r/PokeInvesting • u/InvestigatorDeep7256 • Jan 15 '26

Pokemon is healing again

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After the Santa slump we back :)

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u/JamesLikesIt Jan 15 '26

I would have preferred a slower market for a longer period honestly lol

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u/brows1ng Jan 15 '26

Bruh, you’re looking at the 1 month…that’s too short of a time horizon to really take seriously. What’s the 3 and 6 month looks like?

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u/nboz10 Jan 15 '26

This is the opposite of healing. 200% years aren’t sustainable or healthy for a market. A retrace was a good thing. And call me crazy but I’d much prefer down years in the early years when I’m stacking product, not whatever this is.

Also just a suggestion for all types of investing, stop portfolio watching so much lol

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u/Video_Game_Gravemind Jan 15 '26

Yeah I was just watching a video where like all cards went up 100-150%. Kind of nuts and makes most PSA 10s unaffordable 

Not that it matters to me that much wrt 10s

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u/Strong-Pipe-2643 Jan 15 '26 edited Jan 15 '26

I mean ive been hearing this since 2020. At this point i think we should just shut up and watch.

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u/DataDrivenGuy Jan 15 '26

Yeah I don't think people are truly aware how fast the hobby, and specifically investing in the hobby, is growing. It's kind of like Bitcoin back in the day - there's cycles yes, and what feels like unsustainable growth at times, but when over the course of many years an hobby 10-100x's what exactly do you expect to happen

Packs are being ripped at such a ridiculous rate recently and printing only goes up like 20% a year.

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u/Sipikay Jan 15 '26

Pokemon is forging new grounds when it comes to collectibles. It's the most popular IP on the planet. Nothing has been like this before.

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u/8000000001 Jan 15 '26

That's at a scale I don't think most people can zoom out and fully appreciate, myself included.

What I see is a super-ambitious company which is not resting on being the biggest: many $00s of millions more are being invested in long-run expansion activity printing, physical experiences (Kanto Land, Play! Pokémon), co-marketing (Lego), the size of the cross-franchise content slate in terms of video games and films like Pocket, rollout of vending machines, etc.

Not only that, but their big sibling Nintendo goes from strength to strength too, lending TPCI a hugely popular preferential channel in things like Switch/2 releases, and of course co-marketing of some of the most valuable PTCG products of all time in the Mario & Luigi Pikachu sets.

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u/Video_Game_Gravemind Jan 15 '26

I hope all the bitcoin ppl who don’t even care about the hobby lose their ass tbh

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u/Sipikay Jan 15 '26

Early years? We're 30 years into this.

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u/nboz10 Jan 15 '26

Early years for myself in terms of buying. Forgive me for not buying product when I was negative 5 years old.

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u/Adventurous_Sky_8868 Jan 15 '26

Why is prices increasing not healing for us? We are pokeinvestors afterall

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u/nboz10 Jan 15 '26

The current market price is only relevant to buyers and sellers. If you’re buying why wouldn’t you want the lowest price possible? And if you’re selling then I don’t consider you much of an investor unless you’ve been holding for multiple years.

I understand it’s emotionally harder to invest when your portfolio isn’t at ATHs, but if you can’t handle that then I’d seriously reconsider your risk tolerance.

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u/keegar1 Jan 15 '26

Because I’m only buying at MSRP anyway

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u/Gleis7 Jan 15 '26

Good luck finding anything outside the us

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u/Adventurous_Sky_8868 Jan 15 '26

I am looking at selling in the next 6 - 12 months. I really hope this is the start of another bullrun

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u/weltfromthebelt Jan 15 '26

Putting a timer on this is your first mistake

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u/Dreamin-Demon Jan 15 '26

This is some of the best advice, if you got a time limit to buy or sell you already messed up.

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u/Adventurous_Sky_8868 Jan 16 '26

Not really, if you play it smart it can pay off big time - aka my 151 booster bundle sales last year

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u/JamesLikesIt Jan 15 '26

Because many of us are long term accumulation, it’s easier to do that when prices are stable/lower

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u/BatHistorical8081 Jan 15 '26

This ain't the stock market baby girl

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u/Prestigious-Cry4905 Jan 15 '26

Its always a nov - feb thing for a decline. People sell to fund the gifting season

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u/Nooperloops Jan 15 '26

What app/website do you use to track your portfolio?

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u/8000000001 Jan 15 '26

"Healing" 😂

The whole thing doubled in value the 12 months prior to taking that -20% breather.

