These are reports, not verdicts. A card down on the week lagged the market this week, nothing more.
One-Day Spikes
Mr. Mime - 2013 (Jason Klaczynski) jumped +59.1% to $8.75 in a single session, depth unreported. Raikou Star added +45.5% intraday on its way to the new $1600.00 high, on just 5 listings. Ninetales (H19) rose +28.0% to $399.99, depth 20. Gastly up +25.7% to $29.14, depth unreported. Typhlosion ex up +23.4% to $251.80, depth 49.
Solo-Variant Watch
Three moves flagged as solo-variant: the printing in question moved while its siblings sat still, a pattern that reads more like a repricing artifact than genuine demand. Parasect (Reverse Holofoil) up +137.0% to $40.00 on depth 8. Pidgeotto (Reverse Holofoil) up +95.5% to $15.17 on depth 12. Gengar (5) (1st Edition Holofoil) up +90.8% to $601.49 on depth 57. Treat these as one listing repricing a thin printing, not a market call.
Artist Premiums
Hot: Asako Ito commands a 9.15x premium across 35 cards, Keiko Fukuyama 4.03x across 20, Susumu Maeya 2.87x across 10, Kazuaki Aihara 2.18x across 12, Yuka Morii 2.13x across a broad 194 cards.
Cold: "Big Mama" Tagawa sits at 0.23x across 16 cards, Milky Isobe at 0.28x across 23, Kazuo Yazawa at 0.50x across 9, Takumi Akabane at 0.53x across 50, Shin-ichi Yoshikawa at 0.57x across 50.
Track Record
Monthly mint alerts hit 21% within 7 days (16 of 75), averaging +2.4%. Seven day gainer calls hit 24% (18 of 76), averaging +0.6%. Seven day loser calls hit 47% (43 of 91), averaging -8.9%, the desk's best performing signal by a wide margin, for whatever that says about calling drops versus calling pumps.
Numbers from the TickerMint pipeline. Every call is scored publicly on the scoreboard.
Mew+96.1% $335.54
Darkrai EX (107 Full Art)+87.8% $789.99
Combusken - 13/111 (Arena Cup Championships)+76.1% $24.65
Shining Steelix+74.7% $471.66
Lugia - 29/115 (Pokemon Rocks America)+72.0% $125.00
Lightning Energy (WotC 2002 League Promo)+71.1% $36.10
Jirachi EX (98 Full Art)+68.4% $189.95
Giratina EX (124 Full Art)+67.6% $469.95