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Latest · Grading economics
EX Era PSA 10 Gem Rates: 519 Cards Measured
Across 519 EX-era cards with 100 or more PSA submissions the median gem rate is 9.4%, and it falls as the card gets dearer: Gold Stars gem at 3.8%.
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| # | Card | Move 7d | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Mew ex30th Celebration · #158 | Move 7d−93.9% | Price$102 |
| 2 |  | Rayquaza EX30th Classic Collection · #016 | Move 7d−90.8% | Price$31.68 |
| 3 |  | Mewtwo ex30th Celebration · #157 | Move 7d−90.6% | Price$72.06 |
| 4 |  | Alolan Meowth30th Celebration · #139 | Move 7d−85.1% | Price$11.88 |
| 5 |  | Hisuian Zorua30th Celebration · #145 | Move 7d−82.3% | Price$11.23 |
| # | Card | Move 7d | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | TyranitarMysterious Treasures · #17 | Move 7d+59.3% | Price$42.01 |
| # | Card | PSA 10 med | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Gengar EXPhantom Forces · #114 | PSA 10 med$30,895 | Price$768 |
| 2 |  | Suicune exTeam Magma vs Team Aqua · #94 | PSA 10 med$26,912 | Price$676 |
| 3 |  | Vaporeon ☆Power Keepers · #102 | PSA 10 med$24,129 | Price$1,400 |
| 4 |  | Shining CharizardNeo Destiny · #107 | PSA 10 med$23,900 | Price$1,495 |
| 5 |  | Blaine's CharizardGym Challenge · #2 | PSA 10 med$23,276 | Price$599 |
| # | Card | Gem rate | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | EeveeWizards Black Star Promos · #11 | Gem rate0.3% | Price$52.54 |
| 2 |  | LaprasFossil · #10 | Gem rate0.4% | Price$29.61 |
| 3 |  | CharizardLegendary Collection · #3 | Gem rate0.5% | Price$900 |
| 4 |  | VileplumeJungle · #15 | Gem rate1.0% | Price$37.62 |
| 5 |  | Charizard δCrystal Guardians · #4 | Gem rate1.4% | Price$809 |
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206 findings
Set economics
Team Rocket Returns Card Prices: All 111
41.2%of the set in one cardSet economics
Unseen Forces Card Prices: All 117 Cards
$11,209.45summed ask across 117 cardsSet economics
Expedition Base Set Card Prices: All 165
165 of 165cards carrying a priceSet economics
EX Era Pokémon Cards Value: All 1,694 Cards
1,694English cards in the sixteen EX-era setsQuant research
What Are POP Series Pokemon Cards Worth?
$5,337.93all nine POP Series sets, summed askQuant research
What Are McDonald's Pokemon Cards Worth?
$4,862.21every McDonald's card we price, summedQuant research
Are Pokemon Black Star Promos Worth Anything?
$8.30median Black Star Promo askQuant research
Which Neo Set Holds Its Value?
$10,269.47Neo Destiny, summed ask over 113 priced cardsQuant research
Cheapest Way to Own a Gold Star Pokemon Card
27English Gold Star cardsQuant research
Vintage Japanese Pokemon Card Prices, Set by Set
0.988Japanese Expansion Pack over English Base SetQuant research
Diamond & Pearl Era Card Prices: 20 Sets
339 vs 7cards with a PSA 9 sold median and no PSA 10, against the reverseQuant research
Sun & Moon Era Card Prices: All 17 Sets
$45,018.97summed ask across 2,659 priced cardsQuant research
Japanese Promo Card Prices: 21 Families Counted
$72,051.63summed ask across 1,244 priced promosQuant research
Japanese 151 vs English 151: Prices Compared
193 of 207English cards with a resolved Japanese twinQuant research
Japanese vs English Pokemon Cards, By the Numbers
32,405 to 37,948distinct Japanese rowsQuant research
Who Draws Pokemon Cards? 399 Names, Counted
399distinct illustrator creditsQuant research
How Many Printings Does a Pokemon Card Have?
