Comments on: Insider: MTG Stock Watch

By: Drackmorph

Drackmorph — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 22:40:46 +0000

That’s the kind articles i am looking for around here. Nice sumup. I will keep it as reference for August purchases 🙂

By: David Schumann

David Schumann — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 19:48:24 +0000

In reply to k_omega. I like that as you're right it's just as important to highlight the bad with the good (so we aren't stuck with cards that keep slowly dropping when we could have gotten rid of them weeks earlier at a higher price).

By: David Schumann

David Schumann — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 18:57:44 +0000

In reply to Byron.

I definitely used Sold listings (I actually didn’t know you could find completed (but unsold) but I agree 100%, the only good way to define the market price…is by looking at what the market paid for them…not what people asked for them. For the boxes I will update all the ones listed. I only went back as far as I did because 1) I started back up in these blocks and didn’t play/draft any in previous blocks so I don’t know how much fun they were and 2) I wasn’t going to do it for all sealed product so I focused on the stuff that’s more recent and likely more readily available. The farther back you go, the less available product there is and the more likely you will not have a lot of data points (or that they’ll go back so far that we’ll have “old data” points that skew the price).

By: k_omega

k_omega — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 18:19:53 +0000

In reply to pi. I second using three interesting cards instead of just the top 3. Perhaps both? Also, I think a biweekly appearance of this article style would be more suitable once things pick up. For now monthly seems appropriate.

By: Byron

Byron — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 17:04:35 +0000

Very interesting article David. I had a few questions though, when you say completed ebay auctions, are you using sold auctions, or completed ones, because a completed auction by ebay is one that has ended I believe not necessarily one that has been sold. If that is the case, I think best way to go about determining a price growth chart would be to use sold auctions. I am curious if you have a timeline you are setting to see the growth on the boosters and if you plan on tracking the same cards monthly or just take the top 3 of each category. I think that it would be interesting to see a monthly update of this article where you take a look at the top 3 in each category and recap what happened to last months 3 choices (although during the summer it might be a very uninteresting read just because the market is so strange). Keep up the good writing!

Cheers,

Byron

By: David Schumann

David Schumann — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:02:47 +0000

In reply to pi.

Thanks for the feedback. I do agree that bulk rares could easily be considered blue chip stocks (as I myself love trading for bulk…it’s my favorite thing to pick up). And I definitely missed defining the time for the change. It’s a 1 week time span, though I will make sure to update that missing information. The “Value stocks” don’t have that listed because quiet honestly when I first wrote them up I was thinking they were a medium term hold so minor weekly price changes weren’t going to be a major factor in my targeting of them; however, upon further review it does make sense to list the weekly change for everything simply to keep the formatting the same.

By: pi

pi — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 14:28:10 +0000

I wanted to add that I count true bulk rares (<=$0.15) as blue chip too as they just can't go any lower. I am perfectly happy to trade just about anything for bulk.

As for the article format, I think you may not want to limit yourself to the top 3, it might be better to go for the 3 most interesting ones instead. Also, why do some cards have an indication of the change since uhm, some unclear amount time in the past and some don't?