Market Trends
Raw singles, PSA 10 slabs and sealed product, side by side: where price and sales volume are moving in each market. Each line is indexed to 100 at the start of the window. Descriptive, not a forecast.
Price, three markets
Raw singles −4.2% PSA 10 slabs +15.7% Sealed product +1.1%Dashed rule = 100, the start of the window · hover to read a day
Raw singlesTCGplayer market, every tracked single
Price▼ −4.2%Sales volume▲ +1.2%Share of sales9%
Price Volume
Price down while activity rises: more sellers meeting the bid.PSA 10 slabsGraded sold volume, a far thinner sample
Price▲ +15.7%Sales volume▼ −10.2%Share of sales91%
Price Volume
Price up on thinner activity: fewer sales carrying the move, which is the easier kind to reverse. Graded is a thin sample, so read the direction over weeks, not the number.Sealed productBenchmark basket of boxes, bundles and ETBs
Price▲ +1.1%Sales volumenot measuredShare of salesnot measured
Price Volume: not measured
Up 1.1% over the window. We do not measure sold units here, so this is a price move only; it says nothing about how much changed hands.How this works
01 · What is measuredPrice and sold units per day, per market. Raw price is the mean TCGplayer market price across the cards priced that day, a mean, not a sum, so the tracked universe growing is never read as the market getting dearer. PSA 10 price is the mean realised sale price. Sealed is the benchmark basket.
02 · Read regimes, not daysSingle days are noisy: weekends, drops and one big slab all move a line. The useful signal is the direction over weeks, which is why every line is rebased to 100 at the window start rather than shown in its own units.
03 · Why psa 10 swingsGraded is a far thinner sample than raw: a couple of hundred sales a day against thousands. A quiet week in high-value slabs reads as a collapse in percentage terms without the graded market having changed much at all.
04 · Share of salesDollars traded in that market as a share of the markets where we measure activity at all. Sealed is left out of both the share and the total: we track its price, not its sold units, and counting it as zero would understate every other share.