Is vintage Pokémon a good investment?
As of 3 Nov 2026: the vintage Pokémon market index (.AGG) reads 5,021.7, +164.3% over twelve months, +423.6% above its Apr 2024 low and 3.3× its Feb 2021 peak. That is the record of 140,668 documented PSA sales, not a forecast. This month 38 of the 158 vintage cards with a documented sale are up on the month and 102 are down; 41 sit at an all-time high and 0 at a twelve-month low. The market is thin — a PSA 10 with a population of forty may not trade for months, and the last sale is the price — and it fell 37.9% from its Feb 2021 peak to its Apr 2024 low before this run. Not investment advice: this is a record of what sold, dated, not a view on what will.
The five indexes
| Index | Level | 1 month | 3 months | 12 months | Since Oct 2022 | Max drawdown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| .AGG the whole vintage market | 5,021.7 | -13.1% | +22.4% | +164.3% | +402.2% | -37.9% |
| .VPI the fifteen WotC sets | 4,115.4 | -14.9% | +28.5% | +144.0% | +311.5% | -46.5% |
| .GLDSTR the 27 Gold Stars | 7,729.3 | -13.4% | +27.2% | +277.6% | +672.9% | -37.7% |
| .PONCHO the Poncho Pikachus | 4,134.4 | -3.5% | -6.2% | +64.7% | +313.4% | -27.8% |
| .JPN the Japanese chases | 4,466.4 | -4.2% | +10.4% | +162.9% | +346.6% | -60.9% |
What the record says — and what it cannot
The index peaked in Feb 2021, fell 37.9% to Apr 2024, and has since risen +423.6%. Breadth matters more than the headline: a market where 38 cards rise and 102 fall is a different thing from three Charizards. Concentration matters the other way: 32% of the PSA 10 value added since March sits in eight cards. The gem premium — what a PSA 10 clears over a PSA 9 — is 9.9× across 189 cards this month, so the grade is most of the price. None of this says what happens next. It says what sold, when, and for how much, with the receipt.
How these numbers are marked
Every price is a documented PSA sale — an eBay item with its cert number, a Card Ladder entry, or an auction-house lot with its page — never an asking price or an estimate. A card's PSA 10 mark is its last documented sale, averaged with any sales of the week before it (rule R1). A print that sits more than three times away from the card's own recent trading, or across a neighbouring grade's level, is held until a second sale agrees with it. Each index is a fixed-weight basket of those marks, rebased to 1,000. The receipt behind every mark is on its card page. The monthly path of every index and card is on the index pages; every sale behind a mark is on the market report and the card pages.
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Is vintage Pokémon a good investment?
The documented record as of 3 Nov 2026: the vintage market index is +164.3% over twelve months and +423.6% above its Apr 2024 low, after a 37.9% drawdown from the Feb 2021 peak. It is a thin market priced by the last documented sale; this page is a record, not advice.
What is the vintage Pokémon market index?
.AGG — 60% the fifteen Wizards of the Coast set legs (.VPI), 25% the Gold Stars (.GLDSTR), 15% the Poncho Pikachus (.PONCHO), rebased to 1,000, built from documented PSA 10 sales.
How much of the market is rising?
38 of the 158 cards with a documented sale this month are up on the month (PSA 9 monthly medians), 41 at all-time highs, 0 at a twelve-month low.
Cite this pageVintage Chase Tracker, “Is Vintage Pokémon a Good Investment? The Record as of November 2026 — Index +164.3% on the Year, From 140,668 Documented Sales”, vintagechasetracker.com/market/is-vintage-pokemon-a-good-investment/, data as of 3 Nov 2026. Free to quote with a link; documented PSA sales, not advice.