Q & A Tuesday – Week 11
A weekly thread meant for discussion about anything and everything related to the FUT market. Pose your questions about player prices, investing and trading strategies, or upcoming events. I will answer questions as quickly as I can, but if you can respond before I do, feel free to hop in the conversation!
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Chief, since the prices have started increasing when do you think is a good time to buy an elite squad(cost~1m) ?
Prices will most likely continue to rise over the next couple weeks. Then, they will start to decline on FUTmas and leading up to TOTY. If you want to buy a squad now, do it as soon as possible.
What players are in your squad?
Actually i want to buy some elite players like Ibra, Mertens, Boateng, Alaba, Neuer etc and i am not going to be around my console until 16 december. So you think its a good idea to buy players somewhere towards the end of december?
Yes, if you are not going to be on console for the next few weeks I would hold off on buying a team until later in late December/early January.
I would like to see a tips and tricks article. Like how to maximise your trading. I find that I invest in MM cards but then I’m not able to invest much else until I start selling because I don’t have the space to store anything. What is the best way to I optimise buying/investing/selling?
Also, are there any plans for a forum?
In fact, you can invest in an infinite amount of cards. See this article to learn how. I’d say that is your best trick for “investment optimization”.
As for players to invest in outside of MM, I always have my eyes on high rated informs from current Team of the Weeks. My trade pile is stocked with Zieler at the moment because he is 82 rated, plays in a good league (Bundesliga) and has a good nation (Germany). These cards get depleted because they are used for SBCs, and as their supply decreases their prices increases. I often put out a Sunday watch list of players I like for investing, because Sunday is a good buy day (see this article for a weekly buy/sell schedule).
I wasn’t planning on doing a forum, but I think a discord channel might be a good idea. I will put out a poll in the coming days to gauge interest.
Chief, it would be really helpful if you did a weekly guide on sunday the players to must buy like you did with zieler
I’ll be sure to do it this Sunday!
I do want to mention, though, that there are situations where Sundays are not the optimal “buy day” for current Team of the Weeks. For example, Black Friday was the best time to buy Zieler. When an event occurs where there are massive amounts of packs opened, that is the best time to buy. We don’t have any big events coming up in the next few weeks, though, so I’ll definitely put out a “Squad Battle Rewards Watch List” this Sunday.
(like the one I posted here.)
chief.
i think that this article: https://futchief.com/index.php/2017/09/22/at-125k-day-2-fifa-0-spent/
is the best article on the site because it made me hundreds and thousands of coins. The mass bidding was what made me loads of coins and i think that the site will be 100 times better if you posted more mass bidding methods.
Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find any mass bidding methods that are nearly as successful as this method was. It was a gold mine. If I do find another method, I’ll be sure to post it.
Insigne IF is good investment? He is gonna be more expensive?
He bottomed out on Sunday and has risen a few thousand coins already, but I’d expect him to keep rising. He is the best LW option in the Calcio A at the moment.
A player will be expensive depending on the number of cards on the market
If you see a card a lot on the market he wont get that much price increase
But if you do want to sell, sell it on a Friday choice being yours.
Also if you want to know if Insigne will have an increase , just see how the price varied for Immobile, El Shaarawy and Icardi
Hi mate! One question, now about the packs. When i catch the packs, it’s advisable open the packs at the moment or wait some event? I ask becouse i have a lot of packs unopened and i don’t know what i do.
And cg that website, helps a lot!
Ideally, you want to be opening your packs when you have the best chance at packing expensive players. That is why people hold their packs until TOTY or wait until there is a stellar TOTW.
That being said, another thing you have to consider is how the market overall will decline as you hold on to your packs. If you do choose to hold on to your packs until TOTY, then there is also a chance that the base cards you pack later on won’t have as much of a value as they do now. In addition, you don’t have the ability to use the coins from the packs you open now for investing; its like they are sitting in a savings account with no interest being gained. Its opportunity cost, really.
Hope that helps! Let me know if it was unclear.
Dude love your explains, sounds so clear, thanks a lot man.
Only i have one question, when do you do the next fifa fantasy? Love your fantasys man, helps a lot to noob investors for do some coins!
There wasn’t enough interest in Fantasy FIFA, so I decided to replace it with SB Rewards Watch Lists. I’ll be posting the next one on Sunday.
Ohh I will miss them :(.
Nice, Saturday I will be here ;).
Not Saturday, Sunday.
Chief, which players should we invest on for POTM considering Salah is most likely gonna win it?
The safest bets for POTM investing are always high rated, PL players. David Silva is the cheapest 87 rated player at 28k. The next closest is Eriksen at 68k, and the cheapest 87 rated player in the game is 25k (Handanovic). That means that Silva has a lot of room to rise, but not a whole lot of room to fall.
The same goes with Ozil. He is the cheapest 88 rated PL player at 39k, with the next being Lloris at 60k. The cheapest 88 in the game is Thiago at 38k. Again, a lot of room to rise, but not much room to fall.
But I think your best look is Coutinho. His situation compares to Silva/Ozil as he is the cheapest 86 in the PL. The best part? He plays for Liverpool. EA often requires players from the winner’s club, so Coutinho really covers all of your bases.
Do one to watch players get upgraded statts if its card gets a TOTM upgrade?
I assume you mean “POTM” when you say “TOTM”. But no, they do not get upgrades for that.
A couple of weeks ago you recommended IF Lozano. I picked up a few of them and I see his price rising. Should I sell now? Do you think his card will get much higher? Should I keep him for future sbc’s?
I sold mine off a while ago, but I also noticed that his price rose nicely over the past couple days. I’d recommend selling him Friday, then use the coins you make to invest in some new players on Sunday (from TOTW 11).
Chief i have an IF mustafi 87 when should i sell him on thursday or Friday?
Thx
I’d say start listing now for a few thousand coins above the lowest BIN, and continue to do so over the next couple days. You might get a lazy buyer to pick yours up.
Oh man, I forgot ask you about Squad Battles!
How much money you think what i need for build a competitive squad for squadd battles? (For fut champs i play with Premier arround 500k and my second team was a 40k serie A, but actually i have lot of problems for win with my serie A in squadd battles (2 weeks ago i win the most of games on legendary but now i can’t)
That’s a pretty difficult question to answer, because I could recommend a 50k squad that plays awesome for your style of play, or I could recommend a 250k squad that plays like shit. I would say try the 3421 formation in squad battles if you haven’t. Since I’ve switched to that, I’ve had much more success.