Most effective way to “invest”
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With flipping practically dead this year, I’ve seen numerous people recommend investing…which I assume is buying bulk of a specific player in hopes they go diamond/gold. Is there a strategy to be successful at this or is it as straight forward as it sounds?
My quest to finish the live series continues, i hope they shower us with stub opportunities in season 3
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Flipping is not dead. Been flipping all year first with Diamond Equipment regularly with 3-5K spreads (post tax) and now with player cards where spreads are in the 4-6K range. I don’t even flip for that long and easily make 50K a day at least. I get people don’t want to do it because it’s tedious but I have all the stubs I need….
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I’m more than familiar enough with flipping to know 50k a day takes a solid few hours. Way too much time
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Takes a few hours to clear but not an active few hours. I am up early so typically do most of my buys before 6-7am EST and then just leave sell orders out there to eventually clear.
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@jonblaze2424_PSN said in Most effective way to “invest”:
I’m more than familiar enough with flipping to know 50k a day takes a solid few hours. Way too much time
So flipping takes too long for you to get a return...but you want to try investing.
lol okay...
Also, I finished the Live Series collection by Easter weekend. I have all set and core collections finished. It's not that slow or difficult.
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Dear SDS,
How can I get rich quick? Preferably without time, effort or skill.
Thanks in advance!
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@SaveFarris_PSN said in Most effective way to “invest”:
Dear SDS,
How can I get rich quick? Preferably without time, effort or skill.
Thanks in advance!
Dear valued gamer , we would like to encourage you NOT to spread our business model around so haphazardly. Thanks. -SDS
PS teehee jk
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@Pennstatefencer_MLBTS said in Most effective way to “invest”:
@jonblaze2424_PSN said in Most effective way to “invest”:
I’m more than familiar enough with flipping to know 50k a day takes a solid few hours. Way too much time
So flipping takes too long for you to get a return...but you want to try investing.
lol okay...
Also, I finished the Live Series collection by Easter weekend. I have all set and core collections finished. It's not that slow or difficult.
I don’t know the method of investing, hence why i created the post. Some of you are seriously special.
You had the live collection done in 2-3 weeks, so you essentially spent 30-40 hours a week on the game. Got it. Some of us are a little more casual, and don’t have hours upon hours a day to flip in addition to the program grinds and getting your occasional ranked games in.
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@SaveFarris_PSN said in Most effective way to “invest”:
Dear SDS,
How can I get rich quick? Preferably without time, effort or skill.
Thanks in advance!
Nah, but you’re insecure wisecracks are still always entertaining
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@jonblaze2424_PSN said in Most effective way to “invest”:
@Pennstatefencer_MLBTS said in Most effective way to “invest”:
@jonblaze2424_PSN said in Most effective way to “invest”:
I’m more than familiar enough with flipping to know 50k a day takes a solid few hours. Way too much time
So flipping takes too long for you to get a return...but you want to try investing.
lol okay...
Also, I finished the Live Series collection by Easter weekend. I have all set and core collections finished. It's not that slow or difficult.
I don’t know the method of investing, hence why i created the post. Some of you are seriously special.
You had the live collection done in 2-3 weeks, so you essentially spent 30-40 hours a week on the game. Got it. Some of us are a little more casual, and don’t have hours upon hours a day to flip in addition to the program grinds and getting your occasional ranked games in.
No. I actually barely played those first few weeks since my son was born around then. That's my point. You don't need to commit a ton of time if you know what you're doing. Jeter was waiting for me by the time we got home from the hospital.
If you would prefer to invest tens of thousands of stubs into Live Series players in the hopes that they get an upgrade weeks from now...go for it. People do make a lot of stubs investing in potential player upgrades, but it is the exact opposite of fast, and it requires a bit of luck.
Meanwhile, I made 100k today and haven't even turned on my console.
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@rosborn27_PSN said in Most effective way to “invest”:
Takes a few hours to clear but not an active few hours. I am up early so typically do most of my buys before 6-7am EST and then just leave sell orders out there to eventually clear.
^^ this
Make your orders in the morning/evening and come back later in the day. The key has always been patience when flipping. If you can do that then you can make a huge profit.
I have over 315 cards in from series 2 and over 285 from series 1 and all the stubs I need.
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@Pennstatefencer_MLBTS said in Most effective way to “invest”:
@jonblaze2424_PSN said in Most effective way to “invest”:
@Pennstatefencer_MLBTS said in Most effective way to “invest”:
@jonblaze2424_PSN said in Most effective way to “invest”:
I’m more than familiar enough with flipping to know 50k a day takes a solid few hours. Way too much time
So flipping takes too long for you to get a return...but you want to try investing.
lol okay...
Also, I finished the Live Series collection by Easter weekend. I have all set and core collections finished. It's not that slow or difficult.
I don’t know the method of investing, hence why i created the post. Some of you are seriously special.
You had the live collection done in 2-3 weeks, so you essentially spent 30-40 hours a week on the game. Got it. Some of us are a little more casual, and don’t have hours upon hours a day to flip in addition to the program grinds and getting your occasional ranked games in.
