Trading with 10k

This is a lot easier than a lot of people would think. On my YouTube channel I have a series where I have started from 10k. Currently, there are two episodes up and a third coming soon. I started with about 15k and currently have 65k halfway through episode three. I should be able to hit 75k+ depending on the deals that I am able to find. Now you're probably wondering how I did this. It's quite simple actually and I'm going to teach you how I do it.

First, I am going to show you how to set up the auction search so you are able to find good deals. Basically, you want to be searching for gold players in a popular league in good formations. Then you want to set the minimum and maximum prices to 550 and 650. This is what your auction search should look like. 

You don't have to use the BPL and you don't have to stick to just 4-1-2-1-2. You can use any league and I would recommend reaching out to other formations as well. When you pull up this search loads of players will pop up. Don't bid on every single player you see. The first few times you do this I would recommend adding them to your watch list and then check the prices when you've gotten up to the one hour mark. 

Once you have added the players to your watch list, go back to the auction search and start checking prices. If you have not read my article about checking players prices then click here. In order to make profit using this method you must check prices using the lowest buy now. Then you want to calculate a 400 coin profit, but make sure you remember tax. When you are bidding to win these players just go up by the regular increments until you hit the maximum price you want to pay for the player. 

Now this is the most important part of making profit. Listing the players at a price someone will buy them at, but not listing as the lowest buy now is very important. If you list it at the lowest buy now it will sell faster, but  other people will try to list it as the lowest buy now, so you will destroy the price of the player by doing that. You want to match the lowest buy now on the market or put it up for a few hundred coins more than the lowest buy now. 

As you can see above there are two 4-1-2-1-2 CDM Wilsheres on the market. They are both at a price of 4700. This is good because I have searched for a minimum of 5k. I would list my Wilshere up at a 5k buy now because once these two cards are bought then I will own the lowest buy now on the market. Also if people see that the next lowest buy now is 5k they will be more likely to buy the 4700 coins ones since they still have the possibility of making profit on those two cards. This isn't usually the case with most players. Most players have a range of buy nows. What I mean by that is that the card has one up at a 2k buy now, three up at a 2100 coin buy now, and three up at a 2300 coin buy now. If this is the case you will want to put your card up at the 2100 coin buy now because there is only one card at 2k which will be bought fairly quickly. Then you will be competing to sell your card with two other cards. Your card will eventually get bought and you will make 100 extra coin profit on the card than you originally calculated.

Now that we know how to find the price were going to sell at you must know how to list the player in order to not lose money. Far too often do I see people list players up for a cheap start price and the price they want to sell at as the buy now. People WILL buy your player is there is only a few hundred coins between the start price and buy now. When listing a card this is what it should look like.

As you can see, there is only 100 coins between the two prices. People will buy players that are put up on auction like this. It ensures that you are making profit, whereas if you put this card up for a 1k start price and a 1500 buy now, someone may get lucky and buy the card for 1k. 

Now, there's one last thing that your probably wondering. "What if my card doesn't get bought?" There are two answers for this. Either you can lower the price by one increment at a time or you can check the lowest buy now again and see if the price has changed. Whatever you do don't get discouraged and list the player up for a really cheap price. You will eventually be able to sell the player for some profit.

This method hasn't been working very well lately as people are buying cheaper teams because of TOTS. The more expensive players have been declining rapidly in price. I would guess that after TOTS you will be able to use this method pretty easily again. Before TOTS, I was making close to 50k/day using this method, but now I'm able to pick up far fewer players at bargain prices.

This method may not seem like its getting you anywhere, but it is. If you add up all of the 400 coin profits you will be making 4k off of every 10 cards and if you learn the market well you can pick up cards left and right. You can usually pick up 20 cards every hour or so you do this if you know how. It does take time and the rewards seem low, but if you actually are trying to multiply your 10k this is the best method for it. Before I leave you to try the method out I want to tell you that the more money you have the more profit you can make per hour. If you have hundreds of thousands of coins you can still use this method and make loads of coins. I used this method until I hit 300k on my main account. I hope this works well for you and I wish you all luck.

If you want to contact me, it would be best if you sent me a message on Twitter or YouTube because I can not promise that I will check the comments on this blog. If you have any questions at all I would gladly help you to the best of my ability and if there is anything you want me to cover. Also, if you would like to see my trading in action check out the series on my YouTube channel. (link is above)

Finding a Players Price

Finding a players price is something that is very important when you are buying and selling players. You don't want to over pay or under sell. Now I'm sure most of you are saying "yeah, yeah, yeah, I know how to do this already". I can guarantee you that there will be some people that don't. Far too often do I see players loose money by putting players up for prices that are half of what the player is really worth. This could be easily changed if you had taken the time to read this post. There are two ways to do this and I will give you the pros and the cons of each method.

