Oh I believe you. While everyone focusing on 151, still think palfean fates a sleeper. Some cards crept up in value but still have lots of potential.

One in a million! Haha jk. Very lucky. Definately sell one and keep the other.

Thanks man. Hope it helps. And no, I don’t have a discord. Alot of people suggested to me, but I have no clue how to run a discord haha other than using it for gaming.

Thanks man! Hmm booster packs might be a hard sell since nowadays people don’t trust booster packs. But if you have Evolving skies or lost origin booster boxes, they will appreciate really well long term.

@@pokeetf thanks for that mate! , another question , you mean by people dont trust booster packs because of the pull rates or because they normally sell them not in a cardboard sleeve?

No prob. Welcome the questions. People generally don’t like to buy loose packs because they might suspect the loose packs come from booster boxes where the hits were already made and revealed. For example, if I got a twilight masquerade booster box or case and the first pack I opened… I opened a greninja ex which is currently the most expensive card in the set and also the whole entire scarlet and violet era… that person would just stop and sell the packs. The probability of opening another greninja ex or another SIR is near zero since you already got the hit which is like 1 per 86 packs which is like 3 booster box.

@@pokeetf Thank you so much for explaining such in detail mate!! I Really appreciate it!! Absolute Legend!

Thank you! Getting ready for stellar crown! Will hopefully do a similar release video for it. Stellar crown seems to be looking great ;)

Thanks man. Hope these helps. Looking forward to doing more deeper but yet simple to understand analysis

lol. Trust me. I tried. It’s taken. You would be surprised at how many poke- usernames are taken. >.<

Thank you! Appreciate your support.

Thank you!

SIR from Paldean Fates? Yeah for sure for long term. They will appreciate well especially from a special set, a shiny set, a lot of good hits in the set etc. maybe the gardevoir and the mew.

@@pokeetf I am watching those two closely thanks. I’ll prob wait to see if they drop more though

Ditto. Happy it provided some useful info and confirmed how small of a set Shrouded Fable is and still the same difficult pull rates. It’s just better to buy singles than to gamble haha. And just buy those promo boxes and be done. :) welcome!

Nice! You are very welcome. Hope the data and analysis helps. Paldean Fates a great set and will appreciate well like fine wine :)

Thanks man. Appreciate you!

Thanks man. Appreciate you! Welcome :)

Welcome! Nice! Trainer gallery is a beautiful collection. It is a balance between the alternate arts and full art trainers and really cheap. $600 to get all of them. I say it’s a good time to buy. Maybe start with the cheap ones like the $1-3 ones. The expensive ones… I feel have room to go down like the starmie v or the pikachu v or vmax.

@@pokeetf apprexiate it bro

Tcgplayer. Back end. Api. A lot of work to setup. So much data.

That’s a good take. Eevee is harder to pull than the magikarp. And Eeevee is probably extremely more popular than the magikarp… so you may not be wrong that Eevee may break $100 and even into $150 or as equal to Magikarp prices.

@@pokeetf Great video as always, thanks for the response. Your opinion always helps out! Either way i agree with what you have to say :)

Definitely! Expect it

Definately. One of the bucket list to do in the near future to figure out a feasible and automatic way to extract PSA data and pop data… don’t know if the PSA site have a api link or so. Any suggestion or recommendation feedback welcome :)

@@pokeetf No sure if PSA has an API. But one way I thought about it, it is that given a PSA number for a given card, one can issue the request and and then parsed the population, for price data, I think Ebay has an API, but no sure. One of the new LLMs might be able to generate some of the code, Claude. What we need is a utility where you put in an Excel a list of PSA numbers, and it gets the information, and stores in a DB or just Excel, this will only no be helpful for the analysis you do, but to keep track of personal collections.

Thanks. Will look into it. Fingers crossed!

I believe anything you hold treasure or memorable should be graded. If it in terms of investing or potential returns, you have to make sure it will be a 10. A graded 9, you will be in the ‘red’. There’s a lot of indicators to figure out how to deduce whether a card is a good candidate for a 10. Lmk :)

Hey! Hell no. Haha. Manually input hundreds of thousands of data? Even hundreds is not worth the headache or the time. I would give up lol. I extract the data automatically from Tcgplayer. Have it upload into my personal server. Do a lot of linkage to different custom files and sql codes in MS SQL. Then link that to my personal Tableau data visualization where I create automatic graphs and templates. Then export those into a presentation style format :) a lot of work to setup but once it’s all set up, it’s easy to manage and prepare and upload each video. I did it for a long time for myself, and I thought to share it on KZbin thinking there are others who would appreciate it, which it seems the channel getting some traction.