34,433separately priced printingsQuant research
Pokemon Card Rarity Chart: What Each Tier Is Worth
37distinct values in the rarity fieldQuant research
How Many Pokemon Cards Are There? A Real Count
63,600catalog rowsCard study
Alakazam ex 201/165 Value: the PSA 9 Sells for Less
$72.00PSA 9 sold median, 285 verified salesCard study
Magikarp & Wailord GX 161/181: $882 and 77 Comps
$882.13raw ask, third dearest of 196 Team Up cardsCard study
M Charizard EX 101/108 Evolutions: Price and Pop
$617.50PSA 10 sold median, 356 verified salesCard study
Special Delivery Charizard Value: a 14% Gem Rate
13.96%lifetime gem rate, 4,546 tens of 32,567Card study
Mewtwo & Mew GX SM191 Value: 638 PSA 10 Sales
$2,125.00PSA 10 sold median, 638 verified salesQuant research
Banned Pokémon Card Art: What Censorship Cost
605name-matched English and Japanese pairsMarket structure
Banned Pokémon Cards: Does a Ban Change the Price?
27cards on the Play! Pokémon banned listSet economics
What a Reprint Does to the Original Card
1.13xmedian original over same-tier reprintQuant research
Is a Pokémon Set Index Just Its Chase Cards?
57.2%median share of set value held by the top five cardsSet economics
Does Set Size Change What a Pokémon Set Is Worth?
-0.402rank correlation, printed size against median card priceSet economics
Pokémon Set Value by Era: 142 Sets Measured
$2,357median set value, WotC era 1999 to 2003Quant research
Do Pokémon Sets Gain Value With Age? 100 Sets
+190.3%median move, sets aged 10 to 15 yearsQuant research
Pokemon Pull Rates by Set: What Is Published
31 of 110English booster-selling sets with published pull ratesMarket structure
Sealed vs Singles: Which Price Moves More?
13.6%median share of day-to-day steps that moved, on both tapesInvestment research
Do Sealed Pokemon Boxes Go Up in Value?
0.824rank correlation, years since release against box askQuant research
Booster Box Expected Value Has Error Bars
0.380median contents value as a share of the box askMarket structure
The Cheapest Way to Buy Pokemon Packs, Measured
271of 2,358 sealed SKUs can be priced per packQuant research
How Long Do You Have to Hold a Pokemon Card?
14.94%gross move needed to break evenMethodology
Four Ways to Index the Same Pokemon Cards
9.72index points of spreadQuant research
How Far Do Pokemon Cards Fall? A Drawdown Census
22.48%median maximum drawdownQuant research
How Concentrated Is the Pokemon Card Market?
2.14%of priced cards hold half the market's valueQuant research
What Predicts a Pokemon Card's Return?
41,359cards in the broad cross-sectionSet economics
Which Set Has the Most $100 Pokémon Cards?
42Skyridge, the most of 129 setsLiquidity
14,466 Cards With a Price and No Sale
10,381cards asking $1 or more, every one of them probedGrading economics
The PSA 10 Premium, Ranked Across 90 Sets
120.98xFossil, the highest median multiple of 90 setsSet economics
One Card, 60% of a Set: Chase Share in 129 Sets
60.6%Giratina V's share of Lost OriginSet economics
Which Pokémon Sets Are Mostly Bulk? 129 Ranked
82.6%Journey Together, the most bulk-heavy of 129 setsGrading economics
Above $1,000, the PSA 9 Is the Grade That Trades
33.41%cards with more recorded PSA 9 sales than PSA 10 salesCatalog structure
The Chase Card Is a Secret Rare 61% of the Time
95 of 95sets where the median card past the total out-asks the median card inside itGrading economics
Hard-to-Grade Cards Cost More, Until 2020
$44.43 vs $3.84median raw ask, sub-10% gem rate against the 25% to 40% bandGrading economics
A CGC 10 Sells for 42.50% of a PSA 10
42.50%median CGC 10 sold median over PSA 10 sold medianGrading economics
Is a PSA 9 Half a PSA 10? On 85% of Cards, No
24.54%median PSA 9 sold median over PSA 10 sold medianQuant research
Starter Pokemon Cards, Nine Generations Ranked
5.14xKanto starters and finals against their own cohortsGrading economics
Every Charizard's PSA 10 Premium, Ranked
82Charizard printings with both a raw ask and a PSA 10 sold medianGrading economics
Every Eeveelution Ranked, Raw and Graded
$73.03median Umbreon ask, highest of the eight EeveelutionsQuant research
Does Reprinting a Pokemon Cost It Anything?