1. Using a Database

- ultimatedb.nl

- futhead.com

- futwiz.com

When I first started playing FIFA 12 this is how I appraised my players. Honestly, it didn't turn out too well because after about two months I still had a measly 10k. I would recommend using a database as a ROUGH estimate. When I say rough I mean ROUGH. At times there will be prices of players that are way under or over they're actual price. If the price on the database is less than the actual value, no big deal you just lose the bids, but if the database tells you that a player is worth 10k that's really worth 2k your in a tough spot.

Pros:

- Quickly Accessible

- Gives you a Good Estimate

Cons:

- NOT 100% Accurate

- Can be Glitchy at Times

2. Checking the Lowest BIN (Buy It Now)

This is my preferred method for checking prices. When trading, lowest BIN is your friend. You want to put your players up for the lowest BIN or one of the lowest BINs. All you have to do to find the lowest buy now is go to the auction search and enter the details of the player you are trying to find. In the maximum BIN area you are going to enter the price of the lowest BIN price. 

When you pull this search up you will find that Hernandez's lowest BIN is 1k. This means that you will be able to sell him at or around this price, it really depends on the formation.

Pros:

- As Accurate as You Can Get

- Memorize Prices/Players Quickly

Cons:

- Takes Time

- Isn't 100% Accurate if there is a Limited Supply of the Player

Overall, both methods are helpful in different ways. If you are quickly trying to put a bid on a player at the last second, you will probably want to use a database. If that's not the case then you should use the lowest BIN to appraise your players. I personally use a combination of both methods. Which one I use depends on what player I'm bidding on and whether or not I'm feeling lazy. Like I said before, I know most of you know this, but there are people out there that are still learning.

If you want to contact me, it would be best if you sent me a message on Twitter or YouTube because I can not promise that I will check the comments on this blog. If you have any questions at all I would gladly help you to the best of my ability and if there is anything you want me to cover.

Finding Someone to Trade With

This may be easier than you think. On average, there are roughly 1 millions cards on the market. Let's just assume that 800 thousand of those cards are player cards. I'm going to say that maybe 200 thousand of those cards are up for prices that no one is going to buy them at. That leaves roughly 600 thousand cards that you can make profit off of. 

Deciding who to trade with is sometimes hard. It is mainly dependent on how much money you have. The reason I say this is because you NEVER want to put all of your money into a single player and you NEVER want to spend all of your coins at once. When you have low amounts of coins probably under 30k I would suggest trading with players with a price range of 1k-2k. I say this because if your making 400 coins profit per card you will be able to buy 20-40 cards or so. This may not sound like much initially, but 20 at 400 coin profit per card adds up to 8k. That is a 25% increase in coins. If you are experienced enough at trading you will be able to buy about 20 cards per hour and make anywhere from 400-1500 coins per card when you get lucky. If you are making 8k/hour and you trade for 4 hours you have already doubled your coins. All of this is given that you have the constant rate of 20 cards, but as you build up coins you will be able to trade on a much larger scale. When I had 200k I was still trading with players worth about 2k and making about 50k/day. I was trading for maybe 3 hours a day as well.

With higher amounts of money probably about 50k+ I would say you could trade with players that are worth about 7-10k and look to make at least 1k profit on a card if you can. When you have a few hundred thousand then I would say its a good idea to start trading with cards worth 20k and up. 

Now you probably want to know how to find players to trade with. This isn't all that hard. What I usually do is I calculate what I am willing to trade up to. So say 2k. I then go to the auction search and put 3k in the minimum bid and 5k in the maximum bid. Your probably wondering why I do this now. As I've mentioned before, people tend to put players up for buy it nows higher than the average price. This allows you to fish out players worth around 1k while also allowing you to not have players worth over 5k show up. If you want to further check a players price just enter their information in the auction search. Then use the lowest buy it now to find the players price. Then what you want to do is calculate a buying price. First, figure out your selling price and then the EA tax of the selling price. At 2k, there is a 100 coin tax. That means you really get 1900 coins back from the sale. Then, you need to make profit of course. I tend to aim for 400 coins, so you don't want to bid over 1500 coins for a player worth 2k. Before every trading session I would recommend checking the players price just to make sure the price hasn't done anything funny.

NOTE: MAKE SURE YOU CALCULATE EA TAX INTO YOUR SELLING PRICE!