Thanks! Hope it helps in your collecting journey

Welcome to the channel! And thanks for the sub. Can count on monthly FA Trainer updates. I’m a big FA trainer collector along with other collections. Definitely the FA Trainer hype died down and more stabilized. Time to accumulate your favorites :)

Great comment. Yes! Serena is definitely top 10 undervalued and great spec and investing full art trainer right now. $12 for Serena is crazy good. Not financial advice! Do your own research. But with that said, I would definately pick up like 20+ copies. This card could easily potentially be $30-40 back up to the level within 1-3 years once silver tempest rotates out. Again, Serena is an extremely popular character. Similar to Marnie.

@@pokeetf Thank you! Much Appreciated :D

My pleasure. :)

Thank you! Appreciate it. :)

Of course. Everything starts high. Iono SIR isn’t a surprise that it was the #1 Chase card of the set. A lot of times, the ‘waifu’ is the Chase like the Miriam SIR of SV base set or the Marnie of the SWSH base set or other similar sets. So it’s not surprising it is the #1. But even as #1, it will go down due to mass production of cards. It’s still too early as there are still many places evolved packs in distribution in supplemental products or even main products. Look at tcgplayer… there are still 100+ copies. Also there are so many copies available to purchase right now for $65… that tells me $72 is NOT going to hold and will have room to go down to at least $65. More supply > demand. Also it is $72 level because it is a playable card. If it was not a playable card I would say this would easily be a $30-40 card. Hope that helps :)

Thank you! Totally. I can definitely do a video of my opinion of the most underrated or even undervalued full art trainers or alt arts. Of course it’s just my opinion ;) appreciate your feedback and your support :)

I can say what I’m using :). It’s basically Microsoft SQL. Connect to a data source whether excel or a server. Then I connect that SQL to Tableau which is the data visualization. It’s free for public. The real software cost around hundreds. But the free public pretty much does 95% of the same thing.

@@pokeetf which data source are you connecting to? How much data cleansing/mapping/etc. is required?

Tcgplayer api is the data source. It’s a lot of data. And also I do a lot of custom cleansing and mapping because unfortunately alot of the data in Tcgplayer are bad data. Such as the naming of sets. I also link the card to a lot of other data sources such as list of Pokemon, list of trainers, card types, etc etc. so much data. It’s a lot of work and resources. Don’t recommend it but because I do this already personally.

Thank you! Appreciate you. Yes, that will be my next video. A full art trainers update. Spoiler alert… not much going on haha. In terms of Nessa. Great pick up. If I had to choose, I like the LO TG version. You can’t go wrong with either. Low cost and potential high upside. Free opinion, I recommend almost all of the crown zenith full art trainers, such as the friends, Irida, grant, melony, Elesa’s sparkle…. So super cheap still.

Agreed. This is no different to the SM alt arts, the full art trainers and other that are following the same rhythm. Just don’t overreact, don’t fomo, and don’t panic sell. The ones that have dipped 30-50%, are the ones I’m eyeing on to rebuy more.

Welcome! Appreciate your support. Of course. I get it straight from tcgplayer

But being specific… I connect tcgplayer, extract it to a database server, sql -> using a data visualization software called tableau

@@pokeetfthats awesome! Keep up the great work!

Thank you! Appreciate it!

Thank you always! As for discord, I’ll be real honest… I have no clue about managing not using discord. I only know it’s for gaming? Lol. What would I use or start discord for?

@@pokeetf its a great way to have a community chat room, it is tied with gaming but for youtubers or content creators its more of a way to access your audience and chat with them more real time. I would join another poketubers discord to see what that looks like and see if tis something youd like to do! :D

@jovanlagrotta thanks for the info. Definately always open for new things and ways to connect and create a community. Any discord of poketubers or content creators that you are part of or recommend. I can check it out. :)

Thank you! Yeah, I know what you mean. I think a lot of people had that ‘feeling’ that Gen 1 was represented a lot, but having the data to back it up confirms assumptions and suspicions.

