No Rarity - Unofficial 1st Edition Japanese Released in October 20 1996 with people estimating ~53 days print run. (data courtesy of the forum users at Elitefourum) The first pokemon official set print run was released with various errors before being corrected soon after thus making it an unofficial 1st edition. The name No Rarity is due to the signature Rarity symbol missing in the bottom right. Booster pack wise (won’t discuss packs) they can only find them in the 291 yen packs vs the 300 yen packs released April 1, 1997. Even then the chances of finding a no rarity in a 291 yen pack is < 1% now a days. Initially pokemon cards sold quite slowly which is why today we ended up with such a small supply of No Rarity (posted my data in the holo population). Most of the Holos have had < 500 graded in totality! I totally forgot to write a proper post on the genre despite discussing it for months but felt it’s about right as Logan clearly has shown interest in the origins of Pokemon and he has mentioned No Rarity before in the clip i am posting. There is also only 1 Raichu PSA 10 in existance so making this the second hardest set to master set in a PSA 10 after the Corocoro Set which has 0 PSA 10 Ivy Pikachus.

Fanatics Auctions = Market Indicator If you’re not watching the fanatic auctions on Sunday evening you’re missing out on a lot of market data. Fanatic auctions has become a weekly event for all Pokemon and collectible lovers. This week Fanatics made bidding stricter so the prices once again can be more dependable. Despite the skepticism a lot of cards are once again hitting record levels.

No Rarity Charizard - Grading Premiums You can tell the No Rarity market is slowly maturing. Back in April prices for PSA 1-3 and 5-6 were practically the same price, if you were patient you could own PSA3 for practically the same price as a PSA 1. This highlights how little attention No Rarity had just a few months ago. Now the distinction between grades is becoming ever more clear similar to cards like gold stars. Latest Comps ( Previous ) *Estimates for those missing * PSA 1-8 only due to lack of data Today. April. PSA 1 - 6 (3.5) PSA 2 - 9.5 (4) PSA 3 - 11.4 (4) PSA 4 - 15. (6) PSA 5 - 17.5 (9) PSA 6 - 25* (10.5) PSA 7 - 46 (22) PSA 8 - 108 (40)* I suspect the entire No Rarities set will act more and more like gold stars with time and low tier grades difference will be established for the non Charizard holos. You are already beginning to slowly see this happening in Blastoise/Venusaur and Mewtwo too.

Time is valuable Don’t listen to anyone who says… “Just buy 151/AH/DR it’ll moon in 10 years time”. Instantly this is automatically a 🚩 . Why would you knowingly lock up your liquidity that could have been other sets that have 2-3-4-5x which then you could have sold and bought 3-5 times the number of 151 one year later Time has value and locking up your hard earned liquidity for 10 years of which 8-9 years it does nothing is a crime… I looked back at a bunch of cards i sold in March/April and noticed a lot of them are either DOWN or barely up since then!!! Base Set Char/Blast/Venu PSA 10 - Sold for 30k - Current avg 38k Exeggutor Trainer Bilingual PSA 10 - Sold for 3k - Current avg 3.7k Expedition Dragonite Holo PSA 10 - Sold for 7k - Current avg 6.5k On average these 3 are only up just 14% between March - October compared to the English and Japanese Promos is terrible. Still better than modern tho 🤣. But that being said, I feel its about time we monitor Japanese again as it has potential for a catch up play to English… just sometime i’ll be monitoring as I do think distribution will eventually happen in the next few months for English Set that have absolutely mooned which could free up liquidity that moves into specific Japanese sets. Just a hunch… I’ll revisit this post in a few months.

Scarcity where it matters - The Dittos With vintage markets at ATH its again always good to think where to allocate your funds to protect yourself for whatever is to come. People have been calling top for 12 months now… It ended up being a rotating into Vintage. But in the end we never know when a correction is coming… be prepared regardless. My focus remains on scarce sets or grades with narratives I believe in any correction these have the highest protection rate… 1. You could see rotation into scarce while markets tank 2. Less supply means less selling pressure 3. Usually scarce sets actually pump less meaning they dump less (lower volatility) 4. Long term you are likely to be better off, less of a hype cycle pump and dump True Scarcity - No Rarity, Mt Fuji Pikachu etc…. Graded Scarcity - Low pop PSA 8/9/10s One true scarcity I have hinted to months ago and I don’t see gets enough exposure are Delta Species Dittos by Yuka Morri. A huge fan of Yuka Morri as its a very distinctive art style and I consider my Corocoro Jumbo Pokemon Plaza as a forever keep. Disclosing: I don’t own any Delta Species they are english which I don’t collect either but If i was to start all over again I would focus on true scarcity with narratives like these.

$EUR / $GBP About time we get a bounce no? Or are we literally gonna make the meme Europoor reality?

Pocket Monsters It’ll be so obvious in 6-12 months time.

Revisiting Corocoro Ivy Pikachu Seeing a lot of Ivy Pikachu gang being very quiet on Corocoro so thought its a good time to chip in my 2c. Been about ~60 days since my last post… I feel a lot of people ended up buying the top of Corocoro Ivy Pikachu which is why it is also contributing to why it is performing so badly recently but lets be more objective here. Dig deeper and you will see where the value could be. Since last update here grading is still around 10+ per day which honestly isn’t great.. actually pretty bad tbh, but how is this impacting on the higher grade populations? PSA 9 - 1 PSA 8 - 3 PSA 7 - 16 PSA 6 - 65 That’s not so bad actually. Something tells me we r a lot closer to the floor now, while grading still is relatively high there maybe a chance to pick up a higher grade at a much more attractive price than say 2-3-4 months ago. Recent finds I can see are and they are all down 40-70% from post Cardbound drop. PSA 1 ~300+ (Peak 1k+) PSA 5 < 2k (Peak 5-6k) PSA 6 ~ 3-4k (Peak 6-8k) PSA 7 ~ 10k (Peak 17kish?) Now it seems the hype has officially gone and many of those who bought at the top are likely also selling. I personally still havn’t bought any yet and maybe never will… but it is definitely more attractive now and I am keeping an eye out.

Reality catching up with the Data Always did highlight Raichu and Clefairy and Venusaur No Rarity have unusually low pop rates for the higher grades. Seems people catching on. Two sales for PSA 8 Clefairy and a third on the way. Good to see Clefairy getting some love. A True Iconic OG Gen 1 Pokemon and Pokemon’s originally planned Mascot before Pikachu was choosen as the better alternative.

Viva la Resistance!! $EUR $DXY Added to full size but Tradfi been in hard mode recently so TPing with a tiny 1.5RR, a win is a win. Will look again once we trend above 4H trend. Still think the bullish div can play out and will ride try find an entry to ride momentum if it does.

The lost Charizard Brother Data a bit outdated because its back in April but thats irrelevant. 99.9% of people have no idea what this Charizard even is 😏 Back in April No Rarity PSA 8 - 30k Base Set PSA 10 - 30k Today No Rarity PSA 8 - 108k Base Set PSA 10 - 40k Hope you all choose wisely

France is Burning Starting a position on $EUR/USD 50% first, momentum slowing will look at add on next bullish divergence close. ~0.25% SL from here