Bots
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I don't think it's a person entering and canceling orders. If you play around with it you will clearly see a pattern to the buying and selling. I have pushed up a price by over 1000 to see how far it will go and it is very consistent in the timing and process. After pushing up the price I cancel my order and the bot price sits there until a buy happens. Individuals don't leave a price above the market like this. They will cancel and lower.
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The end game for the bot is either making stubs or manipulating the market. The bot doesn't care how much it makes. It just keeps doing it.
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@Parr99_XBL
People who put buy orders in usually just outbid by one and wait until their order goes through. They dont check all the orders below them -
Wow the tin foil hat must be a fashion statement in 2025
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Here's an example of how I have tested it. Sale price 9000 and buy price 6000. I put in an order for 6005. Bot does 6006 and cancels 6000 about a second or two apart. I go to 6500 and then bot does 6501. I do 7000 and bot does 7001. Each time the bot cancels it's previous order. Now the top three prices are 7001 bot, 7000 me 6000 next best bid. I cancel my 7000 and the bot stays at 7001 until a buy happens even though it is now 1000 above the next best bid. It doesn't expect this to happen so it isn't programmed to correct the large over bid. Individuals don't leave the high bid all alone. Individuals will cancel and lower when they see that they are way above the market.
The bot doesn't. Once the buy happens it switches and sells. As long as it is the best price the program works. I've been playing the market for 10 years and have never seen anything like this before. -
I have played out this exact scenario about 50 times or more test it out and it worked exactly the same everytime.
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I don’t know about you, but the market acting this way doesn’t make me want/need to buy stubs. In fact, it does the opposite.
And then my thinking drifts to: you know, if this is how it’s gonna be from now on, maybe The Show isn’t for me. (Shrugs)…..
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@Parr99_XBL said in Bots:
Here's an example of how I have tested it. Sale price 9000 and buy price 6000. I put in an order for 6005. Bot does 6006 and cancels 6000 about a second or two apart. I go to 6500 and then bot does 6501. I do 7000 and bot does 7001. Each time the bot cancels it's previous order. Now the top three prices are 7001 bot, 7000 me 6000 next best bid. I cancel my 7000 and the bot stays at 7001 until a buy happens even though it is now 1000 above the next best bid. It doesn't expect this to happen so it isn't programmed to correct the large over bid. Individuals don't leave the high bid all alone. Individuals will cancel and lower when they see that they are way above the market.
The bot doesn't. Once the buy happens it switches and sells. As long as it is the best price the program works. I've been playing the market for 10 years and have never seen anything like this before.Exactly, I was just about to give a explanation of how it went for me last night and why I got so frustrated but you explained it perfectly.
This was happening to me on the Cal Raleigh spotlight card because I am just trying to finish the spotlight collection for Santana.
I use to love flipping cards, I would do it while watching a movie or a show and just leave said buy/sell order alone and come back, with the bot that at least for me hasn't been as easy this year.
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The Cal Raleigh card is a perfect example of when it happens. It has enough spread, trades not too often and isn't too large a price.
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What really sucks is when the bot buys and then sells and then bids again before you can buy your card. I've seen this happen. I feel like I have to wait for the bot to get his purchase done and hope I can buy mine before he switches back to the buy side again.
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Idk if bots are a thing on SDS servers but it definitely is on EA ones. FUT in particular is terrible but thats because a quick search for a free app for it directs you straight to it, don't see that with The Show.
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I got hacked by someone and am banned for marketplace manipulation can I please get unbanned
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@capardo_XBL said in Bots:
I don’t know about you, but the market acting this way doesn’t make me want/need to buy stubs. In fact, it does the opposite.
And then my thinking drifts to: you know, if this is how it’s gonna be from now on, maybe The Show isn’t for me. (Shrugs)…..
I'm definitely considering not buying next year's game, I have better things that I can spend my $ and time on.
