Pokémon card investment intelligence
Signals, not tips.
Price trackers tell you what a card sold for. CardGameInsight joins that price with how many PSA 10s exist, what a box actually pulls, what sealed product cost at retail and what the same card asks for in another market and what a graded copy sells for against a raw one — seven screens, each with its method and its biases written on the page. None of them says buy. They say where to look.
- Cards with an observed market price
- 8,291 / 8,960
- Cards with a dated PSA population read
- 305
- Cards with a Swedish market read
- 7,841
- Sealed products priced
- 718
- Observed price points
- 844,673
The seven screens
In order of how hard each one is to get anywhere else.
01
nightlyPop-adjusted value
Within an era, which PSA 10s trade cheap for how scarce they are?
ln(price) on ln(population), per era. Ranked by residual.
02
nightlyDrawdown vs pop
Which cards are 30%+ off their high while the supply of PSA 10s did not grow?
Observed daily history for the window high; population change between dated reads. Supply column fills in with the second read.
03
nightlyChase concentration
How much of a set's value sits in its top three cards?
Top-3 share and HHI over every card's observed value. A fragility score for sealed product.
04
nightlyRegion spread
Same card, Tradera (Sweden) vs TCGplayer (US). Is there a gap?
Median of matching Swedish asks in USD at the ECB rate over the US near-mint market. Gross gap, before postage and tax, which the page says rather than assumes.
05
nightlyDiscontinued watch
Which out-of-print sealed products still sit near MSRP?
Era ended = out of print. Unopened price over a cited MSRP; products without a citable MSRP listed unranked.
06
nightlyBox EV
What is a box worth opened, at today's prices and published pull rates?
Per-card pull odds from TCGplayer's opening samples × observed card values, summed per pack. Three sets have published samples.
07
nightlyGrading ratio
What does a PSA 8, 9 or 10 sell for, as a multiple of the raw near-mint price?
eBay sold-by-grade averages over the TCGplayer near-mint market, per grade. Gross multiples, before grading fees, which the page says rather than assumes.
How to read a signal
01
Observed beats modelled
Every number is a dated read from a named source, or it is badged modelled and carries no weight. Nothing observed is ever overwritten; history accumulates.
02
The method is on the page
Each screen states the formula, the inputs, the sample and the biases before the ranking. A screen that cannot yet compute a column says so instead of guessing.
03
No score, no tip
There is no composite rating and no buy or sell call. Three observations sit side by side on a card and the reader draws the conclusion.
Sources: TCGplayer market prices and eBay graded sales via PokemonPriceTracker, PSA populations read from BetterPop, pull rates from TCGplayer's published opening samples, Swedish asks from Tradera's public API, exchange rates from the European Central Bank. Retail prices only where a page states them. Every row on every screen links to where its number came from.
Chase cards
The ten most valuable chase cards by observed raw market value, highest first.
Methodology and notes
Where the reasoning behind the screens is written up.
30th Celebration, five weeks in: three Mew hold 95% of the set, PSA has graded 711 copies, and the art behind it
The follow-up to the nine-days-in note. Independent opening counts agree with TCGplayer's odds on the main tiers and still cannot pin down the RGB Mew; PSA's count went from 125 in BetterPop's 8 October build to 711, 261 of them RGB Mew, which come back PSA 10 far less often than the rest; a pack's contents are worth 57% of its $10.83 price. Plus what The Pokémon Company chose for the art, and the stories of the first five weeks.
Oct 21, 2026 · 10 min
Grading ratio: what a PSA 8, 9 or 10 sells for against a raw copy, and what the multiple leaves out
Screen 7 divides each card's eBay PSA 8, 9 and 10 sales by its raw near-mint price. On 19 October 2026, over cards at $10 or more raw, the median PSA 10 sold for 6.5 times raw (867 cards), and a PSA 8 averaged below raw on 261 of 728.
Oct 19, 2026 · 6 min
Ascended Heroes: every tracked card got cheaper in a month, and every PSA 10 count grew
Between the 9 September and 8 October population builds, the twelve Ascended Heroes cards this site tracks fell a median 18.4% at TCGplayer market while their PSA 10 counts rose a median 18.4%. Across all 302 tracked cards the median count grew 0.9%, and the ten sets released before 2012 did not move at all.
Oct 13, 2026 · 6 min