Market movers.

Sold-price movers · from real sales, not listings

Cards whose actual closed sales moved: the last 30 days of sold prices against the 90-day baseline, with the sale counts behind each figure. Listing prices can drift on hope — these numbers cleared.

Raw (ungraded)

PSA 10

What the board is showing right now

On the 7d view 7 gainers and 9 fallers clear the default bar. The top gainer is Sceptile ex (Team Magma vs Team Aqua), $221.34 to $329.80, +49.0%, with 12 completed sales in 90 days. The top faller is Magnemite (Neo Discovery), $67.97 to $33.99, -50.0%, with 0 completed sales in 90 days. 5 of the 16 rows have at least three completed sales behind them, so most of this list is listing movement with thin sale evidence — read the percentages as leads to check, not as settled prices.

The 30-day view is empty for every card at the moment: CardTrack's own 30-day trend is withheld sitewide while a pricing-basis change settles, because a fair like-for-like comparison against a price computed the old way is not possible. The 7-day and 90-day views are a vendor's window on its own series and are unaffected, and the market today page still carries the daily index.

On the 90d view 4 gainers and 18 fallers clear the default bar. The top gainer is Alakazam E4 LV.X (Rising Rivals), $93.38 to $313.99, +236.3%, with 12 completed sales in 90 days. The top faller is Meowth ex (Perfect Order), $160.90 to $100.00, -37.9%, with 12 completed sales in 90 days. 3 of the 22 rows have at least three completed sales behind them, so most of this list is listing movement with thin sale evidence — read the percentages as leads to check, not as settled prices. Ascended Heroes supplies 8 of the rows, which usually means a set-wide repricing rather than 8 separate stories.

Over one year, Team Magma's Groudon (Team Magma vs Team Aqua) leads the gainers at +2297.6%, now $131.39, and Pheromosa (SM Black Star Promos) is the steepest faller at -79.6%; 12 gainers and 12 fallers survive the recompute against today's price. Over three years, Gengar LV.X (Arceus) leads the gainers at +3924.4%, now $825.00, and Electrode (Base) is the steepest faller at -81.5%; 12 gainers and 12 fallers survive the recompute against today's price. Those long windows use raw PriceCharting sale prices for the starting point, so they measure a different thing from the vendor windows above and should not be chained to them; the market report puts the same long-run moves beside the index they came from.

How to read the board

Three windows, two sources. The 30-day figure is CardTrack's own trend on the blended near-mint price printed on the card page, so a 30-day row and the page it links to always agree. The 7-day and 90-day figures come from a vendor's window on its own near-mint series; because that vendor may track a different printing, the row shows CardTrack's current price, recomputes the move against it, and drops any baked row whose price disagrees with ours by more than about a third.

Every row carries the evidence for its move: the start and end price, the dollar size of the change, how many completed sales the card has recorded in the last 90 days, and a liquidity phrase built from that count. A move with twenty sales behind it is a market move; a move with none is one listing changing, and the row says which. Rows also link to the card page, where the full price history and the sold comps sit.

The default view asks for a current price of at least $25 and a move of at least $10, with no minimum on sales. On the 30-day view it also treats anything beyond −95% or +200% as bad data rather than a price change; the 7-day and 90-day rows are held to the price coherence check instead, so a larger vendor-window move can appear there. Within the rows that qualify, gainers and fallers are ranked by the size of the move discounted for thin evidence, so a card with many sales keeps its full percentage and a card with none is weighted down; the chips change the floors, not the ranking rule, and the choice is written into the URL so it can be shared.

Why Pokémon cards go up or down in value

Supply is the first thing to check on any mover. A card reprinted in a later set, a promo tin or a special collection gains copies overnight, and the older printing usually softens even when it is the one collectors prefer; a 1st Edition or other vintage card's print run is fixed, so its supply only ever shrinks as copies are graded, damaged or put away. A rising card from a set still in print is competing with new packs; a rising card from a set that finished printing years ago is not.

Demand comes from three overlapping groups. Players buy what wins, so a card that becomes a staple of the Standard format climbs and one that rotates out of it loses that buyer entirely; collectors chase particular Pokémon, artists and rarities, which is why a Charizard, an Eevee evolution or an illustration rare moves on its own logic; and graders buy raw copies to submit, which lifts the raw price of any card whose PSA 10 fetches a strong premium. When two of those groups want the same card at once, the moves on this page get large.

Some moves are mechanics rather than markets. A thinly traded card's price is a median of a handful of sales, so one unusual sale can shift it by half; a card whose first real sale replaces a placeholder price looks like a rocket; a price that changed printings looks like a crash. The price floor, the plausibility bounds and the coherence check exist to keep those out of the list, and the sales count on each row — or the card value checker for any card not on it — is how you check what remains.

Listing movers, sold movers and the long windows

The board and the 1- and 3-year lists rank on market prices — a blended near-mint figure or a vendor's series — because that is what updates daily. The sold-price movers section is different in kind: it compares each card's median completed sale over the last 30 days with its median over 90, on real recorded sales only, and prints how many of those sales are recent. It is the slowest list on the page and the hardest to fool; when a card is at the top of both, the move is real.

The 1-year and 3-year lists take the starting price from a periodic bake of PriceCharting's raw sale history and the ending price from the catalogue today (how CardTrack prices cards). Twelve rows a side are shown, re-sorted on the recomputed move, and a card whose move has reversed since the bake drops out rather than sitting in the wrong column. Sub-$5 starting prices are excluded because a first real price replacing a placeholder reads as a spectacular move that never happened.

Common mistakes with a movers list

Chasing a percentage. A card up 60% from $6 to $9.60 has moved $3.60, and the fees on selling it on any marketplace are most of that. The dollar list and the minimum-move chip exist so the board can be read in money rather than in percentages.

Reading a listing move as a sale, or chaining windows from different sources. A near-mint market price can rise because the cheapest copies sold out and the next seller asked more, with no copy changing hands at the new level; the sales count on the row is the check. And a 30-day move from CardTrack's price cannot be added to a 3-year move from PriceCharting's history — compare like with like, and treat every figure here as a lead to check on the card's own page rather than a price to trade at.