Returns
What a card has made since you added it
A watchlist tells you what a card is worth. This tells you what it has done for you.
How do I track what a Pokémon card is worth over time?
Add the card to your watchlist. CardPulse records the market price at that moment and keeps a daily close for the card from then on, so every later price has something to be measured against. The card page then shows the starting price, the date, and the return since.
The two figures
- Today’s return
- Current market price against yesterday’s close, in dollars and percent.
- Total return
- Current market price against the price recorded when you added the card.
A card with no close recorded yet shows an em dash for today’s return rather than a zero. Zero would read as “flat today”, and the truth is that we do not know yesterday’s number for that card yet.
Where the starting price comes from
The live market price on screen at the moment you tapped add. It is observed, never estimated, and never backdated to a purchase we did not see. If the price had not loaded when you added the card, CardPulse waits and uses the first live price instead, dating the baseline to then — so the figure is always measured from a price that actually existed.
The 20% push
Premium sends one notification when a card is up 20% or down 20% against its starting price. It fires once per direction per card, so a card hovering around the threshold does not notify you repeatedly.
What this is not
It is not a portfolio ledger. CardPulse does not know what you paid, and does not ask — the baseline is a market price on a date, not a purchase record. It is not tax reporting, it is not a valuation of your collection, and a return figure here is not advice to buy or sell anything.
Price
The card is visible on the free tier, with its figures shown as placeholders behind an upgrade prompt. Reading them, and the 20% pushes, are part of Premium at $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year.