Research
Price data tells you what cards sold for. Poke-Trade also sees what collectors are watching, trading, tagging, scanning, insuring and trying to buy — signals that exist because of what happens on the platform, not because of what a marketplace published.
Activity counts are not published yet
The underlying activity is recorded, but turning member behaviour into public leaderboards needs an aggregation and minimum-population policy first — counts drawn from a small active population can identify individual collectors. The signals and the rules they will be published under are below. We would rather show you nothing than a number we made up about our own members.
Each one comes from a distinct part of the platform, and each answers a question price data cannot.
Cards added to want lists. An early demand signal — collectors watch before they buy.
Want lists
Cards appearing on both sides of documented trades. Reflects liquidity between collectors rather than retail sales.
Documented trades
Cards bound to a physical Smart Tag. Collectors tag what they intend to keep and prove.
Smart Tags
Cards identified through the scanner. Captures what people are pulling and sorting right now.
Card scans
Cards entering collections. Distinguishes what is being accumulated from what is merely being viewed.
Portfolios
Cards appearing in insurance documentation. A direct signal of what collectors consider genuinely valuable.
Insurance records
Cards routed through Poke-Trade Verification. Concentrates on high-value transactions.
Verification
Cards people are trying to buy outright. Demand with intent attached.
Buy-Now
Written down before any number appears, so the rules cannot be retrofitted to whatever the data happens to show.
An insight is a count across many collectors. No page will ever show what a named member owns, watches or insures.
A signal is only published for a card once enough distinct collectors contribute to it that no single person's behaviour can be inferred from the number.
These signals describe attention and intent. A heavily watched card is not thereby worth more, and these numbers are not a valuation.
Every figure carries the window it covers. 'Most traded' means nothing without a period attached to it.
