Every filter can buy in two ways. A snipe takes auctions with a buy-now under the threshold the instant they appear. Bids target expiring auctions with a maximum bid, like a person following the market would.
Buy now (snipe)
- At every search the Trader takes the cheapest first, the most recent on a tie; the purchase starts right after EA answers, the resale after.
- In the Market the reference is almost always the lowest buy-now: bargains are rare and last seconds. Too slow a rhythm misses them, too fast a one exposes you to risk.
- In percentage modes the reference price refreshes every few minutes; for cards without a reference (consumables, club items) the EA Min BIN verified less than 10 minutes ago applies.
Bid
- 1At the top of the Strategy choose 🔨 Bid: the price strategy now defines the maximum bid.
- 2Set within how many minutes the auctions must expire and whether to rebid when outbid.
- 3Choose how many result pages to check per round (expiring auctions sit after the first) and the fixed pause between pages.
- 4The Trader places at most one bid per search and counts open bids in the spending limit; rebids on the same auction do not count as new bids.
Won auctions
When an auction expires the Trader reads the Watched list: if you won it, it lists the card according to the filter’s strategy. The Bids box in the dashboard is clickable and opens the open-bids panel: for each one your bid, its state (leading / outbid / checking outcome), time to expiry, planned resale and expected net, plus placed / won / lost.
The blue chip: bid, do not buy
In Market results, if the buy-now is expensive but the next required bid sits at least 10% under the reference (adjustable), the chip turns blue: better to bid. It applies to Transfer Targets too: on your active bids your own bid counts.
Price protections
- To buy, the Trader uses the EA Min BIN recomputed every 2 minutes while the filter runs; a jump over 35% against a recent price is flagged suspicious and rechecked.
- The resale used in decisions is the median of the measures of the last 15 minutes: one isolated measure does not move it; if the market really falls it reacts at once.
- Hard floor: when many auctions sit at the minimum and none below, the Trader buys at the floor only if the resale leaves a positive net, otherwise it warns the filter will not buy.
- An EA minimum read from the card is certain: if the filter price is below it, the Trader skips the round and says so in the log.