 Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. A quick late night, early morning, wherever you are, market talk video for you guys. Heading into this Friday, big day in FIFA Ultimate Team with the icon swap promo coming out, possibly player of the month, and a couple other things as well. So I wanna kinda cover some of that stuff today, really quick, get this video up as soon as I can to you guys. And especially talk about what happened on the market today. Talk about Thursday flips and how that worked this week and how EA really messed that up and how we've seen this multiple times now where they kinda drop an SBC that really changes the market. And I wanna talk about those SBCs. We'll start by talking on that topic. Start by talking on that topic. So today in FIFA Ultimate Team, we got the Flashback Lucas Pease Check SBC. It's gonna be the best ride back in the Bundesliga for a while. If you're gonna do this SBC, I recommend waiting to do it until Sunday night squad battle rewards. There'll be a lot of cards you could probably get for cheaper on the market. There may be requirements for this. It's out for three days so you don't have a ton of time, but that's kinda the best timeframe. I know you guys wanna rock Bundesliga squads. That's gonna be your best Bundesliga ride back in my eyes until team of the year. So if you wanna Bundesliga squad, and that guy's probably gonna get in your team. Yesterday we had the strong start SBC that dropped some of the market. I have to go back here to completed SBCs to show you the one that came out today. That is the Volta Football SBC. Basically, very cheap SBC. Caughts you like what, 10K or less to do that SBC. And it gives you a 35K pack. They also came out with marquee matchups today with a couple decent packs. Half of a 50K pack. France versus Turkey, premium gold players, 25K. And then a rare mixed, I think. A rare electron player pack for completing everything. So there were some packs that came out on the market today. Specifically that 35K pack, the Volta SBC, which was basically just EA giving out a free 35K pack. It's basically what it was and that affected the market a lot today. You saw it on Tuesday or on Wednesday as well with that strong start SBC. A very cheap SBC and it dropped the gold card market. Kinda like a little bit of a dip. Today it was more severe though because we had the 35K pack but we also had marquee matchups and some people doing peace check. So on the market you saw a lot of downturn. Also a quick new little thing here. We got that nice little transition. Shout out to one of the stream followers and Twitter followers for that. Pretty dope. But this is the market on footbin. Thursday after awards. During rewards time we were down here at 85 points. Rewards came. The market rose into the middle of the day up to 91 points. The market was nice. It was on an up slope. It was rising nicely and on to Thursday, which is what we'd like to see for Thursday flips. And then EA dropped these SBCs today and it tanks the market because they were just basically giving out packs. They're giving out packs like that. Everybody does them. Open those packs up and people sell those players causing a drop in the market. So if you guys had a week in league flips today a lot of them were probably you were making coins on them up until 6pm UK that content came out and it dropped. We've seen that multiple times from EA already this year where they've come out with an SBC and it seems like they're putting out this SBC to stop the market rise. They kind of did it on Wednesday with a strong start and they did it today with the Volta Football SBC. So this is something that we're gonna have to watch out for because it seems like EA has kind of added this to their arsenal of some ways to kind of control market movements dropping an SBC like this. But I wanna mention that this is not, they're not gonna be able to do this every single week with a 35K pack and with marquee matchups because as we move on throughout the year you have to remember right now it's early on. We're in a very early part of the year. The game has been out for how many weeks? Like two weeks, three weeks? Almost three weeks. There's still not a ton of supply on the market. Think about it that in that way. The total number of transfers on the market right now is like what, it gets to like five million in the day on PS. Once we get to like Black Friday and maybe Team of the Year times like that, you're gonna see that number probably get seven, eight, nine million, I can actually check over here in Footbin for live auctions. The highest number of live auctions I digress. The highest number of live auctions to be seen on the market was actually nine million. They hit that today. Nine million auctions today, it was seven million before. So I was off by saying five. But you're gonna continue to see this number go up higher because basically the reason why this SBC, the reason why this SBC affected the market so much today and it was only a 35K pack was because there was still early game and there isn't a ton of supply already on the market yet. Yes, there's been tons of packs opened. Yes, there's been tons of that stuff. But we're still in the early game and as the game continues to go on, you're gonna have more and more supply. Your supply is gonna grow and it's gonna grow and that's why we see player prices drop. The demand maybe stays the same for a Vardy, for a Soco, for a Benyeter, but people graduate from those cards into higher rated cards, into Lacazettes, into Firminos, into Griezmann's and you see the value and the demand for those lower rated cards drop and their supply grows on the market as the year