Comments on: Insider: MTGO Market Report for February 17th, 2016

By: Matthew Lewis

Matthew Lewis — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 17:51:53 +0000

In reply to Sylvain Lehoux. Yes, with RTR and now THS going out of stock pretty quickly, the level of risk speculating on these cards after they rotate out of Standard is higher now. Buying cards from rotating sets is still worth it (especially for Modern staples), but any decent gains due to redemption should be taken and locked no longer than 3 months after rotation.

By: Matthew Lewis

Matthew Lewis — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 17:49:01 +0000

In reply to George Tudor. I am not familiar with running a bot, but koen_knx has pointed out the forums have some threads on this that might be helpful. As for the targeted buys/sells, Sylvain was really the active one on that front, so I would look to see what he is doing in his High Stakes article series. I don't intend to bring back the targeted buys/sells as a part of the report though, sorry!

By: Matthew Lewis

Matthew Lewis — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 17:46:20 +0000

In reply to koen_knx.

a) There was an opportunity to arbitrage between a low sell price and a higher buy price, so I bought and sold two play sets to take advantage of this. Not my normal strategy due to the time involved, but grinding a couple of tix in a small portfolio can be helpful.

b) I think it was different transactions, so I wanted to record all relevant prices. Is that your question?

c) They are being opened in draft so they are relatively abundant. It’s definitely time to be stocking up on BFZ and OGW cards in general, since they won’t be opened by drafters very much after April.

Hope this helps!

By: koen_knx

koen_knx — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 10:20:34 +0000

In reply to George Tudor. Search the fora and article database for info on how to set up a bot, lots of ideas there.

By: George Tudor

George Tudor — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 05:25:42 +0000

Hey Matt, looking at buying a bot since I don’t have the time to really sit down and buy/sell manually right now. Any advice on how to go about it (or recommending to not do so) would be greatly appreciated. Also, I really miss in these articles the summary at the bottom as far as buy/sell/hold and the targeted prices for buys and sells. Feel free to reply to this comment or PM me at your convenience, and thanks as always for the great articles!

By: koen_knx

koen_knx — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 19:23:05 +0000

That portfolio looks strange, i would like some clarification on some points:

a) on 2/6 are you buying and selling Visions of Beyond on the same day ?

b) Why two times 4 instead of just 8 (and a moyenne) ?

c) Why is “OGW currently being drafted” a reason to buy cards ?

By: Sylvain Lehoux

Sylvain Lehoux — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 14:25:14 +0000

Thanks for the notification here about THS sets, I had totally missed that one. Good to remember for future sets but kind of annoying (and not just for speculative purposes) that sets repetitively run out of stock before cut of date.