Pokémon Card Market Reports

Year-end reports

Quarterly reports

Monthly reports

What every edition contains

Each report opens with the CardTrack Index and, on the monthly editions, its Vintage (pre-2003), Modern chase and Graded (PSA 10) sub-indices, each shown as a level, its change over the window and the number of cards in the band. Below that come the ten biggest risers and fallers by percentage and the ten biggest dollar movers, every row linking to the card page it describes, followed by the PSA 10 premium leaders, a grading ROI spotlight and a sealed product watch of 5 gainers and 5 fallers.

A written analysis by a named CardTrack author follows the index bands (the latest edition is by JD); a citation block and two embed snippets sit near the end, one of them for the live index embed, and every edition can be downloaded as JSON. The methodology printed on each edition is the same: movers need a value of at least $30 and three contributing marketplaces, any move beyond ±90% is excluded and flagged rather than published, and the prices are blended as described in how CardTrack prices cards.

The series so far

6 editions have been published: 4 monthly, 1 quarterly and 1 annual. The monthly run starts with June 2026, a launch edition built on each card's 30-day trend rather than a calendar month, and currently ends with September 2026, generated 1 Sept 2026. Across the 3 calendar-month editions the index has risen in 2 and fallen in 1 (the launch edition, a 30-day trend, is not counted); the strongest month was September 2026 at +13.7%, though that edition's window spans the 31 Aug 2026 change to how CardTrack computes headline prices, so part of that move may be method rather than market, and the weakest August 2026 at -8.1%.

The latest monthly edition's headline is that vintage Pokémon cards outpaced modern chase by 12 points over the past 30 days. Its index stands at 115.6 (+13.7% on the month) across 4,493 cards, with Vintage at +20.1% against Modern chase at +8.1%; the top riser was Pichu (Expedition Base Set) at +89.9% and the steepest faller Altaria (BW Black Star Promos) at -89.4%, and 129 implausible moves were excluded and flagged rather than published.

The most recent quarterly edition, Q2 2026, has the index +13.6% over the quarter on 7,037 cards. The 2025 Annual edition has it +82.3% over the year on 6,615 cards. For the years before the series began, the long-run market report follows a separate 58-card PriceCharting basket back to 2021; it is not the CardTrack Index, so its levels do not join onto these.

Monthly, quarterly and annual: what differs

Monthly editions are built from live blended values across every card that passes the report's liquidity gates on the day (a value of at least $30, three contributing marketplaces and no move beyond ±90%, which are not the same floors as the movers board uses), and each card's movement is its change against the previous month's close (the launch edition used each card's real 30-day trend instead). Quarterly and annual editions are built from PriceCharting's monthly price history for the whole window, which is why they carry only the headline index and the mover tables: the PSA premium, grading spotlight and sealed watch need live data that a historical window does not have.

Each edition is computed on that month's basket, and the basket changes as cards pass or fail the evidence gates — from 4,493 to 6,288 cards across the monthly editions so far. Compare editions on their percentage change over the window, which is computed on each edition's own basket, rather than by subtracting index levels across editions; for the daily picture between editions, the market today page is the place to look.

How to use the reports

Read the newest monthly edition for what moved and why, then follow the previous-edition link at its foot to see whether the leaders held; the list above shows each edition's headline and index move so the shape of the series is visible without opening any of them. A card that appears in two consecutive editions' riser tables has risen across two consecutive months rather than on a single reading, and the hype page shows whether collectors are talking about it yet.

Every edition is free to cite with attribution and free to embed: the citation block gives the exact wording and URL, one snippet embeds the live index and another embeds that edition's summary, and the JSON download holds every table on the page for your own analysis. To follow the cards in the tables, add them to the collection tracker.