goes and as more packs are opened and everything like that. So as you see that supply grow, it's gonna take a lot bigger pack and a lot more packs to impact the market. So right now we're kind of at this range, a 35K pack can impact the market at this size and at this stage. Maybe in two months when the market's here after Black Friday, they have to do a 50K pack to make some sort of a drop in the market. So I don't think they're gonna be able to do this very easily all the time because they're not just gonna give out 50K packs for us for free and crash the market like that. But it's gonna happen from time to time. We just have to be aware and be ready for it. And sometimes, like today, maybe take a little bit of a hit. I have some Sancho's that I took a hit on today, 19,000 coins, I took a little bit of a hit on them. Actually, those were from last night. I bought those at like 23, 24K, going for a week in the flip and boom, he went down 19K. I actually bought a couple of them today as well like 19K when the Peshack SBC came out and he went down after the packs were opened. So that's what's gonna happen with some of these cards, but the other side of the spectrum is these packs come onto the market and what it does is it creates more coins on the market. People spent five to 10,000 coins to do that SBC and then boom, all of a sudden, instead of having five or 10,000 coins getting back from that SBC, you're opening a mega pack. Maybe you pack a Soco or a Mendy or a Bagnetta or a Walkout and you're looking at 30, 40, 50,000 coins coming back into your club from a pack pool. You're positive on that exchange of coins. So you turned in 10,000 coins and you got back possibly more. Obviously not everybody was gonna get that, but this SBC was so available to everybody today that the quantity really is what makes the market move. So today, again, you see this huge drop and it started to rise back up a decent amount and it's continually rising, but there are still some cards in the market that are very cheap, some of the lower rate of ones that don't have as much demand anymore or whatever the case may be. Some of these cards are still kind of low in the market. If you bought cards in this timeframe, two hours after the SBC, you're looking great. You're looking great, a lot of those cards are up and I think you're gonna see those cards rise up into the next day or so, into Friday with the icon swaps coming. That's the second point and the good thing about this. When they drop packs like this on the market, very easy packs, it's almost like a lightning round. A bunch of packs are opened, cards come onto the market, prices drop, but people then have coins where they can go onto the market and then buy players and that's the positive that we're gonna be seeing from this SBC. Right now, Martial somewhere around 60-ish thousand coins. If we go over here and flip in and look at his actual price, what was Martial today? It looks like Martial's price has gone from, we'll go on the hourly graph and look at the pack supply today. So he was 57K before rewards, rewards came, he was up to 62K at one point, the pack supply came, he dipped to 54K, rebounded very nice, back up to basically around 60,000 coins raised right now at the moment and I think cards like this that are very desirable, very meta are just gonna keep going because people still have the coins to pay for these cards. This is a more expensive card for a casual but people still have a lot of coins. So that's why you saw earlier today a lot of the cards that moved the most for weak link rewards were the higher rated, the higher price cards. Lacazette went from 109,000 coins last night before rewards up to 128 and as you can see, he's almost back up there right now, 125, 126, after he dipped back down during the packs today, the pack SBC time down to 110K. So that's what I wanna mention about this. If EA keeps putting out SBCs like this where they're gonna kind of crash the market for a short amount of time and then make it seem like everybody's losing coins and make everybody panic sell, you're okay because the market should be going up after that because all those coins coming on the market means more coins for people to go and buy, we can lead players and push other areas of the market up. So there's that. I wanna talk about that with you guys for a bit because there's kind of a negative to it. Our Thursday flips might not have gone so well but it created another opportunity to invest and see the market go up, which I think it will go up this morning, Friday into six PM UK, we'll see what happens then. That's what I wanna talk about next. The icon stuff, the icon objectives, the icon, well, we actually got a card design. I wanna show you guys this right now. What is this Twitter I'm looking for right now? It is Footwatch is what I'm looking for on Twitter. Over here on Footwatch, they have actually released the picture of the icon swaps card. This is what icon swap one cards will look like, the tokens basically that we're going for that we will have to turn in for these icon objectives. And again, many people are thinking that these are gonna be through SBCs. I have been led to believe through the icon pitch notes that these icon tokens will only be attainable through objectives. That's what everybody has told me. That's what it seems like to me. So we're gonna kinda test that and see what comes out tomorrow. Tomorrow will be the real test of what we see with that but that's what it looks like. It's only gonna be through objectives. And people are wondering, is this gonna create some panic on the market? I hope not. I honestly hope not because if it creates panic on the market, that's