How to snipe

I was looking on YouTube for some videos on how to snipe but couldn’t find any good ones. Does anyone here have some tips for how to learn to snipe?

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efj115 said:

I was looking on YouTube for some videos on how to snipe but couldn’t find any good ones. Does anyone here have some tips for how to learn to snipe?

I'm sure there is a more advanced rub but I just filter down to the individual card,  some new release or whoever,  then refresh like a fiend. The companion app is usually the best bet. Ill hit a card here and there.

There is an anti-sniping filter mechanism that was applied last year in madden.  You are assigned a random arbitrary time (ranging from instantly to about 4 mins) to see a card that is posted.   So even if you know a card is posted you may not be able to see the card and buy it.  
IE "sniping" is dead as I imagine you are  using the context of your post from back in the day, where you sit on specific filters.

efj115 said:

I was looking on YouTube for some videos on how to snipe but couldn’t find any good ones. Does anyone here have some tips for how to learn to snipe?

I have build my team mostly with this method. You have to spend time on auction house and know values. This also requires coins to really benefit from it. I usually try to purchase players worth over 500.000 and sell them at least 10% profit.

My best snipes are cards worth 1-2,5mil like Team Diamonds and Zack Martin TB card. Made total +4mil profit only from those.
 

Look peek times to sell (Saturday) but purchases are more random (usually when only few players are playing)

Not sure if this helps.

I have stopped this since I like to play more.

Orkku said:

I have build my team mostly with this method. You have to spend time on auction house and know values. This also requires coins to really benefit from it. I usually try to purchase players worth over 500.000 and sell them at least 10% profit.

My best snipes are cards worth 1-2,5mil like Team Diamonds and Zack Martin TB card. Made total +4mil profit only from those.
 

Look peek times to sell (Saturday) but purchases are more random (usually when only few players are playing)

Not sure if this helps.

I have stopped this since I like to play more.

This is more like flipping which is still alive, but as you said pretty much is a full time job if you dont get lucky on some big ticket cards and already have a large stack.

It's too much to type out step by step every trick and angle of sniping, but it's basically a matter of filtering down specific cards to see all available and refreshing as fast as possible to see the newest cards posted as soon as possible and snag them. Try playing around with filters and refreshing and you should get it from there. Type in 80-81, then put core elite and you will see prices drop a bit, and then try specific positions and will see prices drop more. Lastly refresh by quickly resetting any filter your not using over and over. So this filter 80-81 for ovr./ core elite for program/ and then QB for pos./ use team filter or name search (whatever is more comfortable) and reset, repeat. 

If you play around with that a bit you should get it... hope this helps.

If it’s on YouTube you are already too late to use that filter

karmaklaw said:

There is an anti-sniping filter mechanism that was applied last year in madden.  You are assigned a random arbitrary time (ranging from instantly to about 4 mins) to see a card that is posted.   So even if you know a card is posted you may not be able to see the card and buy it.  
IE "sniping" is dead as I imagine you are  using the context of your post from back in the day, where you sit on specific filters.

Sniping is not dead at all. It used to be easier with less people doing it years ago, but still a great method for making or saving coins. Every set I've done this year and all training/program currency bought or players I've sniped and saved millions using this method.

PScrabro said:

Sniping is not dead at all. It used to be easier with less people doing it years ago, but still a great method for making or saving coins. Every set I've done this year and all training/program currency bought or players I've sniped and saved millions using this method.

"Snipe" as I know it was buying something for 250K instead of 2.5M when someone missed a 0 or the min bin price now since they have the dynamic  price floor and ceiling.   
Filtering down to position to save 10k on each set piece and paying 450K instead of 550k on a promo drop when ppl are rapidly undercutting themselves is still a thing but not a snipe.  But yes I do that as well, but wouldnt call that a snipe.

efj115 said:

I was looking on YouTube for some videos on how to snipe but couldn’t find any good ones. Does anyone here have some tips for how to learn to snipe?

It's all about filters.  Anyone can sit around and monitor auction house 24/7 (using Mobile Companion app) looking for an exceptionally low price to snipe the latest LTD or whatever -- but the real "skill gap" type stuff is just spending sufficient time in there to learn and get familiar with the markets, how prices ebb and flow during the week (there are very clear trends that repeat week after week, which can be used to earn, if not basically print coins).

There is no real magic trick.  THE moment anyone posts a profitable method, set, whatever online, tons of other people pursue that same angle, thereby making it (almost immediately) less profitable, which is the primary reason you won't hear much in the way of specifics, unless you have a tight group of friends sharing tradecraft secrets.

