No Rarity Bi-Monthly Pop Report 14th June A slight pick up in grading overall compared to previous report for both Total population as well as PSA 8/9 Category. No new PSA 10s. Re adjusted format so that pokemon is presented by order of total population. rather than PSA 8/9 population.

The Real Reason Why You Should Buy Vintage - Salute to Modern Pokemon 🫡 Few paraphrases from the Gary & Graham Video - in Bold 1. Pokemon company is overprinting modern cards and rightfully so. They are in the business to make money and maximize their profits. 2. Willing buyer willing seller, despite over printing the demand is still greater than supply. The way i read this is that Modern pokemon effectively is funding the why you should invest in vintage pokemon. Modern pokemon is a means for which the pokemon company will build a warchest to ensure it remains relevant and a juggernaut for the next 10, 20, 30 years. So i salute all the buyers of modern cards and this scalping, GACHA, Vending industry for feeding all the demand. 3. He did also mention buy WOTC Era and earlier.

What happens when something is a Secret but isn’t actually a Secret What can go wrong here?

Lots of "we're still early in OP" posts. I've been buying this for 2 years, you're not early. There are some key differences between OP markets and Pokemon markets. While I'm INCREDIBLY bullish on OP, there are significant factors that highlight that $ is the key component of OP collecting vs nostalgia and the significant and historic core foundations that are shared by a significant number of those in the hobby in Pokemon. This impact buying decisions, awareness and total prices. OP will be the 2nd strongest TCG, I have no doubt, and there's a tremendous amount of value in the space to both achieve now and achieve in the long run. But some of the card pricing still feels off, I think it feels too high comparatively speaking, I don't think some of the totals make sense. They make sense in way of that supply is low, demand is high and people are making outsized returns in no time whatsoever. I remember days when Champ cards were put in binders or decks, no one attended tournaments trying to buy promos, manga deck running, you couldn't get people to take cards let alone charge them for it. Things are very different now but they're different because of the $ and the opportunity OP represents. OP markets go very quiet during downturns, they absorb all attention in upswings. People like OP because it's aggressively bullish. When the foundations for investors and markets are built on that it's going to be more volatile and it's less stable. Buy OP, make sure you have exposure, but appreciate that you're not early, there's cards that I think are still mispriced, and you're susceptible to some of the largest corrections you'll see in the TCG space if you plan to get involved. (aside from DBZ, but why the fuck would you buy that.)

It all makes sense now Charizard is Mexican!! Charizard hot like Mexican Jalapenos! 🔥

$DXY Trump came out to sinks DXY just at HTF R/S. EU, Australia , Japan have raised rates recently with most other countries leaning towards it too. What happens if the fed is not as hawkish as people think. Mar-a-Lago Accord 👀? Currently short the dollar going into the weekend, hope to see immediate continuation on Monday inline with 1H and 4H trend.

Always bullish on Corocoro Some people read my past as I am bearish Ivy Pikachu. But if you read it carefully, I was actually highlighting prices now are much more attractive than 2 months ago. Not trying to claim its the bottom but it is definitely lower than before. FYI for the PSA 4 pikachu can be found on Snkrdunk if anyone is after one. I personally have a preference for the 1997 Corocoros, which is why I never chases the icu but hey if u are after one that is the lowest listed I found. Snkrdunk actually not a bad place to check everyone once in a while.

End of an Era… I’ve Caught Enough Started posting pokemon on X around April been a wild 2-3 months. Traditional Markets were choppy and still are choppy thanks to Mr Orange constant tweet bombardments. Pokemon was my haven to hide and keep me busy. Buy my opinion is that we are in the final stages of the Iran War… What this means for me is that likely I’ll be focusing more attention back to traditional trading. This also aligns with my view that the meat of the parabolic gains for pokemon as an index have already been seen, maybe we get one last final leg up if markets go into crazy season. I am already position and have no interest in chasing any final leg. There will always be pockets that have room to be repriced up as awareness is spread. CardBound for example. I entered pokemon September/October’25, saw the momentum picking up and saw the opportunity in Pokemon Japanese Vintage and took it, my original thesis was this is likely the last chance I ever have to build a sizable portfolio at a price point I can accept to hold effectively forever - I still believe it was. Looking back some prices I paid I believe we will never see again. Some how in this process the nostalgia made me fall back in love with it too. Deep dived and went balls deep on what I had conviction in. Everything I currently own will be long held and won’t be coming to market… literally Hero or Zero for my offsprings. I’ve always focused my posts on areas I believe are long holds and will always remain relevant as long as Pokemon remains a juggernaut, things will continue to appreciate. Will likely be posting partial Pokemon, things I have interest in adding to a watchlist for future buys or just general information (pop reports) and partial Tradfi (Fx, Commods, Metals, maybe stonks one day) from now on. I do have some theories that I will share on how I plan to adjust my pokemon portfolio. The 5 cards I first fell in love with and remain the core of my portfolio outside of No Rarity.

Ivy Corocoro Pikachu Prices are Collapsing Looks like this is playing out as I expected… as “new found card” there was always going to be a period where mass supply returns from PSA but the FOMO demand can’t keep up. This is what we are seeing now. The initial rush and FOMO pushed PSA 4 to as high as $4,000 and now one can be bought for just over $2,000. This is the time to probably start looking while all the new supply floods the market and demand cannot keep up. Not sure if we have hit the bottom but at least I hope you didn’t end up the FOMO exit liquidity. PSA 1s were the ones to buy before as the prices stayed stable around $1000 -. I currently only hold 1 set of PSA 1 Ivy and Jigglypuff. Still on the sidelines and happy to monitor the market a bit. Also on a side note : I havnt checked the very high PSA grades but those should have held up much better

Road to 10% of Supply - Peasant Edition Unfortunately i’m a peasant unlike this guy so I am targeting 10% of PSA 9 Supply. Current pop is 88, got 5 so far, another one is in storage just 4 more to go for the 10% Dream. Whats wild I managed to secure a 6th a little while ago but thanks to the Iran war, the shipment route resulted in a Force Majeure on my shipment and it was sent back to the seller… 🥲 May all your Corocoro Belong to Me!

My Jumbo Asymmetric Bet Been openly posting about Jumbos and also buying raw for quite a while so guess this won’t be a surprise. My idea is Jumbos in general are an under appreciated segment of pokemon and the risk reward just makes sense here. - Low Cost - Low Supply - Reprice multiple are potentially high - Aesthetically nice (arguable) These will be long holds for me as for all I know it could actually take another 1-2 cycles before people catch on, maybe they never will 🤷‍♂️ but at this price point i’m willing to take the bet as I feel the downside is so limited. Especially when you compare the monetary value to say a random PSA 10 vintage card now a-days.

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