Sealed Cases Print New Highs, Pitch Black Singles Take the L

New all-time highs

Eight products marked fresh highs as of 2026-07-14, all sealed case product. Paldean Fates Elite Trainer Box Case topped the group at $3538.84. Destined Rivals Sleeved Booster Case hit $1568.89, Surging Sparks Sleeved Booster Pack Case hit $1392.89, and Shining Fates Elite Trainer Box Case hit $1372.20. Further down the list: Evolving Skies Pokemon Center Elite Trainer Box at $987.24, Shrouded Fable Elite Trainer Box Case at $948.86, Arceus V Figure Collection Case at $894.00, and Shining Legends Elite Trainer Box at $893.83. Sealed case product continues to do the heavy lifting; no singles made this list.

Sitting on the ATH doorstep

Five cards are within half a percent of their own record. Luxray - SWSH023 (Prerelease) Staff sits at $81.43 versus an $81.84 high, -0.5%. Rocket's Hitmonchan is at $130.95 against $131.61, -0.5%. Sabrina's Gengar trades at $600.87 versus a $603.90 peak from 2025-03-27, -0.5%. League Battle Decks Pikachu & Zekrom GX is at $217.45 against $218.57, -0.5%. Sabrina's Haunter sits at $57.65 versus $57.95, -0.5%.

7-day gainers

Alakazam E4 Lv.X ran from $100.00 to $300.00, +200.0%, on a book of 12 listings, thin for a 3x move. Nidoking (H18) went $120.00 to $230.98, +92.5%, depth 30. Steelix - 125/214 (Cosmos Holo) moved $9.21 to $16.92, +83.7%, no depth reading. Lucario - 14/95 (Cracked Ice Holo) climbed $15.97 to $28.58, +79.0%, depth 77. Pikachu (French) rose $110.98 to $192.99, +73.9%, backed by 421 listings, the deepest book of the batch.

7-day losers

Pitch Black singles dominate the downside. Armarouge - 086/084 fell $99.99 to $24.21, -75.8%, depth 9. Mega Chandelure ex - 038/084 dropped $7.97 to $3.63, -54.5%, depth 44. Mega Darkrai ex - 048/084 went $19.96 to $10.20, -48.9%, depth 56. Primarina - 088/084 slid $79.99 to $46.52, -41.8%, depth 9. Gladion's Final Battle - 108/084 fell $49.98 to $29.24, -41.5%, depth 26. Outside that set, Zekrom - 066/182 (Cosmos Holo) dropped $11.92 to $2.18, -81.7%, on a deep 531-listing book, so this one is a real repricing, not a thin-book fluke. Genesect - BW101 went $68.00 to $39.34, -42.1%, no depth on file. Electrode lost $8.80 to $5.35, -39.2%, depth 787. These are reports on where price landed this week, not forecasts on where it goes next.

1-day spikes

Riolu (Cracked Ice Holo) jumped $16.43 to $25.51, +55.3%, no depth listed. Alakazam E4 Lv.X added another leg intraday, $200.00 to $300.00, +50.0%, depth 12, same thin book as its weekly number above. Trubbish - 2016 (Shunto Sadahiro) moved $6.23 to $9.20, +47.7%. Scraggy - 7/12 went $139.99 to $199.99, +42.9%. Ultra Ball - 68a/73 (League Cup) Staff rose $46.07 to $59.55, +29.3%.

Solo-variant watch

Three reverse holo prints moved while their base-set siblings held still, the standard signature of a repricing artifact rather than a real demand shift. Zubat reverse holo went $8.26 to $17.33, +109.8%, depth 27. Jirachi reverse holo went $27.69 to $55.17, +99.2%, depth 6. Vileplume reverse holo went $7.29 to $14.21, +94.9%, depth 5. Treat these as one listing moving the tape, not a market call.

Artist premiums

Hot: Asako Ito commands a 9.52x premium across 34 cards. Keiko Fukuyama sits at 3.73x across 20 cards. Susumu Maeya is at 2.41x across 10 cards.

Cold: "Big Mama" Tagawa trades at 0.26x across 16 cards. Milky Isobe sits at 0.27x across 23 cards. Kazuo Yazawa is at 0.49x across 9 cards.

Scoreboard, honestly

The desk's own gainer-flag signal hit 22% of the time over 7 days (5 of 23), average return +3.5%. The loser-flag signal hit 19% of the time (4 of 21), but averaged +10.8%, meaning the flagged losers mostly bounced rather than kept falling. File that under: fade the panic, not the chart.

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Numbers from the TickerMint pipeline. Every call is scored publicly on the scoreboard.