FIFA 23 Market tips You NEED to know
As with every new FIFA year, for a lot of people this might be the first time of trying to get to know the market. Some of you might already have some experience. However, I’m sure that at least some of the tips and topics discussed in this article will help you out, regardless of your previous FIFA and trading experience.
Without wasting any more time, let’s get into it!
Efficiency
Being one of the most important aspects of trading, getting as much done on the market in the least amount of time is key. Trading on FIFA shouldn’t be hard or take up too much time.
Find the trading method that suits you best. Be open-minded to a range of trading methods/styles, explore and find out what you’re best at. That will ensure you’re spending your time on the market in the most effective way (for you).
Budget Management
Be aware of your budget and manage it correctly. For instance, don’t trade with cards worth 50.000 coins if you only have 100.000. Gradually build it up with lower value cards. The more cards you can buy at the same time, the more you’ll be able to sell and in turn make more profit.
If you’re going to be serious about trading, don’t put more than 30% of your liquid coins into a team. To make some serious damage with your coins, the more free capital you have available to play around with, the better.
Risk Management
Regardless of what you’re trading with, don’t be afraid to take some occasional risks. It’s all for fun and knowledge gained + if the risk pays off, you’re sitting with some more coins made. On the other hand, don’t be scared to take losses. All of us do, even the most experienced traders. All losses make you more knowledgeable as an independent trader. In the long run, for one bad trade, you’ll pull off ten excellent ones.
Use FUTWIZ Price Graphs and Sold Prices page
Throughout the whole year, never forget to take advantage of the free price data that is available to you to enhance your trading ability and experience. Looking at how cards are fluctuating and what they’re actually selling for gives you a massive advantage to properly carrying out successful trades.
Make sure you’re always selling
No matter what, have listings active. Whether it’s Silver/Gold/TOTW/Icon cards, keep on listing and being active. Also sell cards overnight by listing for 6 or 12 hours before going to sleep.
Try to avoid spending big on player SBCs
It’s understandable they’re fun or at the time they seem like a good card but soon after we realise the card is already outdated and we’re left asking “Why did I spend 200.000 on this?” Fact is they’re untradable meaning you’ll never get the value back. Focus on buying cards from the market if you want to fill in a gap in your squad. You’ll be able to sell them and most of the time there will be 5 different options that are better than what the SBC is offering.
However, this doesn’t mean you should categorically never complete player SBCs. It’s a game, so it’s important to enjoy it in your way, but if you’re wanting to prioritise coin making, being selective about them is key.
Don’t follow the pack
Something a lot of people do wrong is they follow what everyone else does. Take investing for example, what happens when everyone invests in the same cards? They get over-invested and lose value as people scramble to sell them at the same time. (In fact we’ll see this soon as people invest in the same potential *OOP cards. Investors buying other investors cards in a pyramid scheme)
Promo and market preparation
Be aware of upcoming promos and things that impact areas of the market. Always make sure you know when and what is coming so you can better prepare yourself.
Anything from an SBC to a big content/pack promo can create huge changes in the market and cause your owned cards to take a dip in value.
In cases where it’s largely unknown, go liquid by selling your assets ahead of time. Try to not panic sell though, that should go without saying.
Player Secondary positions
A new addition for FIFA 23 is all cards offering certain secondary positions. This will very likely impact the prices of specific cards that have many different favourable positions that they can be modified to. Like certain LWs/RWs to ST, LBs/RBs to CB and many others. Potentially we might see these versatile cards be valued higher than usual because they offer a lot more in terms of squad building options. Be on the lookout for possible ways to trade with this new game aspect when starting out.
What does no 10h EA Play trial ahead of release mean for the market?
As you probably already know, the Web App is confirmed to release on September 21st. Interestingly, unlike previous years, we’d be expecting to utilise a 10 hour trial of the game sometime before full release but that is not the case this year. The trial is set on the same date as the Ultimate Edition release which is September 27th.
That means the Web App phase is going to be a whole 6 days long and with no trial to bridge the gap until the 27th. This will likely lead to previously unseen movements in the market as essentially no one is in need of a squad for almost a full week.
It is possible that the market for this reason starts out extremely cheap and rises sharp over the first few days going into release. However, there are still many variables that could massively shift the market in positive or negative ways that we can’t predict just yet.
Trading Terminology
To end off, here’s a handy list of the most popular abbreviations you might encounter being around the trading community.
BP – Buy Price. The price at which you bought an item.
SP – Sell Price. The price at which you sold an item.
PAT – Profit After Tax. The profit (in coins) from a certain trade/investment.
PPC – Profit Per Card. The profit after tax per each card sold.
ROI – Return On Investment. The profit (in %) from a certain trade/investment.
BIN – Buy It Now. The price you can immediately buy a card on the market.
BID – An action where instead of buying the card for BIN, you try and buy an item auction style.
WL – Weekend League.
SB – Squad Battles.
MM – Marquee Matchups.
SBC – Squad Building Challenge.
BPM – Bronze Pack Method.
HR – High Rated. Cards usually 86+ in overall rating.
LR – Lightning Rounds. Promo packs released in the store during a big promo.
FLIPPING – A term used when buying a card and selling it for a higher price.
OOP – Out Of Packs. Cards that are no longer supplied via packs.
DISCARD VALUE – A card worth nearly the same as its quick sell price.
META – A term used to describe good/usable players.
FODDER – Cards which are heavily used in certain SBCs.
EA TAX – When selling any item on the market, EA applies a 5% tax. Example: Card sold for 1000c. You receive 950c.
That’s about it for now!
Of course this is far from all that the FIFA market has to offer but hopefully all of this gave you some new insights into trading or gave you extra knowledge on a certain topic. I will be diving into a lot more details and specifics about certain trading methods and covering many aspects of the market as we get going with FIFA 23. Also be on the lookout for a Web App specific article coming sometime before it launches!
Thank you for reading! I hope you enjoyed it and learnt something new!
