Our mission
Make the Pokemon card market easier to understand by showing where a number came from, what exact card it describes, and how much evidence supports it.
Public Beta / Pokemon Card Market Intelligence
Know the market.Follow the cards.Join the conversation.
CardTrends connects Pokemon card prices, sold-market evidence, industry news, observed sales, and collector perspectives around the cards you follow.
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One market, connected
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Market Data
Track card-grade prices, verified sold comps, population, scarcity, liquidity, and the quality of the underlying evidence.
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News
Scan a focused Pokemon TCG news tape from specialist publishers alongside CardTrends's own market-activity headlines.
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Market Evidence
Explore sourced prices, linked sales, and verified PSA population. Valuation research is under review.
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Community
Build a watchlist or portfolio and publish collector perspectives connected to canonical card-grade pages.
Why CardTrends
A price is more useful when you can see the evidence, the news, and what other collectors are saying. CardTrends keeps source details alongside each available observation.
Explore CardTrends
| Market Home | Follow market movers, active cards, your watchlist, and the latest Pokemon TCG headlines. |
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| Market Evidence | Inspect selected card-grade prices, observed sales, and their sources. |
| Community | Read and publish card-linked perspectives without separating the conversation from the underlying data. |
| Portfolio | Connect your holdings to current market values and watchlist activity. |
Current coverage
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sets with selected market evidence
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selected PSA 9 and PSA 10 card-grades with linked evidence
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card-grades backed by imported source evidence
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active publisher feeds in the Pokemon TCG news tape
CardTrends Public Beta
Start with the market. Save the cards that matter to you.
CardTrends displays available source data and does not appraise or broker cards. PSA population is certified supply, not the number of copies for sale. Pokemon, PSA, and other third-party marks belong to their respective owners; CardTrends is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
Market Desk
Welcome to CardTrends
Follow source-labeled prices, coverage activity, and Pokemon TCG headlines in one view.
Market Pulse
Recurring source-labeled market findings
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Profile
Portfolio
Tracked holdings
Watchlist
Card Price Guide
Pokemon Card Prices
Search mainline Pokemon sets, then open a set to browse individual cards and available Near Mint, PSA 9, and PSA 10 prices.
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About CardTrends
Market context for the exact card in front of you.
CardTrends organizes Pokemon card prices, completed-sale evidence, population data, market activity, and collector discussion around one precise identity: card, set, printing, and condition or PSA grade.
What we cover
We provide available Near Mint, PSA 9, and PSA 10 prices across approved mainline sets, with deeper sales and population evidence for selected, actively traded cards.
How we work
Scheduled data pipelines collect licensed or permitted source data, normalize card identity and price dimensions, validate releases, and publish source-labeled observations.
The product
One connected market view
A card price is more useful beside its source, observation date, completed sales, certified population, and current market activity. CardTrends brings those pieces together instead of treating price lookup, research, news, and collector conversation as separate products.
- Browse mainline sets and compare available Near Mint, PSA 9, and PSA 10 prices.
- Open canonical card pages tied to a specific set, number, printing, and grade.
- Inspect source names, dates, quote status, observed sales, and PSA population where available.
- Follow cards through a watchlist, portfolio, Market Pulse, specialist news, and community posts.
How CardTrends is different
Built for traceability, not just lookup.
Identity first. Similar names, printings, variants, and grades remain separate instruments.
Source visible. Prices retain their provider, observation date, support count, and quality state.
Evidence separated. Asking prices, aggregate market summaries, and completed sales are not presented as interchangeable facts.
Coverage is explicit. Missing data stays missing, and deeper research is limited to cards with enough market evidence.
Help shape the product
CardTrends is a public beta.
Tell us what is useful, unclear, or missing.
CardTrends Blog / Product Notes
Building market intelligence for Pokemon cards.
Notes on the market, the data, and the decisions behind CardTrends.
