Market Intelligence

Diamond Radar: price predictions & buy signals

Most of DiamondOps tells you what the market is doing now. Diamond Radar looks ahead: it models where a card’s price is likely heading and turns that into a buy or sell signal. This guide explains what the predictions mean and how to use them well.

Diamond Radar projecting roster-update tier jumps, predicted overall, and post-upgrade profit
Diamond Radar projects which cards jump at the next roster update, with profit and probability.

What Diamond Radar does

Diamond Radar studies a card’s price history — the same hourly data that powers the rest of the platform — and projects a predicted price along with a directional buy signal. Instead of you eyeballing a chart and guessing, the model summarizes the trend, the momentum, and the recent range into a single forward-looking read. It’s the difference between “this card has been going up” and “this card is likely to be worth more soon, so today’s price is a buy.”

Reading the signals

  • Predicted price — the model’s estimate of where the card is heading. Compare it to the current buy-now to see implied upside or downside.
  • Buy signal — a condensed call (e.g. a strong buy versus a hold) derived from the trend and how the current price sits against recent history.
  • Signal history — past signals over time, so you can see whether the model has been reading this particular card well lately.

A prediction is a probability, not a promise. The model is at its best on liquid cards with a clean history and least reliable around chaotic events — a surprise roster update or a brand-new release with no track record.

Using Radar without over-trusting it

Treat Radar as one strong opinion in a room of signals, not the only voice. The reliable workflow is to let Radar nominate candidates, then sanity-check each one:

  • Is the move real? Check bot-risk before trusting a bullish signal on a thin card.
  • Is there profit in it after tax? Take the idea to the flips page.
  • Does the card actually play well at your difficulty? Confirm with OpScore rankings if you intend to use it, not just trade it.

What’s free, and what Pro adds

Diamond Radar is free on Common and Bronze cards — specifically, cards that are Common or Bronze today and that the model expects to stay there — with every prediction column unlocked: predicted overall, tier jump, downgrade risk, net outlook, upgrade probability, Value Gap and the rolling stats behind the call. Signed in, the live-market pair — Buy Now and Est. Profit — is unlocked on those rows too; guests are the only ones who see a lock there. The reason the free slice is generous is that it’s the honest way to show the model working, on cards nobody is investing in.

Signed in, that slice is complete. The board loads every Common and Bronze card at once, so search, filters and sorting run across all of them rather than the page in front of you — if a card is in the free slice, you can find it. Signed out you get a preview page instead, which is why the count above the table is smaller until you sign in. A free account is enough; this is not a Pro feature.

Pro adds the rarities where money actually moves — Silver, Gold, Diamond and Red Diamond, including any lower-rated card the model expects to break out into them — plus real-time rather than nightly scoring, a Value Gap priced off the live market rather than last night’s snapshot, the game-by-game drill-down, watchlist price alerts, and best-time-to-buy and best-time-to-sell windows. See the pricing page for the full breakdown.

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