Special Card Flipping

What is Special Card Flipping?

Special Card Flipping is the whole concept of “Buy low, sell high” in an ideal short time. 

To be a bit more detailed, it’s the idea of flipping out of packs special cards which fluctuate throughout the day. On a normal market, the supply and demand aren’t always even and cards go up and down a lot especially as these aren’t in packs anymore and the main supply comes through the player base. We aim to find these cards and use the fluctuation to make quick coins. 

In this case “buy low, sell high” just means finding the cards at a low point and aiming to sell them at a high point. 

Many compare it with sniping, but there are key differences. The main difference compared to sniping is filtering through multiple cards and changing the card after 1-2 search attempts. On good days I used to check the market 400-600 times. In comparison, sniping means sitting on one specific card for a longer time and looking to find a low listing.

How to identify good flipping cards?

Price

I love flipping cards between 50k and 450k. Almost throughout the whole year, you can find deals around these prices, and cards seem to have enough supply to move up and down, but also enough demand to hold a consistent price. On top of that, the tax is low and the return is great! 

Rarity

There are many reasons why a card could be rare: low supply in general, released in an early stage of FIFA, was in packs for a short time, and many more reasons. The rarer the card, the greater the price fluctuations! That’s also why we stick with out-of-pack special cards as they are already rare and don’t get supplied at the current market. 

Popularity

Popular cards sell faster and you can see some solid fluctuation usually. That’s why some Traders just focus on popular cards! Less popular cards usually have higher fluctuation (super lows and super highs) but they are also tougher to buy and sell. If you are new to flipping special cards, I recommend sticking with the popular cards. 

Consistency

This is probably the most important thing here, consistency! Finding cards with consistent ups and downs based on the Futbin graphs is perfect for flipping. 

You don’t try to flip a card that had 1 big spike or 1 big low, these usually don’t repeat over the next 24h/48h and you keep wasting time. 3-6 lows and highs over the last 24h are recommended.

Examples of possible flips 

Lewandowski OTW

 Lewandowski Fluctuations

This is an example of a possible flip. Lewandowski’s OTW card has fluctuations between 45k and 55k. That is enough room for profits. 

Buying this card at 45k and selling at 55k = ~7k Profit / over 10% return.

Osimhen Award Winner

 Osimhen Fluctuation

An expensive example to showcase that it's not all about ROI but also about raw coins. 

Buying Osimhen around 300k and selling around 340k turns out to be around 23k profit. Less ROI with just above 6% but you can spend a higher budget faster across the market.

The general idea is to have your coins spread and to aim for multiple flips. There is no set rule about how many flips you need but finding a balance between 10-100 is recommended. Less than 10 cards can be dangerous in case something goes wrong, more than 100 cards are tougher to sell as our transfer list is limited to 100 cards. 

How to sell flips?

I usually list my cards straight after buying. Listing straight after buying gets you the bonus of a lazy buyer and you don’t forget to sell the card because it's stored somewhere in your club.

When I go to sleep or for the last listing, I put them on the market for 6h or 12h. That allows you to sell a card while sleeping and covers the whole night time. Sometimes cards catch a very high peak because nobody lists a card during the EU nights, that’s why I always list for overnights. Important to mention, make sure to change your listings the next morning otherwise you are listing for another 6h or 12h. We always aim to relist our cards every hour. 

Also, make sure you are convinced with your selling price! Don’t panic if someone is undercutting you, but also don’t believe in a stronger rebound after a bigger drop. Prices are changing every day and sometimes the previous high will never hit. If you are stuck on a card for too long it's fine to just sell and move to other cards. 

Keep these things in your mind while selling and it should help you get more and faster profit!

Bonus Tips

6 pm Content

We get almost daily new content at 6 pm and that can change the market. I recommend selling your cards throughout the day and don’t hold too many cards through 6 pm. There's no need to sell everything before 6 pm but if you can reduce some risk it's recommended to do so. 

Sale History

Futbin has a tool to check recent sales and that can help identify recent high and low points. Use these to your advantage and track the cards you are trading with. It also helps to find the right selling price if you see multiple sales at a specific price. You can sell at the same price or slightly lower. 

Market check

Check the card on the market every time! Futbin is never 100% accurate with the prices and it's worth checking it on the market, you could get lucky and find cards at a low point even without Futbin recording it!

WL sell-offs

The special card market usually has a smaller dip around the end of the weekend. If you are new to flipping and not sure if a card is working out or not, getting on the stuff during these days is usually better since they should rise throughout the next few days again. But be careful, holding a card for multiple days brings the risk of a drop from any new content! 

Also worth mentioning, this is based on FIFA 23 and earlier FIFA Titles. Keep an eye on the daily update in case this changes for EAFC 24. 

Overnights

If you are listing for the night, it’s very important to check the other overnight listings! If you see multiple cards below your target price then it’s likely not hitting your selling price. These other overnight listings must sell before yours is selling and that’s quite tricky during the night. On top, everyone is going to list below these other overnight listings as they aim to sell cards too. If a card has only one overnight, it’s very likely to hit a higher price, but it’s not a guarantee! Any overnight listing above your target price is not important.

Tech Avion

I don’t apply any chemistry styles on my cards, but if I get a card with hunter or shadow, I list it a bit higher. It’s not Tech Avion like we know, but it’s the same idea of people paying more for a card with the chemistry style applied!

Bidding

You can also go on open bids and try to get cards at a good price! It doesn’t hurt doing it since you are already checking the card and maybe get lucky with a cheap price.

Icons

Icons are almost the same as the normal special cards, most of the ideas and concepts apply to icons too! We will talk more about Icons soon but this is the base for Icon Flipping. Experienced Icon Traders keep an eye on some Special cards too and try to use both trading methods at the same time. 

Practice makes perfect

This trading method is not the easiest to explain and also not the easiest to master, but my best advice is to practice! You obviously can’t learn it in a single day, it takes some time and effort!

Summary

- Aim for consistent lows and highs

- Avoid holding past 6 pm

- Always check the market

- Practice as much as you can