Sep 1, 2026 · 21 min · 10 segments
The sports card market is up big. Disney is up 5x in six months. Pokemon volume is at all time highs. So the question everyone is asking: how much longer? Let's talk dry powder. The rotation from…
I've been a little bit concerned because I have seen that the monthly volume has spiked to a pretty crazy extent recently.
If you pull up dashboard on CardLadder, you'll see what the monthly volume looks like for all sealed wax sales as well as singles.
Putting it to all time shows you how much over the past year we've had volume truly spike.
And volume is a leading indicator, as I've said in other podcasts.
So if we have massive volume going on in sales, it's usually indicative of some good market conditions in coming months.
But at some point, that sales volume always peaks.
It has to, right? What goes up must come down, and at some point that sales volume comes down, and then average prices themselves start falling as well.
A lot of people are going to try and tell you when the end is near, but instead of trying to stroke my ego by calling a top, I'm just going to talk about things that we can learn from other market corrections and pull them into the hobby so that you're not caught with your pants down when the tide goes out.
I've been a little bit concerned because I have seen that the monthly volume has spiked to a pretty crazy extent recently.
If you pull up dashboard on CardLadder, you'll see what the monthly volume looks like for all sealed wax sales as well as singles.
Putting it to all time shows you how much over the past year we've had volume truly spike.
And volume is a leading indicator, as I've said in other podcasts.
So if we have massive volume going on in sales, it's usually indicative of some good market conditions in coming months.
But at some point, that sales volume always peaks.
It has to, right? What goes up must come down, and at some point that sales volume comes down, and then average prices themselves start falling as well.
A lot of people are going to try and tell you when the end is near, but instead of trying to stroke my ego by calling a top, I'm just going to talk about things that we can learn from other market corrections and pull them into the hobby so that you're not caught with your pants down when the tide goes out.
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