Snipe / Sleep

Some cards move. Most just sit.

Before you spend, see how often a card actually trades. Real Near Mint sold counts, every finish priced separately, never blended.

The TradingView for collectibles.

Free to use, no card needed. 15,500+ cards scored. Raw, ungraded Near Mint.

15,500+

Cards scored

Every finish

Priced separately

Raw Near Mint

Only

Through the day

Prices refreshed

The problem

A price tells you what a card is worth.
It doesn't tell you if anyone is buying.

Two cards can carry the same price and be nothing alike. One trades most days. The other last sold three weeks ago, to one person, at a number nobody has matched since. The sticker looks identical. The position is not.

Very active

Trading most days. Real, repeatable prices.

Thin market

Few price levels, wide spread. Treat the number with care.

No recent sales

Nothing has traded lately. We show you that, not a guess.

Representative. The full read runs from Very Active to No Recent Sales.

The calls

Three calls, and the read behind each.

Snipe, Watch, or Sleep at a glance. Under each one sits the specific read and the reason for it, in plain language. When a card is not doing anything, it reads Watch rather than a forced call.

Snipe

Worth a look at today's price.

Watch

Not yet. Something has to confirm first.

Sleep

Not at this price. Here is why.

Behind each call is the actual read: a healthy breakout, a market running hot, a confirmed downtrend. Cards sitting in their range, or going nowhere, get told that plainly instead of dressed up as a signal.

Sleep is the one nobody else will give you. A marketplace earns a fee when you buy. We do not.

How we price

Narrower, but true.

The convenient way to price a card is one blended number that mixes conditions, grades and print runs, then smooths it with an average. It looks tidy. It is not the price of the card in front of you. We made the opposite trade on purpose.

The usual blended price

  • Near Mint, Lightly Played and Damaged, averaged together.
  • 1st Edition, Shadowless and Unlimited, treated as one card.
  • Graded comps folded in.
  • A stale number, shown as current.

The Snipe or Sleep price

  • Raw Near Mint only.
  • Each finish priced separately, with its own chart and call.
  • Graded kept out. Different market.
  • No recent Near Mint sale means we show nothing. Not a guess.
01

Near Mint only

Most market prices quietly average across conditions, or fall back to a played-grade sale when Near Mint is thin. We only ever show raw Near Mint.

02

Every finish separate

1st Edition, Shadowless, Unlimited, Reverse Holo, Holo, Normal. These trade at completely different prices. We model each as its own printing.

03

A clean daily price

When several sales land in a day, an average gets dragged by outliers. We take the clean daily floor for that specific finish instead.

04

One price, everywhere

The number in the card header is the last point on the chart, is the screener tile, is the movers list. Always. Three different prices for one card is a bug, not a feature.

05

Glitches rejected

Feeds emit garbage. A one dollar quote on a five hundred dollar card. A spike that reverts the next day. We reject those before they touch the price.

06

Graded kept separate

A PSA 10 is a different market from a raw copy. We never blend graded comps into the raw price.

07

Honest about freshness

When a card has no recent Near Mint data, we say so. We do not dress a stale number as a current one.

Accuracy over coverage. No data beats wrong data.

What we offer

The edge is knowing what the data means.

Price integrity

Raw Near Mint, every finish separate, one number on every surface.

The right model per card

Blue-chips, mid-tier and cheap cards move differently. Each is scored through the lens that fits its value band: mean-reversion, momentum or breakout, not one score for everything.

Trading activity

How often a card actually trades, and whether it is trading at all.

Demand screener

Filter 15,500+ scored cards by the question you are actually asking.

Movers

What changed today, and what is behind it.

Why now

A plain-language read on what is driving the call.

The product

Every price is raw Near Mint. Every card shows if it's moving.

screener · price + activity live
Umbreon ex

Umbreon ex

Prismatic Evolutions · #161

$1,452
Price Below Average
Active39 NM / 30dSold 6d ago
Rosa's Encouragement - 115/080

Rosa's Encouragement - 115/080

M3: Nihil Zero · #115/080

$78
Sharp Drop
Steady23 NM / 30dSold 3d ago
Leavanny

Leavanny

White Flare · #89

$40
Coiled
Active61 NM / 30dSold 5d ago
Mega Gengar ex

Mega Gengar ex

Ascended Heroes · #284

$1,051
Sleep
Active55 NM / 30dSold 3d ago
Morpeko

Morpeko

Paradox Rift · #206

$58
Momentum Building
Active97 NM / 30dSold 5d ago
Litten

Litten

Temporal Forces · #167

$40
Coiled
Active86 NM / 30dSold 4d ago

Every price here is raw, ungraded Near Mint. Where a card has no recent Near Mint sale, we show that instead of a number.

Pricing

Founding members keep their rate.

Snipe or Sleep is open. Reading any card is free and stays free. A subscription pays for finding the cards worth reading about, and the founding rate stays locked for as long as the subscription runs.

There will be a free tier. There always will be.

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  • Every card page in full, including the misses.
  • The whole board, and search by name.
  • 90 days of price history.
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  • Filter the board by call.
  • Movers, on completed Near Mint sales.
  • Max Buy on every card.
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FAQ

Questions, answered.

Is this financial advice?

No. Snipe or Sleep is informational market data. Collectibles carry real risk, prices move against you, and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell. You make the call.

Where do the prices come from?

Completed sales of raw, ungraded Near Mint copies. We strip out lots, bundles, custom cards and obvious mispricings before anything reaches the price, and we keep graded sales out entirely.

Why do you sometimes show no price at all?

Because a wrong number is worse than no number. If a card has no recent Near Mint sale, anything we printed would be a guess dressed up as data.

What counts as a different finish?

1st Edition, Shadowless, Unlimited, Reverse Holo, Holo and Normal are priced as separate printings, each with its own chart and its own call. They trade at very different prices, so blending them produces a number that describes no card that exists.

Do you cover graded cards?

Graded is tracked separately and never mixed into the raw price. A PSA 10 is a different market with different buyers.

What do I get for free?

Every card page in full: the call, the price, how often it trades, and our last calls on it including the misses. Plus the whole board and search. A subscription adds the surfaces that find the cards for you, like filtering the board by call and Movers.

Know before you spend.

Two minutes on a card page is cheaper than a shelf you cannot clear.