This is just my personal experience and understanding, i thought it could be neat to have a discussion about trading methods/strategies that people have found worked/dont work .ect? Ones we don't agree with .ect. This also is pretty blunt and feeling free in nature, and is just honest about how i have found is how people maximize their accounts.
Talking C$ and tokens:
I will say off the bat, I don't really like how C$ has impacted the site and its 'economy'. The value of the C$ has a 'strict' written value. But no one adheres to it, especially with list pets, tokens .ect (If you buy 4 tokens for 4C$ each to get a event pet, you just spent 16C$ on getting that pet likely will cap in value at 5-8C$).
I consider events to be victims of 'Flipping'. Where users will purchase a large amount of tokens cheaply, then flip them for up to 4x the price. While its not against the rules, so no room to complain, it does feel like a more underhanded way of playing? (personally)
In saying that, I am not here to moral grandstand. If you want to make alot of C$, you want to do the following:
Flip tokens (Buy for 1C$ sell for 3-4C$)
Gather bulk low rarity pets and flip them for C$, you can 'trade down' low demand/value lists to do this quickly and to build up fodder. Since the MA C$ Values do not align with the C$ Values for nons, you can sell MA pets for 350-600 C$ depending on date/popularity, meaning you only need to sell 50% of a non to get the C$ value of 1 non
Use you'r C$ to buy bulk store pets, then once they leave the shop, flip them for a higher price than you paid.
Regarding Trading Pets:
Make good investments; This means avoiding low demand pets, such as early food pets, rats, spiders, most butterfly wolves, most horses/ponies, 'noncoon/jewel/swirls' GWJ .ect.
As much as I resent how these pets aren't benefiting from a demand suited to their scarcity and rarity, maximizing your account in my experience means avoiding trading for these pets unless you are getting something notably better in return. These pets will likely just sit on your account for a very long time, and can usually only be gotten rid of as 'filler' in larger trades. Sometimes all it takes is accepting 1 pet with poor demand but a high base value to nuke your momentum
If you manage to land a new food UR on dec 18th, you want to trade it as soon as possible, while demand is peak. For example, last dec 18 i pulled a UR Bread, i recieved a offer valued at 3 nons, i instantly accepted, a week or two later the value dropped, until now where it is worth 1.5 Nons.
Storepets: This is a more 'recent' phenomena, increasing the last few years. Storepets are the highest demand pets on the site, and the only ones that never lose value/demand. You will often find alot of people only trade certain pets for storepets. Building up a supply of storepets creates a stable value for your account, and allows more flexibility with trading.
TBA (if anyone has anything to add or wants to discuss i'd love to chat, i'm not saying i condone all these practices, but it seems to be the only way to achieve success nowadays, and with the introduction of C$ there has been a 'industrialization' of sorts)
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i don’t do a lot of high value trading so it’s been tough to build up
