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Icon Flipping Guide
🕑 Added 2021-09-08 12:18:28 +0000 UTCWhat is Icon Flipping?
Icon Flipping is a specific Special Card Flipping technique focused on Icon Cards. This guide will cover the differences compared to Special Card Flipping and unique points of Icon Flipping that’s why it's recommended to read the Special Card Flipping Guide before.
Icons are effective to trade with because of their rarity. They are the rarest and most in-demand meta cards all year long. This is the reason you can see better fluctuations and they hold their prices better. Also, the daily content rarely hurts them, so it’s pretty safe to trade them daily.
To clear a common question, Icon Flipping is recommended with a starting budget of at least 1-2m coins, but it starts to show good profits with a budget of 10m+.
Key Differences
The 59th-minute Technique
This is a special Technique used for Icon Flipping.
The idea of the 59th-minute technique is to get to the first page of newly listed cards, that’s the place most deals can be found! You click the next page until you reach the page that has all the 59th-minute listings.
To make this the most efficient, you need to get to the 59th minute as fast as possible! In general, you can say that the Webapp is faster than the Companion app and that the Console is the slowest out of all 3 options.
The console is the worst by far because of the menu lag and the way that Icons are displayed individually. That means you have to select each Icon before seeing the price.
Webapp is the best option. You have more listings per page which allow you to scroll faster and it shows every Icon price below each other.
Market View
Another difference between Special Card Flipping is the market view.
Instead of searching cards one by one, you can group the Icons with the Icon League. That theoretically allows you to be able to flip all 100 Icons and each version of these with just 1 filter!
We still use specific filters to separate a few Icons from each other or find deals we can afford.
Icon Filters
Under 500k Filter
This is a very beginner filter but also a very fundamental one.
Icons below 500k usually sell faster and they provide a solid ROI. That makes this filter easy to use and fast to learn. On top of that, the risk is relevantly low as most of these cards stay around the same prices for almost a week before showing a downtrend. That’s due to the consistent supply but these are still Icons and they don’t get that much supplied like Gold Cards.
Basic Chemistry Style
That’s very effective on Thursdays and also on promo weekends with Lightning Rounds! It shows you a higher % of the newly packed cards/fresh cards as you don’t get any cards with a chemistry style applied. This also makes sniping easier and helps to find bigger undercuts! On top of that, fresh icons sell for a little bit because some people like clean records on the cards
Position Filter - Defender/Midfielder/Attacker
That’s the main filter I use. I just change the position and get to the 59th min way faster! This allows you to pinpoint the Icons much better and you can find deals easier.
59th Min Sniping Filter
A filter many Icon traders know about but don’t like to talk about. You set your max. bid at 150k-180k and the min. bin at 300-350k. This filter allows you to find more crazy deals, especially during panic times. People with less trading knowledge like to list cards for min bid and then a massive undercut on the bin, this filter shows these faster!
Ideally, this filter shows you only 2-3 pages until the 59th minute and that can make a huge difference for your Icon Trading. It doesn’t show all Icons, it only shows Icons that get listed at min. bid price, that’s why this is also called the Panic Filter or Timmy Filter.
Last notes
Patience
Icon flipping is not an easy thing to master and you have to be prepared to take some Ls in the learning process. This counts for almost every trading method but Icon Trading is one of the toughest to understand and do throughout the year. You will face situations when the Icon Market just isn’t doing what you want and you have to learn from these mistakes.
List high for Overnights
Due to Icons being so rare, overnight sales can get high! List them for your aimed sell price for 6h/12h and you might get lucky and hit a nice overnight high.
Friday past 6 pm
Now, this is easily the most profitable flipping you can do, but there aren't always opportunities to flip Icons on Fridays as explained in the Rebound Trading Guide.
Important to say here, as long as there's not content that makes them lose value, the rebound is very likely. People just love to panic and the buyback after 6 pm is usually strong!
Summary
- Very similar to Special Card Flipping
- Allows a bigger view of the market
- Useful all year
