About Vintage Chase Tracker
A free, Bloomberg-style terminal for the vintage Pokémon card market — free membership, no paywall, no affiliate pricing.
Vintage Chase Tracker (VCT) tracks 495 chase cards across every Wizards of the Coast set (1999–2003), all 27 Gold Star cards (2004–2007), the Poncho Pikachu promos and the sealed booster boxes, and turns them into price indexes the way an equity index provider would: fixed weights, a published base, documented constituents, an audit log.
The one rule
Every price is a documented sale or a live listing that has been opened and read. Marks come from eBay sold listings (via PriceCharting), Card Ladder last sales and auction-house results (Fanatics Collect, Heritage, Goldin). Live asks and bids are re-verified on their own pages every eight hours; a listing whose title does not name the card, grade and edition is dropped. When a number cannot be traced to a dated sale it is shown as "—" rather than estimated. The data log records what changed on every run.
What is on the desk
Four headline indexes (.AGG, .VPI, .GLDSTR, .PONCHO) and 60+ derived indexes; a page for every Gold Star, every WotC set and every booster box; per-card order books by grade with PSA populations; a spread screener of live asks against last sales; a fair-value desk; compare mode; an inventory tracker; and a weekly market report. A morning note by email summarises each day's refresh — subscribe on the home page.
Who
Built and run by an independent collector who spent about a decade in investment banking, as a hobby project — the index construction, drawdown and volatility analytics are the ones used on a trading desk, applied to cardboard. It is not affiliated with Nintendo, The Pokémon Company, PSA, PriceCharting, Card Ladder, eBay or any auction house, and it does not sell cards or take referral fees. Entertainment and research only — nothing here is investment advice.
Contact
Corrections, missing sales and source suggestions: submit a sale from any card view on the desk (verified sales are credited in the data log), or email desk@vintagechasetracker.com.
Cite this pageVintage Chase Tracker, “Built by a Former Investment Banker”, vintagechasetracker.com/about/, data as of 3 Nov 2026. Free to quote with a link; documented PSA sales, not advice.