First of all, if you haven’t invested yet on MTGO, I highly recommend to read more fundamental Matt Lewis’s articles and mine to have a better idea of how properly start investing online: helpful websites and resources, bots, tix, credits…

I don’t really have any short term targets right now (or I guess it depends on how fast evolve my mid term targets). Some Modern cards are still quiet attractive to me, Gitaxian probe @<0.5tix, Phyrexian Metamorph or Grim Lavamancer. These 3 guys have strong potentials with the upcoming Modern season.
As with all my past and present Modern specs, I aimed for either a price or a time. June-Jully is my time target with Modern specs, and usually doubling is my price goal. Here for instance, if Phyrexian Metamorph reaches 3-3.5tix I would consider selling, even if it happens in three weeks. If nothing happen, or the price keeps dropping, I'll wait until this summer where I think the price should be "up" and I'll move on even if the result is negative.

MtgGoldfish.com is great to look at historical prices and have an idea of prices expectations.

Another thing, I strongly encourage you to diversify your portfolio and follow the "5% rule" (none of your position should constitute more than 5% of your total bankroll). In your case, as good as any specs may look like, I would not recommend to buy more than 15-20 tix of it. And if it means that you have 60 tix invested in 3 or 4 specs and 240 tix free, that's fine.

I believe I’ll give it a try starting speculating online instead of focusing just on paper magic.

As I mentioned before, my initial amount to invest/speculate with is 300 tix. Can you recommend me some short/middle term targets to start with this week?

As I responded to Max, the 100 tix, 1 year project will be special because of its size. It is likely to be mostly quick flips and some well target and predictable specs (Modern mostly). And the value of the cards is likely to be below 5-7 tix at anytime.

Most if not all of my targets are in my articles, on the forum, and are on twitter about 24h before posting here.

Hi Max,

For this project, I anticipate to have 50% of my bankroll in the form of free tix and to do a lot of quick flips. Also, considering the size of this bankroll I’ll have to deal mostly with low price cards.
Twitter is an easy way to follow the project day by day, and because of the nature of this portfolio, I don’t think it will really influence the market.

On the other hand, I am now twitting most in not all the specs I suggest here on QS (forums or articles), and thus with at least a 24h-delay. QS members still get the info 24h before anybody else.

Note that I could do that with the 100 tix, 1 year project as well, posting here first and delaying the tweets.

Agree. Cant wait to hear it, and Im excited for you to post your transactions as I will likely make the same transactions myself too. 🙂

This is a really cool challenge and I look forward to the updates.