Sealed Cases Hit New Highs, Vintage Singles Take the Elevator Down
Eight sealed products printed fresh all-time highs while a cluster of EX-era holos and reverse holos gave back double-digit percentages inside a week.
KEY POINTS
- ›Top 7d gainer: Telepathic Psychic Energy - 088/088 (Cosmos Holo) +82.0% to $13.41
- ›Top 7d loser: Haunter -50.6% to $2.57
- ›New all-time high: 151 Elite Trainer Box Case at $5653.89
- ›5 cards near all-time highs
- ›Hottest artist: Asako Ito at 9.48x premium
New All-Time Highs
Sealed product did the heavy lifting this cycle. 151 Elite Trainer Box Case marked $5653.89. Celebrations Ultra-Premium Collection Case hit $4992.94. Prismatic Evolutions Pokemon Center Elite Trainer Box (Exclusive) Case reached $2638.46. Crown Zenith Pokemon Center Elite Trainer Box Plus Case touched $2295.00. Vivid Voltage Booster Box Case printed $1806.36. Prismatic Evolutions Booster Bundle Display closed at $1646.10, Black Bolt Booster Bundle Display at $1378.76, and White Flare Booster Bundle Display at $1044.00. Eight highs, zero singles among them. The case market is doing its own thing.
Sitting Near the Highs
A handful of names are a rounding error from joining the list. Luxray - SWSH023 (Prerelease) [Staff] sits at $81.43, off -0.5% from its $81.84 ATH set 2026-05-04. Sabrina's Gengar is at $600.87, -0.5% off its $603.90 peak from 2025-03-27. Rocket's Scyther trades at $85.01, -0.5% off $85.44 (2026-02-28). Costco Pokemon Scarlet & Violet 151 Mini Tin 5-pack (Magneton) is at $283.73, -0.5% off $285.19 (2026-06-18). League Battle Decks [Pikachu & Zekrom GX] sits at $217.45, -0.5% off $218.57 (2026-06-05).
7-Day Gainers
Telepathic Psychic Energy - 088/088 (Cosmos Holo) ran from $7.37 to $13.41, +82.0% on a book of 18 listings. Zapdos ex went $149.00 to $269.97, +81.2% on 11 listings, thin enough to notice. Flygon moved $20.58 to $35.68, +73.4% across 24 listings. Pikachu (Baby) climbed $56.34 to $95.00, +68.6% on a much deeper book of 478. Swampert ex - 2004 (Reed Weichler) jumped $9.86 to $16.57, +68.1% on just 7 listings. Cherrim rose $54.32 to $89.99, +65.7% on 16. Mega Excadrill ex - 103/084 added $5.99 to $9.50, +58.6% on a solid 520-listing book. Wurmple went $9.47 to $14.98, +58.2% on 16 listings. Marowak - 78/162 (Pokemon League) [4th Place] gained $21.95 to $33.65, +53.3% on only 4 listings.
7-Day Losers
Haunter fell $5.20 to $2.57, -50.6%, but the book has 2300 listings, so this reads as noise more than signal. Snover - 101/123 dropped $19.95 to $10.16, -49.1%. Primarina - 020/084 (What's Your Favorite Stamp) went $18.93 to $9.93, -47.5% on 52 listings. Venusaur ex slid $501.00 to $276.99, -44.7% on 50 listings, lagging the rest of the FireRed & LeafGreen ex run this week. Delphox - 074 dropped $13.96 to $7.94, -43.1%. Medicham ex fell $75.98 to $46.37, -39.0% on 14 listings. Genesect - BW101 went $39.34 to $26.52, -32.6%. Dawn Wings Necrozma GX - 63/156 (Ultra Prism) dropped $7.41 to $5.00, -32.5% on 8 listings. Ampharos - 075 fell $15.38 to $10.62, -30.9%. Rare Candy - 142/168 (League Cup) [Staff] dropped $75.86 to $53.99, -28.8% on a thin 4-listing book. None of this is a forecast. It's a report of last week's tape.
1-Day Spikes
Ampharos V (Full Art) jumped $6.86 to $10.56 in a day, +53.9%. Grass Energy (2009 Unnumbered POP Promo) went $5.64 to $7.58, +34.4%. Telepathic Psychic Energy - 088/088 (Cosmos Holo) added another leg, $10.07 to $13.41, +33.2% on 18 listings, stacking on top of its 7-day move above. Swampert - 35/168 (SM Celestial Storm) rose $6.00 to $7.93, +32.2%. Pokemon GO Poke Ball Tin - Great Ball climbed $30.82 to $40.73, also +32.2%.
Solo-Variant Watch
Three reverse holos posted big numbers while their normal-print siblings did nothing, which is the classic signature of a repricing artifact rather than genuine demand. Ledyba reverse holo went $14.87 to $33.83, +127.5% on 20 listings. Staryu - 085/113 reverse holo moved $8.00 to $16.22, +102.8% on 130 listings. Voltorb reverse holo doubled from $10.00 to $20.00 on just 6 listings. Treat these as listing quirks until the base variant confirms.
Artist Premiums
Hot: Asako Ito commands a 9.48x premium across 35 cards, Keiko Fukuyama 3.27x across 20, Susumu Maeya 2.31x across 10, Yuka Morii 2.11x across a wide 196-card sample, Kazuaki Aihara 2.02x across 12. Cold: Milky Isobe and "Big Mama" Tagawa both sit at 0.28x (23 and 17 cards respectively), Kazuo Yazawa at 0.52x across 9, Takumi Akabane at 0.54x across 50, ConceptLab at 0.57x across 20.
Track Record
The scoreboard keeps its own ledger. Monthly mint alerts hit 24% at a 7-day horizon (11 of 46), average return +2.8%. Seven-day gainer calls hit 24% (13 of 55), average +1.3%. Seven-day loser calls hit 52% (35 of 67), average -13.2%, the desk's best-performing signal by a wide margin, for what that says about calling drops versus calling pumps.
Numbers from the TickerMint pipeline. Every call is scored publicly on the scoreboard.
