Swimming Naked: Early Warning Signs in the 2026 Card Market

The sports card market is up big. Disney is up 5x in six months. Pokemon volume is at all time highs. So the question everyone is asking: how much longer? Let's talk dry powder. The rotation from modern into vintage. The speculative tells in sealed wax, breaks, and repackers. And the biggest structural throttle on the hobby right now: PSA and Beckett cutting their lower grading tiers, which pushed the raw to grade play from $100 cards up to $250 cards and squeezed collectors...