The floor and ceiling prices are historical prices for the past 12 months approximately. We generally considered two full cycles (or seasons) and we will expand a little more on the spreadsheet soon. One thing to keep in mind if you intend to buy cards from the list is the fact tha the floor prices tend to increase over time for some Modern specs, due to increased popularity. So buying at a little higher price will probably be correct in October (more on this later too). Legacy has shown some strength in Mtgo lately, so we will probably adjust the expected floor prices in the months to come, and ceiling should be higher as well , unless mtgo makes massive reprints. But there is no sign of them intending to do that

This is the kind of insight I love to see here. I’ve been toying around with MTGO and this is a great jumping off point.

I’m glad to see that you are writing insider articles now, as I feel you definitely have knowledge that we could all benefit from.

Thanks Jeff.

I hope with the upcoming new MTGO interface that bots become much easier and cheaper to implement, and maintain. Although not TOO easy, else they’ll be thousands, all undercutting each other. Looking forward to it 🙂

To Lee Bosley:

2 articles migth interest you: the one on foils for sure, but also the theory of niche market. Ill cover that part cause even if we don’t do it now, we migth be foil traders later…Some traders specialize in trading only foils and do lot of $. Thing is, you have to know the market…How many particulars are stuck with foils and give them for ridiculous price…There is something there that I feel we should investigate. Also, we always keep an open mind cause more ways to make money usually means more money…

About the cards I see that could be huge in DGM, I always wait until all spoilers are revealed and we might also write something about it later, but we rarely do big speculation before I studied the meta change. Anyway, except for quick flips (1 tix or 0.5 tix profit) the prerelease is not the best place to make $.

To Joaquim Neumann: We will write articles (one per week) that will show you how to trade on mtgo, but, a lot of concept will apply to paper world too. We traded both paper and on mtgo and we came to the conclusion it was far easier to trade on mtgo (if you know correctly how to do so). So, you should like our articles. But if you want already something to read, you could read Sébastien post in the forum (portfolio management:tips and caveats) that covers a good part of how we started with a low bankroll and managed it to 5000. This is a good start for beginners, but our articles will go into far more details. Our next goal is 10000 and as we are talking now,we are in the process of starting a bot. So we will for sure talk about this experience later and once again, we will learn the hard way so that our readers will have it easier than us!

Hope you’ll enjoy! My first article will be on expected value and how you should take it into consideration when trading.

until next wednesday wish you good trading!

Jeff

Some players even agree to trade 1:1 their Foil copies for your regular ones. This shows how illiquid Foils can be online, and we will cover in details when Foils are a good investment, and when to stay away from these (which is quite often!).

Does Jean see any card in DGM that he thinks will be huge in Standard?

I am particularly looking forward to:

What Should You Do with Foils on MTGO?

When I first jumped onto MTGO, I quickly picked up a large amount of Foils for what I thought were great prices. But then I noticed the disparity between non-foils and foils was just not the same as in paper. MTGO Foils often command very little over their counterparts, and there’s just not as big market for ‘pimp’ online.

I’m still stuck with 40 Foil Shamans, which I know will be good and safe for a very longterm spec, but it tests my patience as I usually like to flip/reinvest within a few months. I also had some Foil Misty Rainforests, shifted a couple of singletons individually, but eventually ended up selling the rest for the same price as non-foil ones, as I just couldn’t find a sufficient market for them.

The average Foil Bot buylist prices are seemingly pitiful. Often less than a single ticket more than the normal counterpart. Shifting them to humans, individually, takes a fair bit of manual work with days online, dormant with your human ads.

This is in contrast to paper, where pimping is rife, any vaguely eternal staple that is in foil holds high desirability. Anyhow, I’ll come back to this when the article is actually released.