Lot asks, or a 2-way vs catalog — including 2–3 for 1. Balance by value finds prints near your tape.

Hot

What’s printing now — most solds in 90 days on eBay, Courtyard, and Arena Club, then live BIN. Not a buy list. Market is hunt; Deals is under mid.

Catalog

Every card we have indexed — not your book. Open a set to see the checklist.

Cash

A budget hunt — not the book. Pick how much you have. Under $200 is how you start: one RIGHT card, long, not five $40 names. Flip is a list-window clip. Mid is fair ask until the next sell month. Size is eBay mid. Spend Courtyard first (0%), then Arena Club (~10%), eBay last (~13%).

    Pick a band.

    Deals

    RIGHT hunt cards only — not your book. Mark is eBay sold mid (what we call fair). Each card explains itself: last sale vs mid, how many solds, and this month’s season window.

    Clip: last eBay sale at least ~10% under mid while that sport is in a sell window. Example: MLB in August. NBA Flip is empty until playoffs list season.

    August: NBA & soccer are buy months — use Mid, not Flip. Flip fills when that sport is in a sell window (e.g. MLB now). strong clip = last sale under mid and under our synced market estimate — extra confirmation, not the mark.

    Confidence

    Watch

    Hunt list. Not in the book until you add cost. Search here, or ⋮ on a Market card. Card Hedge price moves show when a print matches.

    Watching

    Hunt the card, not the discount

    10% off the wrong card is still the wrong card. Deals only count on RIGHT. The pill is a title scrape — if the slab looks like print, it is print.

    BUY = dump. WAIT = hype. SELL = in-season heat. Outline is this month. Not a price forecast.

    BUY — dump. Fair ask on the right card. WAIT — hype. Need a real discount. SELL — in-season heat. List, don’t add.

    Baseball sells from opening day through October; November is the dump. NBA sells into the Finals, buys in summer. NFL into Super Bowl, dump in March. NHL into the Cup, buys in summer. Soccer sells into summer tournaments, buys July–August. This month’s cell is outlined so the SELL isn’t a vibe — it’s the window.

    RIGHT

    Buy these

    One card per player — hunt the PSA 10 of the licensed RC or 1st Bowman Chrome auto. Fair ask in a buy window; fat discount in a sell month. BGS / SGC / raw still add; mark is that grade’s tape.

    MAYBE

    Only with tape

    1st chrome without auto, random autos, Tiffany / Leaf. Not a book card until eBay solds say so.

    WRONG

    Skip / recycle

    Now, BCP, mega, paper, inserts. Don’t add more of a name you already hold the filler of.

    RIGHT The card you hunt

    PSA 10
    2018 UPDATE
    US1
    OHTANI
    Licensed RC
    2018 Update #US1
    PSA 10
    1ST CHROME AUTO
    CDA
    SKENES
    Bowman Chrome auto
    CPA- / CDA- · not USC27
    PSA 10
    2019 CHROME
    #201
    VLADDY
    Chrome RC base
    The #201, not a Now
    PSA 10
    PRIZM RC
    NBA
    PRIZM
    NBA / NFL / soccer
    Prizm · Optic · Chrome · Mega Cracks RC
    PSA 10
    DONRUSS OPTIC
    RC
    RATED
    Optic RC
    Rated Rookie · not Downtown

    MAYBE Need solds

    PSA 10
    1ST CHROME
    NO AUTO
    Chrome, no auto
    1st chrome without the auto · not BCP
    PSA 10
    TIFFANY / LEAF
    RC
    VETERAN
    Veteran RC
    Tiffany · Leaf · tape first

    WRONG Print — recycle

    PSA 10
    TOPPS NOW
    #88
    MOMENT
    Filler sets
    Now · Holiday · Archives
    PSA 10
    BOWMAN
    BCP
    SOTO
    BCP base
    Prospect chrome, no auto
    PSA 10
    MEGA BOX
    #79
    CHOURIO
    Mega / paper
    Chourio mega · Ohtani #49 paper
    PSA 10
    INSERT
    DT
    DOWNTOWN
    Inserts
    Downtown · Youthquake · Cosmic
    PSA 10
    ALLEN & GINTER
    A&G
    GQ
    Non-hobby
    A&G · Gypsy Queen · flagship

    Parallels

    Pink of Chrome #201 is still #201 — price the pink tape, not the base. Logofractor, Prism, Downtown are different cards. RIGHT is a title scrape: if the slab isn’t that print, it isn’t.

