Market is one of the most important elements in the FIFA Mobile game, and also one of its advantages over others because this market feature is rarely found in other football-themed games.
Market is the best place to speed up squad upgrades by transferring (buying and selling) players.
In this article, we will explain in detail how the market in FIFA Mobile works, and the various coin making methods that you can use in the market to make profits.
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How does FIFA Mobile market works?
The most basic thing you should know about FIFA Mobile market is, this market is not an open market. The market is regulated by market bot who act as a middle-man or broker.
So, the cards that you sell will not be visible to other users (buyers), and cards that are sell by other users cannot be seen by you either.
You as a buyer:
The cards you see in the market are cards sold by market bot. When you buy a card, the market bot will look at the listing queue and buy one of the cheapest cards, to replace the card you bought.
You as a seller:
When you sell a card, your card is listed in the queue with other sellers selling the same card. When a buyer buys the same type of card you are selling, the market bot will see a listing queue and pick up the one that is the cheapest. If your card is the cheapest among the other sellers in the queue, your card will be sold. But if not, then your card will have to wait again in the listing queue until all cards cheaper than yours in the queue are triggered by buyers and sold.
That is why many beginners in the market are confused about why their card is not sold even though it has cheaper price than the others in the market. The reason is because:
- There are no buyers who buy the same card in the market, so your card is not triggered. Or;
- There are buyers who buy the same card in the market, but your card is not the cheapest in the listing queue. In other words, cards from other sellers are triggered, not yours.
Keep in mind, you can’t see the cards that are being sold by other sellers, so you can never tell if your card is the cheapest or not in the listing queue (at least until your card is sold).
Start Price: The starting price of a card in the market. The start price is the price at which the market bot buys the card from the seller.
Current BID: The highest bid of a card at real time (live). This is where the bid war between buyers occurs.
Buy Now (BIN): The highest price for a card. You can buy and own the card right away (without having to bid) if you are willing to buy it at this price.
The Law of Supply and Demand in the real world is also applied to the FIFA Mobile market. The more supply a card is, the cheaper it will be (you can see it on the new event cards). And the less the supply of a card, the more expensive the price (you can see it on rare cards such as exclusive cards that can only be purchased from the store).
This Law of Supply and Demand can also be seen when there are events that require certain cards (such as the SBC event). Cards that are required at SBC events usually bounce in price because demand is much greater than supply.
How to unlock market
At the start of the season, the market is not automatically accessible. To unlock it, you must complete the Academy to Expert level (by claiming Ødegaard).
After completing the Academy, you can open the market by clicking market menu on the left of the screen.
How to Buy Players
To buy players, go to ‘Market‘, then click ‘Search‘ button.
In the search filter, you can filter the players you want to buy by name, OVR, league, position, price, and so on. When you’re done, click the ‘Search‘ button and players that match your filter will be shown where you can buy them.
How to Sell Players
To sell players, go to ‘Market‘, then click ‘Sell‘ button.
In the Sell Items page, drag and drop player that you want to sell. After that, set the maximum and minimum price, choose the listing duration (4, 8, 12, or 24 hours), then click ‘Post Item’.
You can also activate ‘Suggested Price‘ toggle if you want to autofill selling prices based on suggestions from the bot.
Market servers
There are 3 servers in FIFA Mobile market. This was done by EA to reduce coins selling practices.
To differentiate between them, users use the terms M1 (market 1), M2 (market 2), and M3 (market 3). In my country, people call it server A, server B, and server C.
Your account will automatically be on one of the servers and you cannot change it. Your account can only switch servers during the reset season (may or may not). I know this because I have several accounts, and during the reset season some of my accounts stayed on the same server, and some moved to another server.
Want to know which market you are in? Check the highest price of players below :
De Gea UCL
Hazard Freeze
C. Ronaldo TOTY
Market refresh time
Market on FIFA Mobile refreshes every 5 minutes (it could be a few seconds more or a few seconds less).
This is especially important if you want to buy players with sniping technique, because you know the exact time to refresh, you can buy new cards on the listing faster than other buyers.
Market Perk
In FIFA Mobile market, you will be charged 5% tax every time your card is sold. This tax will be removed when you reach VIP level 10.
Check our market tax calculator to calculate your after-tax earnings.
In our opinion, this Market Perk is the only reward that is useful in VIP, especially for f2p (free to play) players.
How to get coins in FIFA Mobile
You can get coins just from playing events, completing daily quests, or opening free packs in the store. But the fastest, most effective, and most impactful method is trading in the market. There are many methods to earn coins in the market, and we will discuss them in detail below.
Coin is one of the most important parts of FIFA Mobile, because you need it to upgrade your squad, train players, buy players, upgrade skill boosts, buy coin packs, upgrade Rank Up (RU), and so on. Now that you know how the market works, it is time for you to know the various methods to earn coins in FIFA Mobile.
Playing the Game (What EA want you to do)
Collecting coins by playing in-game events is the most normal, classic, and should be a priority in a game. And this is what EA wants you to do.
Ironically, this coin making method is no longer effective because the coin reward at events is now getting smaller and smaller. I’ve been playing FIFA Mobile games since this game called FIFA Ultimate Team (Rooney & Messi covers), so I feel those changes.