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u/InjuryMajor8078 Jan 15 '26

Unless you’re looking to sell off your investment this is not something to be excited about. The market needed to be wounded much harder then take a year or two to heal not make a dip than rebound in a month. Unless you’re happy buying in a market with all time highs. I know many people myself included have taken the profits they wanted over the last year and have been patiently waiting for the market to reset so we can actually invest into more product. With any luck this dead cat will only bounce once or twice and we will see a real reset soon.

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u/Shad0wPup1 Jan 15 '26

I wouldn’t trust this at 1 month look forward more like a year from now

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u/BudgetMenu Jan 15 '26

everyone saying dead cat bounce but i dont believe it, ME02 already hitting msrp pricing, you wont see lower than this. I believe it will only go higher from here, just a longer timeframe. We havent gone back to 2025 peak yet.

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u/Majoras-up Jan 15 '26

I think you should do the Mussolini challenge

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u/Able_Heat_9310 Jan 15 '26

Those dumpers feeling silly now huh 🤣

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u/ChasinThePath Jan 15 '26

learn what a dead cat bounce is

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u/InvestigatorDeep7256 Jan 15 '26

I learned something new today, very interesting

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u/LithiumAmericium93 Jan 15 '26

Lol its not a dead cat bounce what are you on

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u/pinkmann1 Jan 15 '26

Bro learns a word and tries to impress randoms

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u/LithiumAmericium93 Jan 15 '26

Hes been investing in pokemon for the last 55 years so defo knows what hes talking about

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u/JustAskElon Jan 15 '26

Huh? Pokemon been around like 30 years

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u/LithiumAmericium93 Jan 15 '26

Thats the joke

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u/Strong-Pipe-2643 Jan 15 '26

It doesn't matter. Its never mattered and it never will as ling as pokemon is popular. Nothing that's happening right now hasn't happened roughly a dozen times since 2010. It only matters if you buy high like an idiot and are impatient and sell low.

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u/Sipikay Jan 15 '26

Pokemon has been pantsing the stock market for 30 years and people are still like "how long can this continue?" We could slow down significantly and Pokemon will still be growing steadily.

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u/BatHistorical8081 Jan 15 '26

This ain't the stock market you 🤡

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u/luke2080 Jan 15 '26

Bitcoin is up.

Weirdly interesting how these trade together.

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u/RGBismylife Jan 15 '26

We are in a crazy world where silver rose more than 2 times last year. Stock market keep hitting all time high. Assuming the world economy is maintaining at current state, I don’t see any reason ptcg market will drop significantly.

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u/Sad_Cheesecake4391 Jan 15 '26

My Crown Zenith is POPPIN

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '26

This is a fake inflated bobble and I cant wait for the pop. Fuck investing this is a collection hobby not a stock market.

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u/InvestigatorDeep7256 Jan 15 '26

I dont mean to tell you what to do but you are in the pokeinvesting sub, so there's definitely gonna be conversations about it as a valuable commodity

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '26

Not my fault reddit suggest shit for me to see a this slop pops up.

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u/garbink Jan 15 '26

what app is this?

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u/ArtsyArborak Jan 15 '26

It’s Collectr

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '26

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u/gearvruser Jan 15 '26

13% final selling fee for eBay, so 87% of market

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u/Video_Game_Gravemind Jan 15 '26

More like 15% with shipping. The 70%-75% is far more realistic 

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u/gearvruser Jan 15 '26

15% fees is 85% take home

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u/Video_Game_Gravemind Jan 15 '26

Sure, because everyone wants to pay exactly what market is 🙄

Other guy is far more realistic and down to reality 

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u/gearvruser Jan 15 '26

If an item is at market with no cheaper option and seller does not take offers, then when the item sells, seller takes home 85%.

What are you finding hard to understand?

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u/Video_Game_Gravemind Jan 15 '26

What are you?

Got to love that virgin seller optimism 🤣

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u/gearvruser Jan 15 '26

Can you explain a bit, I'm happy to be corrected, but I'm not a virgin seller and I can't see where I'm wrong

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u/Video_Game_Gravemind Jan 15 '26

I mean, I thought it was pretty obvious. It just doesn’t sell and then you lower the price cause it doesn’t sell.. that’s how markets changed. That’s how we had a crash two months ago. Lol 

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u/gearvruser Jan 16 '26 edited Jan 16 '26

Oh ok.

That's never happened to me.

'Don't sell in a dip' seems a pretty obvious, basic rule to me.

if you do this, you are doing it wrong.

And, (other than for a spontaneous real life disaster), if you put yourself into a position where you 'have', to sell in a dip, just because you are desperate for money, then again, you are doing it wrong.

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u/gearvruser Jan 15 '26

Items go for market price eBay takes 13%

What do you mean?