    Confidence — name thesis, not a buy score

    Every card gets a band from the name and this print. Tape and the season still make the call. Click Confidence on a card to see that copy’s factors. The formula is here so the number isn’t a vibe.

    PrintRIGHT +20 · MAYBE +8 · WRONG 0, and WRONG caps the whole thing at Low. Ohtani Now is still a Now.
    Star 1–5+5 per star. How much of a face they already are. Unrated if they’re not on our name book — we don’t invent a 4 from a last name.
    Potential 1–5+4 per level. Leftover cardboard upside. A legend is a 1. A 1st Bowman is a 5.
    Rookie+15 if this copy is the hunt RC or 1st chrome auto. Veteran print of a star gets none.
    MVP raceMLB / NBA / NHL. Hunt list only. First MVP that would re-rate the RC scores more. Another Ohtani / Jokic / SGA trophy does less. NBA always names the season window — August is out of season (offseason odds), not tip-off heat. Not used for NFL.
    DPOYNBA only. Defending / hunt DPOY (Wemby). Separate from MVP. Not a filler wing.
    Playoff / SBNFL instead of MVP. January cardboard — dynasty / contender path. Preseason and camp outs are not a re-rate. Mahomes SB window scores; McConkey camp buzz does not.
    Future HOFVeterans we hunt into a vote (Posey, Utley, Pujols, Gronk). Not a Cooperstown guess on an active star.
    Ballon d'OrSoccer instead of MVP. First trophy that would re-rate the RC scores more. Another Messi Ballon d'Or does not.
    Golden BoySoccer instead of HOF. U21 race — Yamal / Endrick, not a veteran. Messi does not get Golden Boy points.
    RosterIL-60 / IR −12 · Out −10 · IL-7/10/15 −8 · DTD −4 · Minors −10. Clear is 0. Shows as a tag on the card. Sport-specific feed (below).
    Player pulseBackground job every 30 min — not inside the web process. Writes player_pulse / game_fire tables in MySQL; Book only reads them. Baseball: MLB 40-man — IL and optioned to the minors. NBA / NHL: ESPN Out / IR / DTD, not week-to-week questionable. NFL: same ESPN feed, but only week 1 through Super Bowl — preseason / camp outs are noise, not a confidence ding. Soccer: no IL feed — Roster is n/a (0 pts), not “clear.” Value is eBay mid, not the injury.
    TonightHot → Tonight. Last night’s MLB box (3+ hits, 2 HR, 10 K) and ESPN NBA/NFL/NHL lines, matched to the hunt card we have tape for. Not a buy list — August baseball is SELL. Don’t chase a night into a BIN.
    EstimatePre-market fair only when this print has no eBay solds. If SportsCardsPro / our index already has a PSA 10 mid, Estimate refuses and sends you to the product — tape is the mark. We never scale a Yamal Chrome into a Messi Mundi Cromo “fair.”
    StudyOn-demand note on a name — pulse, season, confidence ding, price graph on every run, and headlines. The chart always plots daily eBay sold mid; if he’s on IL/IR the red line is the day he went on the list (domain stretches so it isn’t clipped). Toggle Chrome / Update / Bowman chips or click a series to hide a copy. Headlines refresh in the background into player_news. RIGHT and MAYBE only — WRONG isn’t drawn. Type any player.
    Trades & lotsPackage 1–3 from your book, or a 2-way vs catalog (including 2–3 for 1). Live tape/cost as you pick. Near my tape ranks catalog by value gap. Even = tape · Firm = eBay net · Walk = cost floor · Haircut = multi-card concession. Tape wins; CH FMV is context.
    Bands75+ High · 55–74 Solid · 35–54 Thin · under 35 Low.

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