Card Grading: Weighing the Odds
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Market Intelligence for Trading Cards
Issue #19 | July 9, 2026 This newsletter issue is exclusive to Slabnomics Investor Tier subscribers. ← Back to Comped Investor Archive
Issue #25 | July 4, 2026 Comped The Numbers I love the sight of green in the morning –Baseball continues its recent climb–Basketball 18 week streak continues in a big way–Football recent trend up–Soccer calling a top–Pokemon 25 consecutive weeks of gains–One Piece rare two great weeks in a row–S&P 500 shaking off last week’s … Read more
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Issue #24 | June 27, 2026 Comped The Numbers “Network effects” –Baseball huge bounce back from flat last week–Basketball 17 week streak, offseason hasn’t muted the glow yet–Football continues to pick up steam–Soccer stars are shining brightly–Pokemon 24 consecutive weeks of gains–One Piece great week, but still inconsistent–S&P 500 giving back all last week’s gains … Read more
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Issue #23 | June 20, 2026 Comped The Numbers –Baseball flat on midseason doldrums–Basketball 16 week streak…will offseason break it?–Football really establishing positive momentum–Soccer Lionel Messi is good at futbol–Pokemon 23 consecutive weeks of gains–One Piece wishes it were Pokemon–S&P 500 back to bullish✅–Gold concerning recent weeks–Bitcoin looks like last week was a dead cat … Read more
Released: June 16, 2026 | Duration: 34:07 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode This episode deconstructs the full rainbow of Victor Wembanyama's 2023 Panini Prizm rookie card, number 136, across all 63 parallels, all four major graders, and every grade. The total invested market cap across the rainbow comes in at roughly $138 million, nearly double … Read more
Released: June 9, 2026 | Duration: 15:57 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode This episode of Slabnomics digs into the 1952 Topps Baseball set, often called the most iconic set in the hobby, and asks a brutal question. Out of 10 hand-picked Hall of Famers, how many actually beat the S&P 500 over 22 years of … Read more
Released: June 1, 2026 | Duration: 17:01 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode On June 2nd, PSA stopped taking your cheap cards. Value, Value Bulk, Value Plus, and Value Max all closed at once, with the company citing a 10 million card backlog that it wants down to 5 million in roughly four months. Most of … Read more
Released: May 26, 2026 | Duration: 28:50 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode Picture a desert island with three people and one mango tree. Three mangoes a day for three mouths. The harvest never changes much, but the population does, and so does the number of mangoes the hoarder keeps locked in his hut. That is … Read more