Alongside price, every card carries a handful of reads that summarize how it's trading and how it grades. They're built from real sales, market aggregates, and grading population data, then distilled into a few easy-to-scan numbers. This page explains what each one means and how to read it. For how we set price itself, see how our pricing works.
The index scores below run on a 0–100 scale. They're descriptive reads of what the market is doing, not forecasts of where a price is headed.
A read of price momentum. A high score means the card is heating up; a low score means it's cooling off. Heat is about direction— whether the price is moving, not whether today's price is cheap or rich.
Where the current price sits relative to its own recent trend. A low Tide suggests the card is trading at a discount to its trend; a high Tide suggests it's stretched above it.
Whether a card looks like it's being quietly accumulated or distributed, read from how trading volume lines up with price. Higher leans accumulation, lower leans distribution.
Where today's price falls between its lowest and highest point over the past year — near the low, the middle, or the high of its band.
How much the price swings around. Higher volatility means a choppier, less predictable price and wider day-to-day moves.
How readily a card actually trades. A liquid card changes hands often and recently, so it's easier to buy or sell near market; a thin one trades rarely, so any single price is a looser guide.
The number of real sales we've seen over recent windows, plus a rough sales-per-week pace. These tell you how much trading actually backs the other reads.
How often copies of a card come back a gem 10 when graded. A higher gem rate means a cleaner, easier-to-grade card. We only show it when enough copies have been graded to be meaningful.
How much more a top-graded copy sells for than a raw one — a quick sense of the upside grading can unlock for a given card.
An estimate of the return on buying a raw copy and grading it, taking into account how often the card gems and the cost of grading. It's an average expectation across many submissions, not a guarantee on any single card.
How much attention a card is getting on LUUT, from how often collectors view and track it. Demand reads are most useful read alongside price and liquidity, not on their own.
No single number tells the whole story. The reads are most useful in combination — for example, a card that's heating up and liquid is a very different setup from one that's heating up on almost no sales. Treat them as a well-grounded starting point for your own judgment, not as financial advice.