There are NUMEROUS ways to approach this, i'm sorry I cannot be more helpful here.  I'm a bit out of the loop, but there's some people who will sit around and "snipe" 70 OVR gold cards to build out playbook sets, then selling them at 3-4k a pop, for handsome profit.  But this is high volume, low margin.  If yer not trying to turn this bad game into a second job, you will need to get more creative.  Fortunately for you/us, there's so many methods which are profitable.

iJoebruin tends to run a lot of market focused content, i'd probably start with him on YouTube.  Gutfoxx used to be helpful, but he's basically just running his credit card (or getting MUT Points from his sketchy coin resellers/sponsors), so not much value remains with his Market Monday series, IMO.  I'm sure there are others, but when everyone else is going to zig, you want to zag.  The more unique the method, the better!  Hope that somewhat helps.

karmaklaw said:

"Snipe" as I know it was buying something for 250K instead of 2.5M when someone missed a 0 or the min bin price now since they have the dynamic  price floor and ceiling.   
Filtering down to position to save 10k on each set piece and paying 450K instead of 550k on a promo drop when ppl are rapidly undercutting themselves is still a thing but not a snipe.  But yes I do that as well, but wouldnt call that a snipe.

The way to snipe is to refresh like I explained... it's not just filtering down. You are not sniping a 2.5 for 250 unless you are using the method I explained above. Filters and refreshing is how EVERYBODY who snipes does it... exactly how I explained above.

peatrick said:

It's all about filters.  Anyone can sit around and monitor auction house 24/7 (using Mobile Companion app) looking for an exceptionally low price to snipe the latest LTD or whatever -- but the real "skill gap" type stuff is just spending sufficient time in there to learn and get familiar with the markets, how prices ebb and flow during the week (there are very clear trends that repeat week after week, which can be used to earn, if not basically print coins).

There is no real magic trick.  THE moment anyone posts a profitable method, set, whatever online, tons of other people pursue that same angle, thereby making it (almost immediately) less profitable, which is the primary reason you won't hear much in the way of specifics, unless you have a tight group of friends sharing tradecraft secrets.

There are NUMEROUS ways to approach this, i'm sorry I cannot be more helpful here.  I'm a bit out of the loop, but there's some people who will sit around and "snipe" 70 OVR gold cards to build out playbook sets, then selling them at 3-4k a pop, for handsome profit.  But this is high volume, low margin.  If yer not trying to turn this bad game into a second job, you will need to get more creative.  Fortunately for you/us, there's so many methods which are profitable.

iJoebruin tends to run a lot of market focused content, i'd probably start with him on YouTube.  Gutfoxx used to be helpful, but he's basically just running his credit card (or getting MUT Points from his sketchy coin resellers/sponsors), so not much value remains with his Market Monday series, IMO.  I'm sure there are others, but when everyone else is going to zig, you want to zag.  The more unique the method, the better!  Hope that somewhat helps.

Great post as usual. You put more effort into  being helpful than most. Thanks for that. If anyone gos through your posts from the past they will find a lot of good info. But how do you explain the process of MUT Market familiarization in a way that makes sense and can be replicated by others? I took a crack at a detailed post about it once and became frustrated with the process. Your comment about zigging and zagging reminded me of this little gem too.

Float like a bee! Sting like a butterfly! When they’re bobbin’ you’re weavin’. Be the circular projectile hurled towards the batter. Don’t go against the grain or with it. Trend in a parallel fashion. What would Warren Buffett Do? WWWBD? Be the trash panda of the investment world!

PScrabro said:

The way to snipe is to refresh like I explained... it's not just filtering down. You are not sniping a 2.5 for 250 unless you are using the method I explained above. Filters and refreshing is how EVERYBODY who snipes does it... exactly how I explained above.

Correct the method you listed above is the optimal way to buy cards on the market which is what OP at the end of the day wanted.  I don't think we are arguing about HOW it is done.  It is clear the method of filtering so you see under 100 cards at any given time gives you the best price.   I think we are disagreed on the definition of "snipe" which is the major blunders when listing a card, which was my rationale for saying it is "dead" (a little bit of hyperbole), because you used to just sit on a filter and as long as you were the first to get there you got the card, but with the delay in seeing cards it makes it harder.   Im sure you see the delay even when buying set pieces, you see something cheap in your range on mutgg and you cant get it.   If you do not agree with my definition of "snipe", and think all cards bought by filtering is sniping than that is fine.   I can see your reasoning but just disagree.