Why CardTrends exists
Pokemon collectors have access to more price numbers than ever. The harder problem is understanding exactly what those numbers describe, where they came from, and whether the supporting market is deep enough to trust them.
The mission
CardTrends exists to make the Pokemon card market more legible. Our goal is to connect each available price to a precise card identity and to the evidence surrounding it. That means treating a Base Set card and a later printing as different products, keeping Near Mint separate from PSA 9 and PSA 10, and showing the source and date behind every observation we publish.
We want a collector to move from a set, to a card, to its current market evidence without losing context along the way. The same card page can then connect to recent activity, certified supply, a watchlist, portfolio holdings, relevant news, and collector discussion.
What we do
At the broadest level, CardTrends is a searchable price catalog for approved mainline Pokemon sets. Where source data is available, each card can show Near Mint, PSA 9, and PSA 10 prices side by side. For selected cards with stronger evidence, we add completed-sale records, observed transaction counts, PSA population, and direct source links.
Home turns that catalog into a market desk. Market Pulse reports new or materially changed source observations. The watchlist highlights actively traded card-grades and their latest observed sale movement. The news tape brings together specialist Pokemon TCG publishers. Community and portfolio tools keep the conversation and personal tracking attached to the same canonical card identities.
How the data system works
Card data rarely arrives in one clean format. Providers use different set names, card numbers, variants, conditions, grades, dates, and identifiers. Our scheduled pipelines collect source data, retain the raw provider records for auditability, normalize those records into a shared identity model, and validate each release before the public app installs it.
The core unit is simple:
card + set + printing + condition or PSA grade
That structure prevents similarly named cards and materially different copies from collapsing into one misleading comparison. It also lets us distinguish the three public price dimensions we care about today: Near Mint, PSA 9, and PSA 10.
We preserve provenance throughout the process. A published observation can carry its provider, observation date, quote status, number of supporting sources, and canonical destination. Completed sales remain distinct from provider quotes and aggregate summaries. When a dimension has no credible observation, the product says it is unavailable.
How we differ from a conventional price guide
Traditional card pricing products are often optimized for fast catalog lookup, collection totals, or a single headline market price. Those are useful jobs. CardTrends is being built for a different question: what evidence is available for this exact card, printing, and grade?
That changes the interface and the product rules. We show multiple price dimensions together. We display sources and dates beside prices. We expose gaps instead of smoothing them away. We separate broad catalog coverage from deeper evidence coverage. We connect market data to news and collector activity rather than leaving each stream in a separate silo.
Our aim is not to create another unexplained number. It is to make the path from source data to the number visible enough that a collector can judge it.
Why research coverage is selective
Broad pricing data and deep market research have different requirements. We can display an available provider quote for many cards, but meaningful sales analysis requires enough transactions, clean identity matching, and dependable supporting data. CardTrends therefore provides broad source-labeled pricing while reserving deeper evidence coverage for the most popular and liquid cards in each approved set.
This resembles research coverage in other markets: define the universe, establish coverage standards, and add cards when the evidence can support the work. Coverage is an explicit status, not a suggestion that an uncovered card is unimportant.
Why valuations are paused
CardTrends began with an experimental relative-value model. We paused public Fair Value estimates and directional signals because the methodology was not yet strong enough to carry the certainty those labels imply. The underlying research remains internal while it is reviewed.
The public product now follows a stricter rule: show verifiable market observations and clearly label their limits. If valuation research returns, it will need documented methods, defensible inputs, transparent assumptions, and evidence that the output improves understanding rather than adding false precision.
What we are building toward
CardTrends is still a public beta. The immediate work is practical: expand reliable mainline-set coverage, improve card identity, refresh market sources consistently, deepen completed-sale evidence, and make every page easier to navigate. Over time, we want CardTrends to become the place collectors use to understand a card's market, not merely look up a price.
If you collect, research, or trade Pokemon cards, your feedback can help set that direction.
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Valuation research is under review.