+0.425rank correlation, printings against cohort premiumQuant research
The Species Premium: What a Pokemon Name Is Worth
302species ranked against their own cohortsMarket structure
Why Pokémon Card Prices Differ by Source
5.77xtypical gap between the highest and lowest honest priceData forensics
How to Tell a Pokémon Card Price Is Stale
78.5%of quote moves had no new verified sale behind themData forensics
How Many Pokémon Cards Have a Real Market?
73.5%of priced entries carry no recorded saleMarket structure
Pokémon Card Ask vs Sold Price, Measured
1.39xtypical raw sold median over the quoted askMethodology
How Many Sales Does a Pokémon Card Price Need?
8verified sales behind the median sold medianGrading economics
What Share of Cards Get a PSA 10?
49.97%of all 22,274,556 slabs are tensData forensics
How Fast Do PSA Populations Actually Grow?
24.93%of 2,916 registries added nothingQuant research
Does a Big PSA Population Lower the Price?
-0.46registry size against the PSA 10 premiumGrading economics
Is Grading Pokémon Cards Worth It? 2,633 Answers
90.7%of 2,633 cards carry a positive expected valueGrading economics
How Much a PSA 10 Adds, Across 8,676 Cards
12.2xmedian PSA 10 sold median over raw askAnalysis
The Most Expensive Pokémon Cards Right Now
$4,500.00dearest raw ask in the English catalogueMarket structure
Which Pokémon Has the Most Valuable Cards?
1,025Pokémon with at least one priced English cardInvestment research
Are Pokémon Cards a Good Investment?
+90.1%median 20-month change, deepest tapeSet economics
Base Set Pokémon Card Price Guide: All 102 Cards
$2,218.19one near-mint copy of every priced cardBuyer's guide
How Much Is a Charizard Card Worth?
114English Charizard printings we price dailyQuant research
Ten Sets, Measured From the Day They Actually Went On Sale
7 of 10sets that peaked within ten days of releaseData forensics
Five Cards in Six Trade on a Single Listing
83.5%of priced lines where market equals the cheapest listing exactlyQuant research
The Same Card, Two Slabs: a PSA 10 Is Worth 2.42 Times a CGC 10
2.42xmedian PSA 10 against CGC 10Quant research
Fifteen Tens From 12,323 Tries: the Cards PSA Almost Never Gems
0.08%gem rate of the hardest English card we priceQuant research
If You Had to Buy One Set Right Now
Quant research
Destined Rivals Costs 3.7x Journey Together, and It Is Not Because It Is More Top-Heavy
3.66xDestined Rivals against Journey Together, whole setQuant research
Destined Rivals Is 7.8% Below Its Release Price, and It Was 10% Cheaper in January
-7.8%set value against its release priceMarket structure
Played in 91% of Decks, Worth 24 Cents
+0.248rank correlation, play rate vs cheapest printData forensics
The Frozen Catalog: 7,795 Cards Held Exactly One Price for Twenty-One Straight Days
994,132daily price readings recordedMethodology
The Refusal Census: We Scored 25,471 Cards and Declined to Rate 22,039 of Them
25,471cards scored on September 19, 2026Data forensics
Japanese Cards Are Cheaper, and Also Dearer. Which One Depends Entirely on the Price
1,373cards priced on both sides of the language lineQuant research
We Put a Price Target on the Whole Book. It Refused Four Cards in Five
3,228cards the model will put a number onData forensics
Easy Grades Are Cheap Grades: the PSA 10 Premium Falls From 25x to 4x
24.7xmedian PSA 10 multiple in the under-10% gem bandMarket structure
A 191-Card Set Nobody Printed: the Delta Species Run
191English delta species cards we priceMethodology
The Numbers We Do Not Print: 4,250 Withheld Populations
24,200registry lines we trackData forensics