Sniping
Sniping is buying a cheap card that just dropped and resell it at a higher price.
If you have a fast internet connection, sniping can be a profitable method of making coins.
You just have to find out when the market refresh occurs, then get ready to snipe about 5 minutes later when the next refresh occurs.
To snipe effectively, refresh the market by searching for the card again (using search filter button), or exit to the main screen, then re-enter the market. This method is faster to refresh the market than using the refresh button (because the refresh button often displays the cache of the old cards and is rather slow to display the new cards).
Some examples of cards that are often snipped by users include elite cards (80+ OVR ratings) for under 50k, master cards (90+ OVR ratings) for under 500k, and many others.
Bidding
By bidding, you can get a card at a lower price because you don’t buy them at the highest price (BIN). Then you can sell it back for a profit.
Even though it seems simple, getting a significant profit from bidding is not easy. The profit is quite small because you are competing with other users to win the bid (commonly known as the bid war). The more users who take part in the bid war, the smaller the profit margin.
Bidding is also quite tiring because you have to be online when the card expires to make sure you win the bid.
Flipping
Warning: This method violates the EA TOS, so I am just explaining it as knowledge only.
Flipping is selling cards at a price cap one level above the lowest price in the market, then buying the lowest priced cards to trigger the bot to buy the cards we sold earlier. Once successful, we sell the cards again with a price cap one level higher, then buy all the cards in the market that are the cheapest. And so on.
So, flipping is basically creating a fake demand for the bot to buy our cards.
Manipulation
Warning: This method also violates the EA TOS, so I’m just explaining it here as knowledge only.
Almost the same as flipping, but manipulation is more difficult. Only experienced users in the market can do this. If done properly, the profits from manipulation can be very high. If not done properly, you could potentially go bankrupt.
If flipping increases the price gradually and carries out the buying and selling process many times, manipulation raises the price to the highest level by buying all the cards until they run out. Cards that are bought are only sold later when the price is very high.
The most crucial thing about manipulation is choosing the right card, and the trick of selling the card at the highest price.
Since this violates the EA TOS, I won’t go into more detail. If you are a market enthusiast, please find the trick yourself.
Fishing
This is a method that is popular lately and is widely used by beginners. This is very natural because fishing is the easiest (and most tiring) method of all the coin making methods I have described above.
The fishing method is to buy a large number of base cards at a low price (usually silver cards for under 1k, 2k, or 5k). After that, every day we check the auto suggestion of these cards. If there are cards whose price goes up, they can be sold for a profit. Just like that.
Fishing can be successful mostly due to flipping or manipulation by other users in the market. So when there are users flipping/manipulating to increase the price of a card, the player who is fishing makes a profit by selling the same card.
If someone says fishing occurs because of an unstable market (for which there is no logical explanation why it could happen), or card prices fluctuate because EA is designed that way, don’t believe it, even if the one who says it is a fishing expert. He clearly doesn’t know how the market works, and clearly has no experience in flipping or manipulation so it doesn’t make sense to him.
Investment
This last method is actually one of the most profitable (and in my opinion the most elegant), but it is less desirable because it requires patience and a good market analysis.
The investment method is that we buy cards when the price is the cheapest (usually cards from new events) then sell them later when the price has gone up.
Investing requires patience because it can takes 1 week, 2 weeks, or even more than a month to get a profit.
Investing also requires good analysis to predict which cards are likely to increase in price and which cards have the highest possible profit. Not only that, investing also requires a good analysis so that we don’t get stuck investing on the wrong cards and lose money.
Every season, investing is getting more difficult because EA continues to reduce the supply of coins in events (which makes users purchasing power decrease) and making unpredictable policies such as ‘Make it Good’ compensation.
By reducing the supply of coins in events (and replacing them with rewards in the form of new cards), market prices will remain low as new cards with better OVR and stats continue to flood the market.
The price of new cards will remain cheap as the majority of users get and sell them at the same time, which makes the supply abundant. This makes old cards (whose OVR ratings and stats are not as good as those of new cards) are hard to increase in price.
Is investment dead? Not yet. This coin making method is still very effective and promising, but you have to be smarter and more hard working than in previous seasons.
Conclusion
That’s a guide on how the market in FIFA Mobile works, and the various coin-making methods you can use (choose which doesn’t violate EA’s TOS of course;)).
Hopefully with this guide you will no longer be confused about how the FIFA Mobile market works and can transfer (buying and selling) cards effectively. If you have any questions about FIFA Mobile market, please post them in the comment below.
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AnyArrow says
Hai, is there a maximum number of a card in the game? Or the bot just keep create and sell them in the market?
admin says
The bot only creates a new card if the highest price of the card is purchased by the user and there are no other cards (extinct). So, unless a card becomes extinct, bots don’t create cards, they just act as a broker between sellers and buyers.
AnyArrow says
Hi, I know that fm21 will due soon. But there’s something I’m curious of about the market. So here it is:
“Player A tier 1 price” : Buy now price 420
“Player A tier 2 price” : Min bid 300, buy now price 900
1. I bought lots of “player A tier 1 price”, and I’m sure that there are no other players that bought “player A tier 1 price” beside me.