Tax Calculator

Calculator Setup

EA tax is 5%, so you want to calculate 95% of the price you are selling the player at. Once you have entered this data you will have the amount of coins you will receive back from the player if you sell him at the price specified in the sale price box. 

If you want to contact me, it would be best if you sent me a message on Twitter or YouTube because I can not promise that I will check the comments on this blog. If you have any questions at all I would gladly help you to the best of my ability and if there is anything you want me to cover.

Reviewsdays Returns! (But Goes By A New Name)

So a while back, when this blog was in its infancy, I created some series to keep myself to a posting schedule and to let you guys know what topics I would be posting about. But whilst exams were going on this all went a little bit out the window and since then I have transitioned to YouTube, bringing bits and pieces of this blog with me. One of the pieces which did not make it was Reviewsdays. This was mostly because my YouTube channel is about my gaming and this series is about anything and everything meaning that the YouTube channel would limit the series too much and, well, you get the idea.

So in the style of current Hollywood culture, Reviewsdays is getting a reboot. No I'm not saying it will have better visuals at the expense of the writing. Instead it is going to be revamped and revitalised.

First of all it is going to be at least once a week but no longer limited to a specific day, meaning that if I watch a cool movie on Wednesday, I'm telling you on Wednesday. Or if I hear an awesome song on Saturday morning, you'll know on Saturday afternoon. the point is; it's easier for me and better for you. Following from that, it will leave me open to doing multiple reviews throughout the week if I find enough worth talking about.

Secondly I won't be the sole author of this series allowing a variety of views and opinions to be heard and to allow you to draw your own conclusion from them. Personally, I get annoyed when something I like is trashed by some narrow minded reviewer looking to get some publicity out of causing controversy and so to stop you guys hating me for my opinion, which is all I really have to offer, I'm going to try and mix things up a bit, and so I will be collaborating with others on reviews.

Lastly, the name Reviewsdays was just me trying to be punny (get it?) and now that I am trying to clean up this blog and change its whole purpose of being, Reviewsdays will be changed to R View. I know! Kind of cool right?


So enjoy R View and be sure to tell us your view by leaving a comment and subcribing!

My Credibility

My Leader Board Status

This is not simply where I am going to brag about my trading success. This is simply to show you that I know what I am doing on the FUT Marketplace. I have made over one million coins in profit in the last two months. I started my journey with a measly 10k after someone hacked me for 200k and honestly I am glad they hacked me because I never would have began trading if they hadn't. Unfortunately for me, EA will not contact me back even though I have sent four messages to them about the guy that hacked me. I don't really care anymore if I get my money back, but I just want an answer from EA. Anyway, I'm throwing around some big numbers that may seem unreachable to some of you, but I promise you that you will learn from what I have to teach. 

*I currently only have 700k even though the leader board says otherwise. The leader board does not take out the money that you give to EA through taxes.*

The most amount of profit I have made in one day is 150k. I was trading with informs when I came across a MOTM Muller (Worth about 400k) that was still at a 1k bid with 3 minutes left. I immediately put up a 30k bid. He got down to about 30 seconds when someone outbid me by 250 coins. We went up by the standard intervals until either the other guy gave up or had no more coins. I spent probably around 20 minutes just bidding on this one player. I eventually picked him up for just under 250k and immediately put him up for 400k. He sold for a little under 390k. If thats not profit I don’t know what is. Anyway back to my accomplishments, before the release of the first TOTS, I was making roughly 20k-50k per day. TOTS messed me up because all of the prices of players plummeted and I became unfamiliar with the market. Now I’ve been relying on investing to make money and I’m earning roughly 100k-200k per week for a few hours of work.

If you want to contact me, it would be best if you sent me a message on Twitter or YouTube because I can not promise that I will check the comments on this blog. If you have any questions at all I would gladly help you to the best of my ability and if there is anything you want me to cover.

Introduction

I feel like a good starting point would be to introduce myself. I am InfPlaysHD. I play video games for fun and enjoy editing, so YouTube was a great way for me to do both at once. I play on the PS3, but I am thinking about switching to the computer because it would be nice to have all of my games and editing software all on the same machine, but anyway, on to what you most likely came here for, trading. I will attempt to teach people the complex art that trading is. If all goes well I will be writing entries every Tuesday and Thursday. I can't make any guarantees because I usually forget about things or don't get around to them. Now, your probably asking "why are you doing this?" The reason is rather simple. I am continuously asked how I make so many coins and my answer to that is usually buy low sell high. People then inquire for some sort of method and I tell them I don’t actually have one. Truthfully, I do have a few methods, but they are all over the internet and are no secret. I am just too lazy to explain them. In Fifa 12, I was one of those people that searched YouTube for methods that would work for me and none seemed to work. I feel like that is where a lot of people are at these days. My solution to this problem is simple. My solution is to teach the basics of trading to everyone, so they can use these methods and actually get somewhere with them.