Thank you for watching! Let me know what other type of contents or collections you would like me to keep track of on a monthly or quarterly basis :)

Honestly, I know what you mean. Trust me. I tried asking many variation of the question. Here is one of the ChatGPT answer. Basically it asked us to do the analysis and that it cannot make a definitive answer. Thus it answered not really incorrectly but it doesn’t or can’t answer… So I did the work and analysis to answer for chatGPT ;) but yes I agree… thematically yes it’s very SV. Many ways to interpret. To determine if Generation 1 Pokémon are the most represented in the Scarlet and Violet era, we would need to analyze the distribution of unique Pokémon name cards across all generations in the Pokémon Trading Card Game (TCG) sets released during this era. Here’s a general approach you can use to assess the representation: 1. Identify Relevant Sets: Look up the specific TCG sets released during the Scarlet and Violet era. 2. List Unique Pokémon Cards: Compile a list of unique Pokémon name cards for each set. 3. Categorize by Generation: Group these cards according to their respective generations (Gen 1, Gen 2, etc.). 4. Count the Cards: Count the number of unique name cards in each generation. 5. Compare Totals: Compare the counts to see which generation has the most unique name cards. Since I don’t have real-time access to databases or the latest card lists, I’ll provide a high-level guide on how you can gather and analyze this data: 1. Visit Official Pokémon TCG Resources: Use the Pokémon TCG official website, PokéBeach, or other reliable TCG databases to find card lists for Scarlet and Violet era sets. 2. Extract Data: Note down each unique Pokémon name from these sets. 3. Categorize and Count: Create a spreadsheet to categorize each Pokémon by its generation and tally the counts. Based on historical trends, Generation 1 Pokémon often receive significant representation due to their nostalgic value, but only a detailed review of the specific sets from the Scarlet and Violet era will provide a definitive answer.

I have kept track of set releases and prices crashing since SM era. 6 years at least? It’s all the same story. Yes you will have some singles exception. But most all crash the first 3 months. Then stabilizes up and down the next 6 months. The best time to buy singles is when the set is right about to rotate. Maybe like 3 months before it rotates. You don’t want it but it after it rotates or else it may be too late. When it rotates out is usually when packs and products for that set dwindles and no longer be massively available thus hamper down the available supply. Then it’s really just sloward natural demand from there as time go by. I am also a sealed collector and investor so I do buy the bread and butter booster boxes and cases for collecting, investing and hopefully get to enjoy ripping them with my kids later on. I don’t really buy other sealed unless it’s really marked down. Hope that helps. But at the end of day, it’s to have fun and enjoy. Not a sin to once awhile splurge and have fun ripping packs to get that dopamine ;)

@@pokeetf Thank you for the reply, for instance of your rotation example, lets say for Twilight Masquerade - would you buy 3 months before the next set comes out for singles? I'm Just making sure I understand what you're saying correctly. and thanks for the insight.

There’s a couple things to know. First, rotation happens every April. Every Pokemon cards have a letter on the bottom left. In these cases, twilight masquerade cards have the letter H. Right now rotation is F, G and H. So… April 2025, cards with F will rotate out. April 2026, cards with G will rotate out. Then April 2027, those twilight masquerade cards will rotate out. So there’s a 3 year window where the pokemon company can potential keep busting out new products that contain twilight masquerade cards. Thus 3 years of potential new supplies of cards. Thus why I think it’s crazy to buy cards now because I am pretty certain all of these prices will go down in a year or so. My experience buy at least in 2026-2027. But because people or collectors can’t wait that long, people want the cards now! So I won’t blame them. I can wait. Right now you should be picking up cards that have the F letter because they will rotate out. Those would be in the sword and shield era astral radiance lost origin and silver tempest etc.

@@pokeetf Thank you for your detailed response that helps me out a lot

My pleasure. You are more than welcome to reach out. :)

Thank you! Love data and seeing what else I can slice and dice.

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lol. Me too. Some of these prices I had to go on tcgplayer to double check if my data extract was really pulling accurate market prices for that given day… if I didn’t do this, I wouldn’t even know how high these alt arts are going. Everyone knows in general, but don’t think people are reeeeaaally aware how certain alt arts increased like 100% in the last 2 months…

Thank you! As always :)

Agreed. Honestly no one knows what will happen. It’s crazy to see these cards at these prices. We will see. I of course will be watching personally from my analytics dashboard haha.

Thank you! Yeah I extract the data and create all bunch of custom dashboards and pivots myself. There were so many things I want to know such as doing it by sets, by rarity, how many unique Pokemon are in a certain set, proportion of Gen 1 Pokemon in certain sets, etc etc and no site can do that. So I took it upon myself to extract the tcgplayer prices myself and query it and link it to excel and tableau and create my analysis. :) happy you enjoyed it and appreciate you!

Thanks! Happy you found it useful. Yeah… master set collectors… just wait haha. Save your $$$