Time

Over the last few episodes, I walked through my first full year of selling sports cards...my wins, my mistakes, and what I learned in buying, selling, and grading. Today is different. This one is slower, more reflective, and honestly one of the most important frameworks I’ve shared:

 How time actually works in the sports card market.

In this episode I cover:

• Market cycles & engineered scarcity
  • Why we’re living in an era of engineered scarcity
  • How Kabooms became the “reserve currency of flippers”
  • Why bull markets push money into SSPs and inserts… until liquidity tightens
• Risk-on vs risk-off and the flight to safety
  • What happens when geopolitical risk and macro events flip the switch
  • How smart money quietly rotates out of hype and into safer stores of value
  • Why modern parallels get hit first when the music stops
• The three time taxes on every card you buy
  1. Narrative decay – media hype, attention, and the slow fade when storylines die
  2. Opportunity cost – what you can’t buy because your money is stuck
  3. Liquidity risk – getting trapped in illiquid players, sets, or parallels
• Velocity of money vs “being right”
  • Why I’ll take 20% in two weeks over “maybe 100% in six months”
  • When it makes sense to break your own rules and let winners compound
  • How to recognize when an investment thesis is dead and it’s time to take the loss
• Using your 1,440 minutes like capital
  • Why time is your second balance sheet—right next to your cash
  • How to audit your strengths/weaknesses and build a trading journal
  • The system I use to log every purchase and sale, and find patterns in my own behavior
• Buying back your time with consignment

If you’ve ever:

• Sat on a cold prospect hoping “it gets back to what I paid”
• Felt stuck with cards you don’t love, but don’t want to lose on
• Wondered how to balance time, capital, and attention in this hobby

…this episode is meant to be a reset button.

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