Three Weeks of 30th Celebration Prices, and Not One Recorded Sale
0recorded sales across the whole setData forensics
A Mew That Went On Sale Today Has Had Six Prices, and None of Them Is a Sale
$1,158.37Mew ex 158/128, the provider's latest readingData forensics
Nobody Has Published Odds for 30th Celebration, and the Numbers Filling the Gap Disagree by 63% on the Only Tier That Matters
0official odds published for this setMarket structure
The Float: 1.1 Million Copies on the Shelf, a $17.5 Million Shelf Price, and the $3,500 Card With Nobody Selling It
95median active listings per cardData forensics
Where the New Slabs Go: 339,436 PSA Submissions in a Month, 42% of Them Japanese, and the Cards Being Graded Fastest Are Gemming Less
339,436PSA slabs added across 3,248 tracked linesMarket report
Breadth: The Index Rose 4.8% in Sixteen Days, 120 of 156 Sets Rose With It, and the 300 Most Valuable Cards Did Not Move
37.7% / 25.5%English cards up more than 2% / down more than 2%Analysis
Will the Pokémon Market Crash? Eight Readings From Our Own Tape, and the One Thing It Cannot Tell You
+135%moonstone Index since 2025-03-17Buyer's guide
The Commons That Are Not Bulk: 315 Set Commons Are Worth $5 or More, and Every Skyridge Common Is One of Them
$0.24median English set commonData forensics
The Least Graded Cards in Pokemon: Thin Registries Outran Deep Ones in Every Price Band Above $5 This Year
12,980priced registry lines under 100 PSA slabsData forensics
Hard to Gem: 22.8 Million PSA Slabs Say the Decade Decides, Texture Helps, and the PSA 10 Premium Runs the Other Way
49.5%of all 22.8 million slabs are PSA 10sQuant research
The Drawdown Book: Among $5 Cards, Two in Three Sit Within 5% of Their 18-Month High, and Buying the Dip Trailed Buying Anything for a Quarter
22.6%median deepest drawdown, all 2,417 cardsData forensics
The Most Graded Cards in Pokemon: a Japanese Promo Pikachu Has 329,337 PSA Slabs and Nothing Else Is Close
29,412,136PSA slabs across the provider lines we snapshotData forensics
We Remeasured First Edition With Four Times the Data. The Premium Held. The Fine Print Did Not.
838same-day pairs, up from 195Data forensics
The Reverse Holo Beats the Holo on Penny Cards and Loses Where the Money Is
1.21xmedian reverse against the holoData forensics
The $0.69 Dark Ampharos and the $899.99 Zapdos: Two Lies on One Shelf
18holo-only cards carrying a plain Normal rowMarket structure
Launch, Mania, Markdown: the Mega Era on Our Own Tape
-55.5%Mega Hyper Rare Darkrai ex since its July 15 debutSet economics
The Big Hit Went From One Per Box to One Every Third Box
1 in 32SIR rate, 2023 setsSet economics
Pulling the Chase Costs 6x to 86x More Than Buying It
6.3xthe cheapest rip tax on the boardQuant research
The Gem Rate Curve: 15.7 Million PSA Submissions, and the Era Nobody Expects to Be Hardest
15,708,231PSA submissions in the datasetQuant research
Momentum Does Not Persist in Pokemon Cards: 65,685 Observations Say So
65,685point-in-time observationsSet economics
The Trainer Box That Costs More Than Its Booster Box
0.39xmedian ETB price, against its set's booster boxQuant research
Does Momentum Work in Pokémon Cards? 28,288 Observations Say Yes, With a Catch
28,288point-in-time observationsSet economics
The Same Pack Costs 40% More If You Buy Six of Them
1.40xmedian bundle cost per pack, against a boxData forensics
In 41 of 48 Sets, the Best Card Costs Less Than the Box You Would Open to Find It
41 of 48sets where the chase card costs less than the boxGrading economics
Japanese Registries Are Twice as Deep, Their Slabs Trade a Third as Often, and the Gem Premium Is Flatter
