FIFA 23 - COMPLEMENTARY/LINK TRADING

Complementary Trading / Link Trading

What is Complementary Trading?

Complementary Trading (Link Trading) is the idea to make a profit from new squad ideas. These new squad ideas can be through anything, the most common cases are SBCs or new weekly objectives.

This method is related to the Substitute Trading Method a lot, it covers the 2nd way to make a profit from people changing squads.

When does it happen?

Complementary Trading happens with almost every release but it's not always profitable.

As a general rule, there are two key facts to determine it: Meta and Links.

If the new card is very meta (powerful in terms of gameplay), you can expect people to change their squads and get new squad-building ideas. More Meta -> more people change their squad -> bigger market impact -> more potential profit.

Links are just as important! If a new card just needs 1 link to get 10 chemistry and only has 1 linkable card, the potential profit will be high! That also means, fewer link options -> changes are concentrated at specific cards -> bigger market impact -> more potential profit.

An example would be Liga Portugal cards. They usually have very limited options and that allows the links to start a strong rise if the SBC has any meta value!

Intuition

Intuition is a needed skill for this method, knowing some cards by heart and pulling the trigger fast. During peak trading times, if you are 1 minute too late it's already gone, especially with the increasing leaks we usually don’t have much time for the trades. You have to be online at 6 pm and realize the demand within under 1 minute ideally.

Also worth mentioning, you always aim to get to comparable price sizes. That means you don’t try to link a 300k with a 3k card. Nobody with such a high budget will use cheap players. That’s also based on the idea of the player exchange as they free up some additional coins for other new buys.

Special Cases

Non-Expiring SBCs / Season Rewards

Non-expiring SBCs don’t push complementary trading as much as most people expect. That’s just because people spread between different days to complete the SBC. There’s a much bigger psychological push to complete the SBC on the release day when you know it expires in 4 days than when you know that you can complete it sometime later because it's not expiring.

The same goes for Season rewards, the player base spreads between multiple days and so there isn’t a key demand time to see a rise.

Leaked Content

With leaked content, you have to be careful and compare the risk/reward and the demand. If you think the trader demand is higher than the demand through completing the SBC, then you should stay away.

You would be surprised how many bad and inexperienced traders there are who push card prices higher even before the SBC is released and then lose coins as everyone is selling again. If you bought before the hype then you can even look to sell before the release and take the coins during the hype.

In our trading channels, we aim to get you ahead of the hype and then decide shortly before the release if we want to stick to the plan or sell in the hype.

Summary

- Profit through Squad Changes

- More Meta + fewer Links = Biggest profit

- Keep track of leaks