honestly disgraceful because there should not be any panic on gold cards and cards that have nothing to do with icons if this is purely objective based. It should have no impact on the gold market, on the meta gold market at all. It really shouldn't. The only area where it might have some impact would be on the icons. There could be some panic selling tomorrow morning of people that are thinking, okay, maybe this icon that I have, like Butra Gweno. Maybe Butra Gweno, he is in icon swap number one. Maybe somebody has them like, oh shoot, this card's gonna be very easy to get. One million right now, this card is way high. There's no way this sells. Please tell me there's no way that this actually is gonna sell. I'm gonna watch that card because that's very high. But let's say there's some panic on this card in the morning, that's the only thing that can make sense because somebody thinks, hey, I'm gonna lose coins if I don't sell this card now before the icon swaps come out and before this card is gonna be attainable through grinding the game. If you see any of that panic, you might as well go and buy that card for your team if it's an icon that you want because those prices are probably gonna shoot right back up. After that, as people realize, okay, these cards are not gonna be attainable for a while, I'm gonna go back and buy my item that I have that is in icon swap one. So that's the only panic I think you should see tomorrow. The only other thing that could cause panic around tomorrow would be a Player of the Month, SBC. And if they do release Player of the Month, it's kind of tough because they have Pookie that's already in here. He doesn't expire for six days yet, which is interesting because last year, the Lucas Mora SBC expired on this date, basically. That SBC was now for very long. They put this team of Pookie out for a very long time, but it seems like now would be the time where they would put in the Obama Yang or the Cowan Wilson. And if you wanna invest for those SBCs, invest in the normal things, Premier League, high rated players, maybe just stock some Arsenal players in your clubs. Well, get some other high-rateds off of foot bin, check the cheapest players by rating. If you really think that's coming, you could go out and get some of those cards. I'm not entirely sure. And to be honest, a lot of people probably shouldn't be doing. If it is a Obama Yang, that SBC is gonna cost upwards of 600, possibly 700,000 coins. And if you're sinking that much coinage into the game, you better have at least a couple million if you're gonna put all of that you're gonna put 600,000 coins into an untradable card and for whatever packs that you get back, I don't think that's gonna be the best value SBC at this point in the game. You're gonna be draining yourself of a lot of coins. Maybe you can work on it over time if it's not too expensive over the next month that that SBC would be available. But I honestly think that SBC is gonna be coming next week, we'll see what happens. It's like 50-50 in my mind. It could come today, tomorrow, it could also not. So I'm interested to see what happens with the Callum Wilson, the KDB, or Obama Yang. I think Obama Yang is the front runner for that. But that could be the only other thing that I really see causing any sort of panic today, basically Friday, on the market. So again, I think you're actually gonna see the market rise as we looked on footpin. I think you're actually gonna see the market continue to rise here. The index gold going up. People start playing their weekly games on Friday. I think you're gonna start to see that market rise up in the day. And into the night on Friday as well, as long as we don't get anything too crazy at 6 p.m. U.K. for the drop on Friday. Should be just a lot of information filled stuff, probably a chance that we'll be looking at our first couple icon objectives and some single player objective, or first owner objectives as well. So we'll be looking into that kind of stuff. And that could create some market movements. Maybe if you need to make a team with a nationality to complete some of the icon objectives, we'll look into some of that as well. But it seems like their goal with a lot of these objectives and the whole point of doing the icon stuff is to not cause market movements and actually disallow traders from making coins on the market or allow pinched areas as the foot economist who now works for EA would call him. So I don't think you have to be too worried about a market crash tomorrow. There shouldn't be much of a market crash if there is. That's honestly kind of disgraceful in terms of the FIFA community. I would expect the FIFA community as a whole to be smarter than that, especially because we don't have a loading screen for icon swaps or anything like that. A lot of casuals probably think it's a normal second week of FIFA, weekend league. I need to get my team and play games and stuff like that. So that's my thoughts for the market right now. Just a quick little market talk video for you guys. Should be a fun day on the market. We're watching out for the icons. Possible player of the month, SBCs. Yeah, stuff like that on the market. Hopefully a rising market as well. Good luck with your weekend league of games. Weekend league games, of course. And let me know how you're doing down in the comments down below in terms of Thursday flipping if it worked out for you or if you maybe lost a little bit on some cards that were hurt by that pack supply. If you enjoyed the video, smash the thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe to the channel if you are new. It's been Nate, the Foot Accountant. Catch you guys later. Peace out.