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. 

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