{ "url": "https://www.moonstonehq.com/articles/daily-liquidity-leaderboard", "slug": "daily-liquidity-leaderboard", "title": "The Daily Tape: Which Pokémon Cards Actually Sell Every Single Day", "summary": "We counted every recorded eBay sale for 500 of the market's busiest cards over 30 days: 6,041 sales, 42% of them in just ten names, and a wall of 3,000-listing commons that never traded once.", "section": "Market Structure", "published": "2026-08-11", "readMinutes": 8, "publisher": "moonstone", "findings": [ { "value": "6,041", "measures": "recorded sales in 30 days", "basis": "across the 500-card sweep" }, { "value": "42%", "measures": "of all sales in just 10 cards", "basis": "65% in the top 25" }, { "value": "17.3/day", "measures": "the fastest tape", "basis": "Mega Charizard X ex 125/094" }, { "value": "356 of 500", "measures": "cards with zero recorded sales", "basis": "listings are not liquidity" } ], "tables": [ { "title": "The top 15 by daily sales, with week-over-week pace", "columns": [ "Card", "Sold / 30d", "Per day", "Last 7 days", "Median price" ], "rows": [ { "Card": "[Mega Charizard X ex 125/094](/card/me02-125) ([Phantasmal Flames](/set/phantasmal%20flames))", "Sold / 30d": "518", "Per day": "17.3", "Last 7 days": "14.0/day", "Median price": "$1,900" }, { "Card": "[Pikachu with Grey Felt Hat (SVP 085)](/card/svp-085)", "Sold / 30d": "344", "Per day": "11.5", "Last 7 days": "11.0/day", "Median price": "$1,288" }, { "Card": "[Mew ex 232/091](/card/sv04.5-232) ([Paldean Fates](/set/paldean%20fates))", "Sold / 30d": "289", "Per day": "9.6", "Last 7 days": "8.7/day", "Median price": "$1,125" }, { "Card": "[Pikachu ex 276/217](/card/me02.5-276) ([Ascended Heroes](/set/ascended%20heroes))", "Sold / 30d": "259", "Per day": "8.6", "Last 7 days": "3.3/day", "Median price": "$2,325" }, { "Card": "[Mega Gengar ex 284/217](/card/me02.5-284) (Ascended Heroes)", "Sold / 30d": "256", "Per day": "8.5", "Last 7 days": "7.6/day", "Median price": "$2,152" }, { "Card": "[Lugia V alt art](/card/swsh12-186) ([Silver Tempest](/set/silver%20tempest))", "Sold / 30d": "212", "Per day": "7.1", "Last 7 days": "6.1/day", "Median price": "$1,350" }, { "Card": "[Umbreon ex SIR](/card/sv08.5-161) ([Prismatic Evolutions](/set/prismatic%20evolutions))", "Sold / 30d": "206", "Per day": "6.9", "Last 7 days": "7.1/day", "Median price": "$1,675" }, { "Card": "[Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex](/card/sv10-231) ([Destined Rivals](/set/destined%20rivals))", "Sold / 30d": "204", "Per day": "6.8", "Last 7 days": "6.3/day", "Median price": "$1,125" }, { "Card": "[Umbreon VMAX alt secret](/card/swsh7-215) ([Evolving Skies](/set/evolving%20skies))", "Sold / 30d": "139", "Per day": "4.6", "Last 7 days": "4.1/day", "Median price": "$4,261" }, { "Card": "[Mewtwo GX secret](/card/sm3.5-78) ([Shining Legends](/set/shining%20legends))", "Sold / 30d": "132", "Per day": "4.4", "Last 7 days": "4.7/day", "Median price": "$1,524" }, { "Card": "[Mega Dragonite ex 290/217](/card/me02.5-290) (Ascended Heroes)", "Sold / 30d": "132", "Per day": "4.4", "Last 7 days": "", "Median price": "$1,505" }, { "Card": "[Gengar VMAX alt secret](/card/swsh8-271) ([Fusion Strike](/set/fusion%20strike))", "Sold / 30d": "127", "Per day": "4.2", "Last 7 days": "", "Median price": "$1,843" }, { "Card": "[Giratina V alt art](/card/swsh11-186) ([Lost Origin](/set/lost%20origin))", "Sold / 30d": "126", "Per day": "4.2", "Last 7 days": "", "Median price": "$1,000" }, { "Card": "[Dragonite V alt art](/card/swsh7-192) (Evolving Skies)", "Sold / 30d": "120", "Per day": "4.0", "Last 7 days": "", "Median price": "$1,050" }, { "Card": "[Rayquaza VMAX alt secret](/card/swsh7-218) (Evolving Skies)", "Sold / 30d": "109", "Per day": "3.6", "Last 7 days": "", "Median price": "$2,700" } ] } ], "charts": [ { "title": "Cards sold per day, 30-day average", "unit": " sold/day", "note": "Recorded eBay sales, July 12 to August 10, 2026", "points": [ { "label": "Mega Charizard X ex 125", "value": 17.3, "basis": "med $1,900" }, { "label": "Grey Felt Hat Pikachu", "value": 11.5, "basis": "med $1,288" }, { "label": "Mew ex 232 (Paldean Fates)", "value": 9.6, "basis": "med $1,125" }, { "label": "Pikachu ex 276 (Ascended)", "value": 8.6, "basis": "med $2,325" }, { "label": "Mega Gengar ex 284", "value": 8.5, "basis": "med $2,152" }, { "label": "Lugia V alt art", "value": 7.1, "basis": "med $1,350" }, { "label": "Umbreon ex SIR (Prismatic)", "value": 6.9, "basis": "med $1,675" }, { "label": "TR's Mewtwo ex 231", "value": 6.8, "basis": "med $1,125" }, { "label": "Moonbreon (alt secret)", "value": 4.6, "basis": "med $4,261" }, { "label": "Mewtwo GX secret", "value": 4.4, "basis": "med $1,524" } ] } ], "sections": [ "Liquidity lives at the top of the price ladder", "Listings are not liquidity" ], "method": [ "Universe: 500 candidate cards drawn from moonstone's market cache, the union of the 300 highest active-listing counts and the 200 highest market values, deduplicated. For each card we pulled its recorded eBay sales feed (dated, per grade) and counted sales landing July 12 through August 10, 2026 (the last 30 full days as of the August 11 pull). 'Recorded sales' is the comp tape used to price the market: it captures graded sales and price-relevant raw sales, and under-counts low-value bulk transactions, which is precisely why a 3,000-listing common can show zero. Medians are the middle recorded sale price in the window across all grades, so they sit near where the volume actually is (heavily PSA 9/10). Week-over-week pace compares the final 7 days with the 30-day average, and is reported only for the top ten, which is why the last five rows of the table leave that column blank rather than filling it. Every figure above comes from that single pull; nothing is modeled." ], "terms": "Figures are moonstone's own recorded measurements, dated as published. Quote them with the population stated beside them. The article at `url` is the human form of this file." }