Cardboard Assets is a Bloomberg-style market terminal for trading-card collectibles, focused on Pokémon and Magic: The Gathering. The platform’s flagship feature compares every booster box (and every basket of booster boxes per TCG era) against the S&P 500 Total Return — the honest baseline a serious investor would want to see.
We treat cardboard as an asset class. That means honest accounting: PriceCharting median sold comps for sealed history, FRED + Yahoo Finance for the benchmark series, alpha quoted in percentage points alongside CAGR. If a basket beat or lost to the S&P, we say so plainly.
A few things that activate over the coming weeks:
- Daily price agents push fresh prices into the database; once history accumulates, the homepage Top Movers table becomes a true 24-hour ranking.
- Pop data integration unlocks the optimizer (verdict + per-grader probability bars) and the cross-grader pop comparison panel on every card page.
- Newsletter + deep-dive agents start publishing weekly market intelligence on Sunday and Friday cadences.
The data we publish is the data a serious investor would want to read. No asterisks, no defensive qualifications.