Day Trading Post 1 Million + Budget

Hey Guys, 

I love refreshing this information at the start of the new month to keep it current and distribute the information to new joins! 

Day trading can be called quite a few different things including trend trading, fluctuation trading, flipping, but it's all one in the same. This technique is revolved around buying cards on low fluctuations and selling at higher fluctuations that occur each day.

This technique is amazing because you are not reliant on EA at all to make coins and it's something you can do constantly. How many coins you make can simply be multiplied by time, budget and efficiency.

Let's start with the basics. Why do cards fluctuate each day?

Cards cannot stay one price all the time. The market moves based on supply and demand. At different periods, demand may outweigh supply or vice versa. This is best seen and utilized with cards who are OUT OF PACKS (OOP). If an inform has no supply and 10-15 get bought within the hour we should expect the price to slowly be moving up. People are buying the cheap cards pushing up the price. Other times, there are simply a lot less cards listed as there may be less people on the game making the cards more rare.

These cards move up and down throughout the day. The movement is usually pretty subtle, but it can look upwards of 10% each day. These are the cards we look for in terms of day trading. We're looking for a 10% fluctuation since EA tax is 5% that will leave us with at least 5% profit after tax, which is always the goal!

With this formula, no matter which cards you buy, you would make around 5-10K on every 100K spent!

For an example, let's say a card fluctuates between 50-57K each day. Overall, it's not much, but it IS enough to profit. If you buy the card at the low point and sell at the high you would make 4.1K after tax. This is on just one card.

In this case, we’ll focus on cards over 50K for those on a little higher budget. I also plan to do one for the lower budget side, but I tend to prefer silver trading, fodders or non rares to build the budget up!

Right now, we have a huge SBC in the Icon Player Pick and I expect people to continue to complete the SBC in the coming days! After rewards on Thursday, I expect a huge boost of completion due to the coin influx. It's likely many are waiting to receive rewards to get more untradables or have enough coins to do it.

As I mentioned in Discord, there are so many informs that are fluctuating well from SBC solutions! This will be really big this week!

SIF Lewandowski

TIF Benzema

IF Benzema

IF Kane

IF Kroos

IF Handanovic

 IF Patricio

IF Mkhitaryan

IF Ndidi 

IF Paulinho 

IF Kostic

IF Gaya

This list in particular is going to be good while there are 85+ squads that require an inform! I wanted to make this note as it's pretty specific to the current content! Next, we will look at a more META selection! 

SIF = Second Inform

Mentions Marquinhos 

IF Firmino 

TOTGS Gomez

Record Breaker Donarumma (Xbox only) 

IF Henderson

IF/SIF Lautaro Martinez - Cards that have multiple informs are some of the best cards to trade. They are harder to find and can sit on the market longer. You will see a lot on the list!

SIF Depay 

IF/SIF Haaland - Xbox only. PS is okay, just better fluctuations Xbox.

IF Goretzka 

IF Mahrez

RTTF Diaby 

IF Lenglet

SIF Delaney

IF Valverde - Xbox

TOTGS Kimmich 

Freeze Chiellini

IF Casemiro

IF/SIF Lozano

IF Cancelo

RTTF Promes - Fluctuating really well since the trade 

IF Raphinha - Will slowly recover after Raphinha SBC ends, too

IF Cuadrado

IF Llorente

Headliner Fabinho

RTTF Bebou - Better PS

IF Tierney 

Tierney fluctuates does consistently freeze 85>95 on Xbox as you can see

IF Upamecano 

IF Neuer - Xbox

Future Stars Bastoni 

Let's talk about some other things to be aware of regarding day trading!

1. Substitute/Complimentary Trading

The latest SBC to cause some big movements I can reference is Curtis Jones! Jones had an extremely high completion and the majority of people wanted his CM version. Due to the  extremely high completion, CM's dropped in price quite heavily over the coming days. They were likely on the low of their graph, but with market knowledge you would know why they are dropping. 

On the other hand, English links to Jones would rise really well! 

2. Position Changes/Chem Styles

This one is massive and can add so much value to your trading. Daily fluctuations are based on ANY listings.

As you get familiar with this concept, you can often have a few different buy prices for each card making finding deals even easier.

Maybe you know the low of IF Bamba is 22K so you look to buy ANY of his cards at that price. You could also buy IF Bamba with Hunters up to 23K and look to sell higher, too!

It's little things that add up the daily profit!

3. Listing/Lazy Buyers

If you get a low fluctuation on a card, I recommend immediately listing around the price you want to sell at. This year more than ever I see tons of lazy buyers. The market filters still don't work well especially on open bids. This can cause some bids to run high and people may just buy the next one they see out of frustration.

After every card I buy I list every single hour I can! If I am going to bed, I list for 6 hours overnight. That's how I recommend listing every day trading card to optimize profits.

4, Market Movements

The market follows some key patterns particularly pertaining to META cards. The META market is usually highest on Thursday-Friday and quite low on Sunday/Monday. This means you may have to adjust prices subtly during these times. For example, a card may go 5% under their normal low on Sunday. A card may also go 5-10% over their high on Thursday or Friday.

This schedule flows with Thursday rewards and Weekend League. On Thursday and Friday, a majority of players are looking to build their teams for Rivals and Weekend League. Once they complete their games, they sell their team leading to the price declines on Sunday.