2. While I doing number 1 activity, I also bid “player A tier 2 price”, but I ofteen lost in the bidding, and the sold price is 900 (in the buy now price)
My question is, if there are no another players bought player A tier 1 price, who in the world beat me in the bidding of player A tier 2 price? Was it the bot who bought it? Could it be the bot?
Thanks
admin says
Bot NEVER buys players in the Live Market, because the bot itself sells those players. The ones who beat you in bids are other users. Not all users have the patience to buy the lowest price, especially for silver players with a price of only 900 coins.
Hmmmmm.... says
I did actually find a way to make money even though you have market tax. But this method really requires patient, so the profit is really high.
1. Buy all of the 70-74 base players under 3000 coins.
2. Sell all of the players you buy with 3900 – 3999, or more if you like.
Maths:
Market tax get your card down to 3700 (actually more), so you make your money at least 120% (if you’re patient enough to buy with your money). So if you’re having 2 000 000 coins, doing it 20 times would take you to 70 000 000 coins!
Hmmmmm.... says
I found two ways of having money, like this:
1. Search for players under 150 coins. Buy those players.
2. Go to SBC and squad for 3 60+ players.
3. Check the auto-suggest price. If it is less than 500, sell for 500, if it is less than 1000, sell 1000 or else sold for the suggested price for profits.
4. Money!
Second way.
1. Search for a 60+ for under 1200 coins. Buy those players.
2. Check auto-suggest price. If it is higher than 1500, just sell, and if not sell it at about 1100 – 1500.
3. Money again!
admin says
Nice tips for beginners
David says
I have two accounts …both are same market server….I sell one player in one account but in another account I cannot see that player(both are same market server).
admin says
Re-read the guide again
Parham says
Hi You can come to the Aparat and search parham10
I say how you can fishing
Vlad says
Thanks for all this hard work. Could you please explain what happens when the new card enters the market. Here is my recent example from the league matchups rewards:
1. New card enters the market. I claimed it and posted for sale within the first 10-15 seconds. The suggested price was 36mil, I changed both min and buy now prices to 12mil and posted.
2. After 4 min some of the new cards appeared on the market. Two cards had min price over 30 mil. The rest under 5 mil. My card not sold. In total there are 26 cards on the market.
3. Wait another 3-5 min and I see one card with 15mil min price. How could someone sell for 15 mil if my 12 mil is not sold? There are about 30 cards on the market at this time
4. One hour later, my card not sold, there are 96 cards on the market.
My understanding is that bot needs certain inventory of cards and buts at any price until this inventory is filled. If this number is, say 96, then why didn’t it buy my card when there was 26-30 cards on the market?
How did two persons manage to sell at 30mil+? I mean within the first few sec there must have been cards below 5 mil, because I posted mine within 10-15 sec.
How come someone sold for 15 mil if my card is for sale for 7-10 min by this moment?
admin says
The first two cards (minimum price 30 million) are probably the cards created by the bot itself (not from users). When new cards enter the market, usually the first cards that appear with the highest prices are made by the bot itself.
And for cards that are sold at a minimum price of 15 million, are you sure the card is not animated? Because normal and animated cards have their own set of prices and are not related to each other.
Vlad says
This is a whole new perspective. Not sure, it could be animated, i never paid attention before. So, these animated cards are like totally different cards, different selling queue, etc? I checked now the same card and there are now many more cards over 15 mil, all animated. Are these all created by bot or someone claimed animated cards and sold for 15 mil+?
So with the new cards, is it possible to sell first at high price or even if you post first, the bot waits for like 5 min and then compares the selling prices at the end of 5 min and chooses the lowest to fill inventory?
admin says
Yes, normal and animated cards are totally different on selling queue, price caps, etc.
“Are these all created by bot or someone claimed animated cards and sold for 15 mil+?”. Can be both.
Even if you post first, the bot waits for like 5 min and then compares the selling prices at the end of 5 min and chooses the lowest to fill inventory. But, it is still possible to sell at high price in the first 5 minutes, especially if the card is very rare. E.g: high ovr animated cards, cards exclusive to p2w, POTM animated cards, etc.
Jyot says
What is the 94 ovr Raphael Guerriero (from TOTS event) market price in Fifa mobile 21
dave says
search in market, there are 3 markets so only you will know what price he is in your market
Rockybroo says
I’ve found many articles for how to flip but none of them tell anything about manipulation. Can you please give me a link to a manipulation guide or explain how to do it because I couldn’t find any video or article which mentioned it
admin says
Few know this trick and even if they do, they may not be able to practice and master it. You need a capital of at least 30 million coins just to manipulate 1 elite card, so this can only be done by veteran users in the market. I’m not even sure if any youtuber can do this trick.
rxdud says
thx bro its really helping me out i can get a load of coins now !!
BL4Z3 says
Can any admin explain it to me cause I didn’t understand fishing.
Thank u
Rockybroo says
Fishing is basically buying at least 1000 cards of a particular ovr of cards and sell it when the bot is buying cards of that ovr or that ovr is “spiking”