Index 100 Explanation

What is the Index 100?

The above is the Index 100 on Futbin, another useful tool Futbin offers. You can find this under “Market” -> “Index100”. You can switch between Ps, Xbox, and Pc through the console images and you can switch “Live Graph” which shows the past 24h in more detail, “Daily Graph” which shows the daily average of the whole FUT year, and “Hourly Graph” which shows today's graph for each hour.

This Index 100 is known as a tool that helps to understand the current supply and demand balance on the market.

The Index 100 tracks 100 cards between all ratings and versions and aims to give us an idea of the current market. Higher prices = higher graph, lower prices = lower graph 

Sadly, some key issues make this whole Index misleading and almost useless for us.

Misconceptions of the Index100

https://www.futbin.com/player100/PS4/100 

This link shows you the 100 cards included in the Index 100 and this is where the mistakes start.

- It only tracks 100 cards and that can’t give very accurate numbers for the overall market.

- It doesn’t cover some of the important card types in the game.

- It puts multiple market movements into the same calculation. 

As an example, I remember an SBC from Fifa 19 with specifically only UCL cards needed, the Index100 won't record that on the graphs at all as they don’t have a single UCL Card on the list. It was the same for many cases like Icon Upgrades when almost every fodder card rose dramatically and a few meta cards dipped. The Index100 would show a price increase because there are more fodder cards included than Meta Cards. 

The issues with this go even that far that we have outdated cards in the Index 100, cards that were in the game during the first week of FUT but then moved clubs throughout the year. These cards are still included and show us a wrong image of the market.

How to use it properly?

It's still a great tool to workaround but it's important to know the right use! 

As said, the Index100 has some issues and that’s why I don’t recommend it for general use. 

The Index Special gets a yellow tick because it usually just covers the IF cards and not any other special cards. It can be helpful if you are looking specifically for these card types. Same as the Index UCL.

Index Gold and Index Silver have the same issue as the Index100, I didn’t even use them that much throughout the year because you can just check the ones you need manually. Silvers don’t even get that many price updates so you won’t see a big insight from the Index graph 

Index Icons is super useful for Icon Trading and I recommend checking it a few times a day.

The Gold Index from 81-86 is also useful. It filters just for that rating and these are the key ratings for the early SBCs until TOTS. 

Index UCL Live and Index OTW are also green ticked because you can look back and see around what times the hype for the UCL/League game rise starts etc. It's still recommended to check each card separately but these aren’t that bad as the yellow ticked ones. 

In general, the idea of an Index is very good and can be super helpful, but the way Futbin does it is not perfect. I recommend using it for specific card groups only and just to get a quick overview.

Top Up/Top Down and Market Momentum

The Top Up and Top Down show you the current price updates with the biggest Ups and Downs across the market. The above is from the Index100, but you can change it to any Index you like. 

The Market Momentum shows the overall change the same way as the Top Ups and Downs. 50% means it holds the current value, below means the market value goes lower, and higher means the market value goes higher. 

The above are all based on Futbin data and carry the mistakes from earlier, that’s why I don’t recommend using them for every trading move, but rather to get an idea of where the market is at the moment. 

Summary

- The Index100 is a tool to get a quick idea of the current Supply/Demand Balance.

- It's sadly not accurate.

- The other Index options are more accurate and recommended.