Data integrity
Twelve Percent of the Sold Record Is Thrown Away, and the Worst of It Is Where the Cheap Slabs Live
12.07%of all candidate comps rejectedSet economics
The Set Inside the Set: a 70-Card Annex Holding 90% of the Release's Value
Data forensics
First Edition Is Worth 2.63x, and One English Card in Twelve Is Published at the Wrong Printing
2.63xmedian 1st Edition against UnlimitedData forensics
The Reverse Holo Is Worth Double the Card It Copies, and 48x in Legendary Collection
2.03xmedian reverse holo against its base printingData forensics
Painter or Pokemon: the Artist Predicts 14% of a Card's Rank, the Creature Predicts 40%
0.14artist out-of-sample R2, on the shared test rowsGrading economics
TAG Now Out-Trades Beckett, Its 10 Prices at PSA Parity, and a BGS 10 Beats Both
Grading economics
The Basement of the Registry: at PSA 7, the Slab Stops Being Worth More Than the Card
10.89xmedian PSA 10 against the raw priceData forensics
The Frozen Tape: 38% of Card Prices Are Last Week's Price
37.5%of week-apart observations are identicalData forensics
Nothing Moves Together: A Year of Weekly Prices Finds No Pokémon Market Factor
0.026average pairwise weekly correlationAnalysis
The Fee Is a Fixed Cost: A PSA 9 Pays the Grading Bill on One Card in Three
2.03xmedian PSA 9 median over raw priceMethodology
The Same Card, the Same Grade, Four Times the Price
4.00xmedian high-to-low ratio, PSA 10Data forensics
The 10,872 Cards That Look Like Other Cards
10,872cards sharing a name with a set-mateData forensics
Japan Prices the Same Cards on a Flatter Ladder
0.732elasticity of the JP price to the EN priceInvestment research
What Completing a Set Actually Costs, and Why It Is Two Purchases
$909,227one of every priced row in the dumpInvestment research
260,000 Simulated Boxes: Not One Set Pays for Its Own Box
26 / 0sets simulated / sets that clear their box priceAnalysis
Ninety Percent of Decks, Twenty-Six Cents: The Game and the Market Are Different Economies
90.1%of decks ran Boss's OrdersData forensics
The Casting Premium: A Charizard's Advantage Is Decided Before the Card Is Printed
35.4%of ordinary-league rank explained by species aloneMethodology
The Book at Thirty Days: Every Position We Own, Marked, Including the Pair We Had to Suspend
-2.70%mean return, 16 live marksAnalysis
The Gate Is the Market: 316 Desk Notes and a 62-Call Machine Converge on One Number
-0.754correlation, gem rate vs machine upsideData forensics
The Half Point: A BGS 9.5 Is Worth More Than a CGC 10, and the Tape Now Proves It
53.6%BGS 9.5 as a share of PSA 10Data forensics
The Multiple Ladder: A Gem Premium Is Mostly a Statement About the Price Tag
306cards priced on both sidesPrediction
Ninety Days to Our Own Grave or Trophy: 466 Dated Calls Are Now on the Books
466dated calls on the booksMethodology
Seven Cards We Refused to Rate
7refusals collected hereAnalysis
The First Negative Stamp: The Card You Lose Money Grading Even When It Works
31PSA 10s in existenceMarket structure
The Ask Is Lying to You: What Raw Listing Prices Get Wrong by Construction
55 of 152deep-tape cards where the nine sells under the raw askData forensics
The Eight-to-One Stamp: What a CGC 10 Is Actually Worth in PSA Terms
8.07xEntei PSA 10 vs CGC 10Investment research
The Thirtieth Anniversary Slate: What the 25th Already Priced In
Sep 1630th Celebration, worldwideAnalysis
Bulk's Hidden Floor: A Quarter Century Later, the Worst WotC Cards Are Worth 33x the Worst Modern Ones
Data forensics
The Gem Rate Drift: PSA Is Getting Stricter, and We Can Prove It Card by Card