If you want to contact me, it would be best if you sent me a message on Twitter or YouTube because I can not promise that I will check the comments on this blog. If you have any questions at all I would gladly help you to the best of my ability and if there is anything you want me to cover. I will also be occasionally writing trading methods and I will attempt to use as many pictures as possible to make it easily comprehensible.

Tramp City

Tramp city is my Minecraft "server" on the Xbox 360 edition of the game. On this map I, along with friends, followers and subscribers have begun to build a city from which we will base adventures and builds I will be recording for my YouTube channel. So far progress has been good but slow due to the fact that I must always be present for people to access the world. This will be changing soon as I plan to create a schedule which people can stick to loosely. This will mean that there will be regular updates to this series, along with opportunities for you to join our community and feature in some of these videos.

Next up on the agenda for Tramp City is the completion of the ground floor of all houses and the full excavation of Level 1 of the mine, following which we will start on our first big build. The first of many!

If you would like to be part of any of this then leave a comment, contact me on twitter or introduce yourself over Xbox Live and you will be more than welcome!

Let's Talk - A Summer of Movies Part 2 (Stand Alone Titles)

In part two of this three part post, I am going to be talking about some great looking movies with only the trailers to go by. So let's see how that goes.

First up we have the super star packed This Is The End. In this movie a series of disasters threatens the lives of everyone in Hollywood and a group of A-Listers band together to survive. This movie looks set to blow cinema goers away when it's released next week. Starring great comedy actors such as James Franco, Danny McBride, Jason Segel, Paul Rudd and many more, with cameos from the incredible Emma Watson, the shameless Rihanna and even The Backstreet Boys (not a typo!), this movie could easily be the movie of the year, or at least the Summer. Jokingly teased as Pineapple Express 2, if this movie is even half as funny as Pineapple Express, you are most certainly in for a treat!

Next we have sci-fi/thriller The Purge. In this movie the world has been made perfect with the only cost being that one day every year all crime is legal. Now this trailer was intense. Real intense! I was on the edge of my seat for most of it and by the end of it I was straight on to Google trying to find out more. With Ethan Hawke as the lead going up against the sinister Rhys Wakefield in this tale of an odd utopian society with a dark side, I think we could be looking at a very special movie. Having said that, this movie will have plenty of chances to mess up and I have been disappointed by this genre on numerous occasions so personally, I will be playing this one by ear. Set for release later this week, I wish it all the best! Trailer

Next we have a movie I really cannot wait for, R.I.P.D., based on the comic book Rest In Peace Department. The story of a department of deceased law enforcers who protect the living from the dead, this looks set to be the action flick of the summer (if only it could get a bit more publicity). Starring two amazing actors, Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds (King of heroes and anti heroes alike), I know without seeing this movie I'm going to love every minute of it. Due for release on the 19th of next month, I find myself wondering, "How far in advance can you book a ticket for the cinema?" Trailer

YouTubing!

So I recently started up my YouTube channel with mostly positive responses, which is awesome. I have been wanting to start making videos since I first started watching them in about 2009 but lack of sufficient funds and an overload of school work seemed to push it to the back burner, where it was lost, but never forgotten.

This year I suddenly thought, "Why not just do it?" and so I did! I went out, bought a capture card and now I'm recording videos on a regular basis. However I am still yet to create a schedule or learn how to edit, but I'll get there in time.

At this current time, I have two Minecraft series on the go; My solo series in which I am playing a survival game on the highest difficulty, and my multiplayer series, on which I have created a "server" called Tramp City, allowing people to show their creative side and build with my friends and me. The former has tailed off slightly whilst I focus on the latter but as I sort out a schedule each will be given the time they deserve.

As far as FIFA 13 goes, I don't really have any series planned out. I will however be trying to make squad builder videos whenever I feel I have something interesting to talk about or I have made a squad I haven't seen anywhere else. This will most definitely change when FIFA 14 is released and I will try to come up with something interesting and innovative to do.

In the nearer future, I will be doing some videos with friends, including versus mode on FIFA, campaign mode on Halo 4 with some friends, Battlefield 3, Call of Duty, Medal of Honour and anything else I can get my hands on. There's so much to do that the hardest part is figuring out where to start. When I know, I'll make sure that you do too!

                                   

The first of many!