Where every number on this site comes from, and why you can trust it
Raw is an ungraded card, the way it comes out of a pack. Raw prices are an average across conditions, so a sharp copy can sell above it and a worn one below it.
PSA 10 is a card graded Gem Mint 10 by PSA, the top grade. It is far rarer than a raw copy, which is why it often costs many times more.
Sealed is unopened product: booster boxes, Elite Trainer Boxes, packs and collections.
Every morning we read the public prices on PriceCharting, which collects completed sales from eBay, TCGplayer, Goldin, Fanatics, Heritage and other marketplaces. A price is what cards actually sold for, not what sellers are asking.
We track 2,231 cards and products. We never buy or sell cards, and nobody pays us to feature one.
Each card's recent sales are logged and checked before they count. We leave out:
Lots and odd items: bundles, proxies, customs, reprints and jumbo cards. They aren't the card itself.
Wrong grade: a graded slab sold in the raw list, or a PSA 9 in the PSA 10 list.
Outliers: a sale more than 2.5 times or less than 0.4 times what the card typically sold for around the same time (within 6 months). One strange sale (a typo, an unpaid auction, a shill bid) shouldn't move a card's price for everyone.
Reviewed sales: each morning we personally look over the biggest sales and anything flagged, and can keep or exclude them. A record sale that checks out stays in.
A card is Verified when it has at least 3 clean sales in the last 90 days. Right now 1,389 of the 1,447 cards with a sales log qualify.
Why it matters: a card that sells once a year can show a 300% "move" from a single sale. Verified cards trade often enough that their price reflects the market, so only they appear in the Movers lists and indexes.
Cards get a sales log as we read their full sales page, about once a week each, so new cards may take a week to show their status.
An index adds up the raw price of every verified card in a group, like a stock index for one corner of the hobby. If the index is up 10%, the cards in it are worth 10% more together.
Bigger cards move the index more, the same way bigger companies move the S&P 500. For each time range, only cards with a price across the whole range are counted, so a newly added card can't make the chart jump.
There are 19 indexes today. Tap any of them on the home page for its chart and cards.
A 1-month move compares today's price with the card's price a month ago. One-year moves work the same way.
Moves above +300% or below -80% in a month are kept off the Movers lists and the ticker. They are almost always one odd sale or a data hiccup, not a real market move.
Prices update every morning around 6:30 to 7:00 AM Pacific. Sales logs refresh about once a week per card.
What's selling ranks cards by how often they sell (sales per month), from PriceCharting's sales volume.
Prices are a guide, not a quote. Raw condition varies a lot, and thinly traded cards can sell well above or below their listed price.
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