62.0%average lifetime gem rateInvestment research
The Registry Is Closed: Dark Charizard and What Happens When Demand Meets a Finished Population
+0.35%/wkregistry growthInvestment research
The $7,500 Card That Never Trades: Crystal Kingdra and the Illusion of the Trophy Price
Data forensics
PSA Changed Its Mind About the Felt Hat: The Van Gogh Pikachu's Gem Rate Fell by Half
42.9%lifetime gem rateData forensics
Anatomy of a Mania, Recorded Live: Mega Charizard X ex Is the Fastest Tape We Have Ever Tracked
+730/wkregistry growthInvestment research
The Umbreon Standard: One Card, Six Datasets, and Everything the Modern Market Believes
Buyer's guide
Same Picture, Ten Times the Price: A Buyer's Guide to the Twins Our Scanner Untangles
Data forensics
Everyone Grades the Freebies: MEP Black Star Promos and the Deepest Registries in the Game
Analysis
The Handout Grails: Wizards Black Star Promos and the Cards Nobody Paid For
Analysis
Prismatic Evolutions vs Its Own Arithmetic: The Most Hyped Set of the Era Is Losing to Its Registry
21,003Umbreon ex PSA popAnalysis
151 Proved the 90-Day Rule Twice: The Set That Crashed, Doubled, and Got Harder to Gem
Analysis
The Set That Ate the Modern Market: Evolving Skies, Five Years On
$2,445booster box, liveMethodology
The Autopsy: Every Weekly Buys Pick That Went Wrong
every pickstill visible in the ledgerInvestment research
The Same Card, Two Oceans Apart: JP vs EN Pricing
Methodology
The Twin Problem: The Cards That Fool Every Scanner
Investment research
The Lottery Ticket Index: Where a $4.73 Pack Chases a $288 Card
Analysis
Print-Run Archaeology: What Registry Depth Says About How Much Was Actually Printed
Data forensics
The Grading Throughput Index: 44,000 New Slabs a Week, and Half of Them Are Tens
82,723new slabs recordedData forensics
The Liquidity Ledger: The Market's Hottest Slabs Trade 40 Times a Week. Its Trophies Trade Four Times a Year.
175card-grade pairs in the ledgerInvestment research
Buy This, Not That: Grail Cards and Their High-Growth Understudies
Buyer's guide
Reading a Display Case: A Field Guide to Shop Prices
Methodology
We Grade Our Own Homework: Inside the Weekly Buys Ledger
Investment research
What 56,000 Cards Say About How Sets Hold Value
Market structure
The Sealed Freeze of 2026: 651 Products, Six Gainers
651sealed products with a 30d change, $100-$550Methodology
How Many Sales Is a Price? A Census of Our Own Numbers
94PSA 10 price series publishedBuyer's guide
Which Market Price? The Same Card Has Three Honest Numbers
Market structure
Sellers Say, Pixels Decide: What 1,350 Listings Taught Us
~1,350listings adjudicated by handInvestment research
The $479 Lie: How Mixed Printings Corrupt Vintage Prices
$479.50Zapdos PSA 9, mixed medianData forensics
What the Scanner Sees: How We Taught a Camera to Outvote the Seller
66.7%binder-page accuracy when we started the loopBuyer's guide
The Condition Tax: LP Costs You a Quarter, Damaged Costs You Two-Thirds
76.5%LP, median share of NM priceMarket report
Does Pokémon Have a Season? Nineteen Months of Index Tape Says: Not Yet
Analysis
Where the Money Sleeps: 1% of Cards Hold 45% of the Market's Value
45.4%of value in the top 1% of cardsInvestment research
Grading ROI, Computed Honestly: The Registry Already Ran Your Experiment
Investment research
The PSA 9 Discount Curve: Vintage 9s Cost 18 Cents on the Dollar, Modern 9s Cost 38
Data forensics
The Population Growth Tax: Watching the Registry Eat the Premium in Real Time
+6.9% popfast growers, avg registry growthIndex launch
Japan-Only: We Built an Index for Japanese-Exclusive Cards. Here Is What It Says.