No. I actually barely played those first few weeks since my son was born around then. That's my point. You don't need to commit a ton of time if you know what you're doing. Jeter was waiting for me by the time we got home from the hospital.
If you would prefer to invest tens of thousands of stubs into Live Series players in the hopes that they get an upgrade weeks from now...go for it. People do make a lot of stubs investing in potential player upgrades, but it is the exact opposite of fast, and it requires a bit of luck.
Meanwhile, I made 100k today and haven't even turned on my console.
Im at 90k today but thats only because i took a gamble with the 40k diamond duos (i got it right and got Schwarber) point beign stubs can be had by flipping if you know what your doing
Btw congratulations to you and your family.
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@rosborn27_PSN said in Most effective way to “invest”:
Takes a few hours to clear but not an active few hours. I am up early so typically do most of my buys before 6-7am EST and then just leave sell orders out there to eventually clear.
Exactly. An hour max in total market time spread across the day can net you an easy 70K-100K. It's brainless.
I even sent the OP a DM last week telling him what to flip.
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@jonblaze2424_PSN said in Most effective way to “invest”:
@SaveFarris_PSN said in Most effective way to “invest”:
Dear SDS,
How can I get rich quick? Preferably without time, effort or skill.
Thanks in advance!
Nah, but you’re insecure wisecracks are still always entertaining
Insecure wisecracking? This guy has some of the best most accurate information on this forum, you're not even close to being as helpful or knowledgeable as him.
With that said, man up and figure out your own way to make stubs instead of begging everyone else.
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@tybud_PSN said in Most effective way to “invest”:
@jonblaze2424_PSN said in Most effective way to “invest”:
@SaveFarris_PSN said in Most effective way to “invest”:
Dear SDS,
How can I get rich quick? Preferably without time, effort or skill.
Thanks in advance!
Nah, but you’re insecure wisecracks are still always entertaining
Insecure wisecracking? This guy has some of the best most accurate information on this forum, you're not even close to being as helpful or knowledgeable as him.
With that said, man up and figure out your own way to make stubs instead of begging everyone else.
Whole point of this forum is for people in the community to discuss the game and help others, simply asking for guidance or tips isnt begging. Dramatic much??
I know SaveFarris and what he does, I respect what he does, I’ve been around for many many years. But if you can dish it out then you can expect to get it back. No need to get butthurt on his behalf
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@aaronjw76_PSN said in Most effective way to “invest”:
@rosborn27_PSN said in Most effective way to “invest”:
Takes a few hours to clear but not an active few hours. I am up early so typically do most of my buys before 6-7am EST and then just leave sell orders out there to eventually clear.
Exactly. An hour max in total market time spread across the day can net you an easy 70K-100K. It's brainless.
I even sent the OP a DM last week telling him what to flip.
And I appreciated you reaching out. I had i think 2-3 orders go through over the span of 2 days…so thought maybe i wasn’t doing something right.
But as the previous dude said, might just be time to “man up” and figure out my own way. Gotta track down mom and dads credit card
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IMO, SDS increased the opportunity cost of investing this year by slowing the upgrade/downgrade cycle. In past years, you could buy and hold a player in the hopes that they get an upgrade (to do that I download the past X weeks worth of player data - since the last upgrade - from Fangraphs and compare it to the current player ratings and see if anything is out of line). In past years, that would happen every two weeks. Now, we haven't had an update in a month. Fewer opportunities all around. Still worth doing, I think, but definitely not as good as years past. Stop me if you've heard that one before...
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The most effective “investing” imo is when the market crashes either because of a Flash Sale or content drop. For those that flip on the market it’s easy to notice when this happens. When it does, there is a time-limited opportunity to put all of your stubs into artificially depreciated cards and then sell them a few days later for 25-100% returns. Doing that coupled with flipping is why some people have a lot of stubs even in a “handout-less” version of the game.
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I would imagine the best way to invest would be at the beginning of the season. Having a hunch about a player you feel is underrated and you bet they will get multiple upgrades over the year. I don't pay attention to other teams stats so I would have invested in Outman early on. I didn't though. I flipped silver equipment at small profit early on and was able to complete LS by Easter. Once I got my balance over 2.5 million I put in bids on ever diamond equipment over 10k and just constantly flip when I feel like. It is important to know pay attention to sales on packs and stubs and know when a card is undervalued. Some of the higher diamond equipment will drop to 25k or below during valleys and return to mid 40ks in a few weeks.
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@theBlindRhino said in Most effective way to “invest”:
I would imagine the best way to invest would be at the beginning of the season. Having a hunch about a player you feel is underrated and you bet they will get multiple upgrades over the year.
This too. I play in a lot of Dynasty Baseball leagues and so know the minor league player pool very well. At beginning of the year I bought over 200 Hunter Browns and then about 60 Corbin Carrolls. Corbin “should” payoff today to Diamond I would think and Brown can make Gold in time but probably never Diamond. But I bought those guys in April and it’s almost June. So while that is “investing” to the points made above by others there are faster/better ways.
