Market
Market dynamics
The price tells you where a card is. This panel is a read on which way the market under it is leaning.
What the panel shows
- Active
- Listings live on eBay, averaged over seven days and compared with the thirty-day average.
- New a day
- New listings appearing each day, seven-day average against thirty.
- Sold a day
- Estimated sales each day, seven-day average against thirty. Days the source filled in by interpolation are left out rather than counted.
Demand pressure
A seven-day demand measure over the card’s eBay listings, shown as a percentage. The gauge runs from heavy supply at one end to very tight at the other. Higher reads as a tighter market.
Supply saturation
An index of the card’s current eBay supply against its own baseline, where 1.0 is baseline. The gauge runs from tightening to loosening: below 1.0 supply is drying up, above it supply is building.
Where it comes from
Collectrics supplies the listing counts, the sales estimates and both indices, derived from eBay listing data. CardPulse displays them and does not compute demand pressure or supply saturation itself, so this page describes what they show rather than claiming a formula.
A card Collectrics has no live figures for shows seeded sample data, badged as sample data on the card page. The panel is labelled directionally accurate, not exact, and that is the right amount of trust to give it.
Price
Market dynamics are the same on the free tier and on Premium.
Questions
- What does demand pressure mean for a trading card?
- It is a seven-day demand measure over a card’s eBay listings, shown as a percentage on a scale from heavy supply to very tight. Higher means a tighter market.
- What is supply saturation?
- An index comparing a card’s current eBay supply with its own baseline. 1.0 is baseline. Above 1.0 supply is loosening; below it, supply is tightening.
- Where does CardPulse get market dynamics data?
- From Collectrics, which derives these metrics from eBay listing data. CardPulse displays them; it does not compute demand pressure or supply saturation itself.
- How accurate are market dynamics figures?
- Directionally accurate, not exact. Sales a day is an estimate from listing history, and a card without live figures shows seeded sample data, labelled as sample data, rather than a gap.