Case Boxes Hit New Highs While Staff Promos Give Back Gains
Sealed case product prints fresh all-time highs across five sets as a batch of Mega Evolution staff promos and one Aquapolis single give up ground over the past week.
KEY POINTS
›Top 7d gainer: Professor Elm's Training Method (2006-2007) +98.5% to $99.00
›Top 7d loser: Suicune (H25) -50.0% to $225.00
›New all-time high: 30th Celebration Elite Trainer Box Case at $1848.67
Three moves flagged as solo-variant. Weedle Reverse Holofoil doubled, 11.36 to 22.68, up 99.6%, but no depth listed and only this printing moved while siblings sat still. Read that as a repricing artifact, not demand. Pidgeotto Reverse Holofoil jumped 7.76 to 15.17, up 95.5% on depth 12, same story: one variant moved, the rest didn't. Gengar (5) 1st Edition Holofoil rose 315.25 to 601.49, up 90.8% on the deepest book of the three at 115, still flagged solo-variant. Bigger book, same caveat.
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, Yuka Morii 2.19x across the largest sample at 195, Kazuaki Aihara 2.18x across 12. Cold: "Big Mama" Tagawa sits at 0.26x across 16 cards, Milky Isobe at 0.28x across 22, Kazuo Yazawa 0.50x across 9, Takumi Akabane 0.54x across 50, Shin-ichi Yoshikawa 0.57x across 50.
Track record
Monthly mint alerts hit 22% at 7 days (17 of 78) for an average return of +2.0%. Seven-day gainer signals hit 23% at 7 days (18 of 77, avg +0.4%) but improve to 40% at 30 days (4 of 10, avg +10.1%), small sample. Seven-day loser signals hit 46% at 7 days (43 of 93, avg -8.8%) but fade to 30% at 30 days (3 of 10, avg +1.5%). The losers that keep losing mostly stop within a week; past that, plenty bounce.
Numbers from the TickerMint pipeline. Every call is scored publicly on the scoreboard.
Professor Elm's Training Method (2006-2007)+98.5% $99.00
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
Alakazam Star+66.7% $1500.00