104.83JP-Exclusives 25, August 19, 2026Prediction
The Five Grails of 2031: What the Market Will Chase Five Years From Now
+78.3%Umbreon VMAX alt, 12-month moveBuyer's guide
The Best Pikachu Cards to Buy Right Now
21recent sales of the SIRBuyer's guide
The Best Snorlax Cards to Buy Right Now
$342Jungle holo, 1st Edition askMarket structure
The Daily Tape: Which Pokémon Cards Actually Sell Every Single Day
6,041recorded sales in 30 daysAnalysis
The Nickname Premium: Do Cards Like Moonbreon Actually Outperform?
+167%Rayquaza V Alt, the best alt art of the windowAnalysis
The Summer Dip Is Real. Your Index Says Otherwise. Both Are True.
−41.6%Chaos Rising, June 1 to its July 18 readingAnalysis
The First 90 Days: When to Buy Into a New Set
Day 40-90where the bottom lands in every dipping setAnalysis
The Grading Tax: When a PSA 10 Is Worth It, and When Grading Destroys Value
9 of 11modern chase cards whose PSA 9 median sits BELOW the raw priceAnalysis
The Art Floor: What 480 Price Histories Say About Every Foil and Rarity Tier
+77%IR median over 18 months, best of every tierAnalysis
The $100 Million Card: Ranking Pokémon's Biggest PSA Market Caps
$107MUmbreon VMAX Alt graded cap, the largest of the fourteen we measuredInvestment research
The Scarcity Tax: Three Years of SIR vs IR Returns
+76%median IR return over the measured windowMarket research
The Summer Dip on Trial: What the Data Actually Shows
+6.6%median tracked-card move, summer 2026Guides
Ten Rules for the New Pokémon Investor
Data forensics
The $15 Flood: Anatomy of a Fake Market
234identical $15 "sales"Investment research
The Grading Frontier: The 10 Pays, the 9 Decides
106 / 219cards where a NINE loses moneyInvestment research
Rip or Hold? 400 Simulated Packs Settle the Sealed Debate
$1.25the median pack, pricedMarket research
Population Giants: What 77,674 PSA 10s Do to a Price
77,674largest PSA 10 population trackedMarket report
State of the Pokémon Market: August 2026
249.8Market index · Aug 2, 2026Investment research
The Chase-Card Halo: Does a New Set Lift the Old Prints of Its Star?
+26%Old Zekrom/Reshiram prints, announce → releaseInvestment research
The Waifu Tax: Is Pokémon's Most Whispered-About Premium Actually Real?
3.3×female ÷ male median: SM-era full artsMarket structure
The Stamp Tax: What a Pokémon Center Logo Is Actually Worth
10.2×median stamped ÷ plain priceIllustrator spotlight
Illustrator Spotlight: Mitsuhiro Arita, the Man Who Painted the Hobby
$22,952Arita index (top 25 cards)Market structure
The Launch Curve: What Chase Cards Actually Do After Release Day
−15% / −32% / −44%cohort median at day 30 / 180 / troughMarket structure
The Print Clock: When Pokémon Sets Stop Printing, and How to Read It
~10B/yrcards printed at stated max capacityInvestment research
Ash's Original Team as an Investment Portfolio
$15,502the team in PSA 10Investment research
Cute vs. Strong: Which Pokémon Actually Pay?
155k vs 109krecorded eBay sales, strong vs cuteMarket structure
The Velocity Report: What Actually Sells, and Why the Most-Traded Cards Made the Least Money
9,261cards with recorded eBay salesInvestment research
Where Money Went to Die: The Worst Pokémon Investments
−91%worst peak-to-now singleMonthly review
The Month in Pokémon: Where the Money Went in July 2026
+2.4%median raw singleMarket structure
The Grade Ladder: What PSA Populations Actually Say About Price
520cards pricedInvestment research