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How the FUT market actually works

Why prices move, what a price range is, and the 5% tax that decides whether a trade was ever worth doing. The thing to read before anything else.

Every card in Ultimate Team has a price range set by EA — a floor and a ceiling it can never trade outside. Everything else is supply and demand between those two walls.

Supply comes from packs. When a promo drops, millions of packs are opened and the market floods; prices fall. When packs dry up, supply stops and prices drift back up. That cycle is most of trading.

Demand comes from what people need: an SBC that eats a particular league, a promo that makes a nation relevant, a weekend where everyone rebuilds their team.

Then there's the tax. EA takes 5% of every sale. Buy at 100k and sell at 105k and you have made nothing — you have lost time. Every number we post already accounts for it, and you should never do the sum without it.

The methods themselves are in the library

Sniping filters, the OP method, promo timing and SBC solutions — on video, alongside the daily calls. Seven days free to look around.

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EA tax, margins and what a trade is really worthThe arithmetic that separates a profitable flip from a busy one. Work out your true break-even before you buy, not after you have sold.Your first flip, start to finishPick a card, set the filter, buy it, list it, take the profit. One complete trade with nothing assumed and nothing skipped.Reading a price graph without kidding yourselfWhat a three-day range tells you, what it does not, and why a flat line is not a buy signal no matter how much you want it to be.

How the FUT market actually works

The methods themselves are in the library

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