What's Next for TCG Marquee Before 2027
Two months of building got TCG Marquee onto LED boards, TVs, and show tables. Before the year is out I want to take the next step, and I want to tell you about it before I build it so you can tell me what you'd use first.
Here's the idea. A collection is a portfolio. Every card has a cost, a market price, and a story about what it's done since you bought it. And a card show floor already works like a trading floor: tables quoting prices, people buying and selling, deals moving all day. So the price side of TCG Marquee is going to look and work more like an investor's tool, on every screen it runs on.
Just the cards isn't going anywhere. My son still gets his binders on the TV with no prices at all. This is about the other side.
Your collection as a portfolio
- A portfolio page. Every card you hold as a position: how many copies, what you paid, what it's worth today, and the gain or loss in dollars and percent. Then how your collection splits up by game, set, and raw, graded, or sealed, and how much the whole thing moved today.
- Ticker symbols. Every card gets a short symbol from its set and number, so the ticker on your board reads like a market tape instead of a list of names.
- A monthly statement. An email at the start of each month with where your collection started and ended, your biggest movers, and what you sold. The first one is planned for January 1.
Every sale on the books
- Mark a card sold. Record the price, the date, and how many copies, from the card or right from show mode. TCG Marquee works out what you made against what you paid.
- A sales list and a tax file. Every sale in one place, and a spreadsheet with cost and how long you held each card, ready for whoever does your taxes.
- A trade check. Put both sides of a trade in, see what each side is worth and the difference, and save it when you shake on it.
The show table as a trading desk
Show mode already puts your asking price next to the market price. Next:
- A buying and selling board. Two columns on your table screen, what you'll pay and what you're asking, like the sign at a currency exchange. Set your buy price as a percent of market for a whole display, or card by card.
- A closing bell. At the end of a show day, one picture with what you sold, your total, and what you made, sized for Instagram, Stories, and the rest.
The market on your wall
- A public movers page. This week's biggest gainers and fallers across all six games, open to anyone, no account needed.
- A market pulse page. A TCG Marquee index for each game, how many cards went up versus down, and the top movers, on your board and your TV.
- A heat map for TVs. Your collection as blocks sized by value and colored by how far each one moved in 30 days.
New page types have to reach the Apple TV, Google TV, and Fire TV apps before the server sends them, so these will arrive together in one TV app update.
Easier to start, easier to show off
- Bring your collection over. Import presets for the spreadsheets other collection apps export, and PSA cert number lookup for slabs.
- A grade or sell calculator. Pick a card, see raw and graded prices against grading and selling fees, and where grading starts to pay.
- A collection report. A PDF of your collection's value by binder and set, for your records or your insurance.
- Share a binder. An opt-in link that shows one binder as a screen, for friends or a buyer.
What stays the same
- Honest numbers. Prices come from Scrydex and are daily market estimates, not live trades. I won't draw volume or candlesticks we don't have. The only trades on your charts will be the ones you record.
- Not financial advice. Cards are fun to track like stocks. They aren't stocks, and nothing here tells you what to buy or sell.
- Every display keeps its own settings, the way it works now.
Rough order
- November: the screen-first home page, the movers page, ticker symbols, the portfolio page, the sales list, and importers.
- Early December: the buying and selling board, the closing bell, the market pulse, the heat map, and the TV app update that carries them.
- Late December into January: the grade or sell calculator, the collection report, trade check, shared binders, and the first monthly statement.
That's the plan, not a promise. I'm one person building this around my day job, and things will move. I'll post each piece here as it ships.
Tell me what you'd use first
If you're a tester, send it through Feedback in the app or on Discord. If you're not one yet, there are free tester spots open. I'd rather build the thing you'd use tomorrow than the thing I think is cool.