FIFA 15 Ultimate Team: Coin Making Methods & Trading Tips

FIFA 15  Ultimate Team Coins
Trading Tips and Coin Methods to Make a Money Squad

I've been playing UT for years, and I've always managed to create squads worth hundreds of thousands, to even over a million coins all through trading. I treat my team as a business; reduce all possible expenses, and make as many coins as you can per game and per trade. I’m going to teach you some of the most effective tips to building a successful club that I've picked up on over the last few years of FIFA Ultimate Team.

The first thing I picked up on is there is no secret way to get quick rich. If that’s what you’re looking for, you’re going to have to just buy your coins. Making coins through trading takes a LOT of patience, hard work and time. If that doesn’t sound like you, just check out MMOGA, the only site I’d trust for UT coins.

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Getting Started

There are two things you should be aware of before you start trading. First, the EA Sports FIFA 15 Web App is much easier to quickly trade on than on the console. Also, use FUThead to look up player stats and prices, and learn what’s happening in the game.

First stop: Catalogue

Before you even play any games you should check out what’s available to you in the catalogue, as there’s plenty of things in here that’ll allow you to save coins, as well as make more coins every game you play.

Coin boosts – the most obvious one. You can get up to 1000 extra coins every match you play. Especially when you’re just starting out, this is HUGE.  Buy every boost you can.

Transfer size – very important for trading. You can increase the amount of trades you can have up from 30 to a whopping 80.

Watch list size – important when you do trading techniques like mass-bidding.

99 Match Card – save for an important player you plan to keep in your club for a long time.

Players – this’ll save on contracts and of course, you get a great player to use for a few games.

Making a Team, or Two

I’m not going to go into which players should be on your team in this guide, but I’d recommend sticking to one league or nationality for chemistry reasons. Just remember that Brazilian players and the English league are quite expensive.

Then, make a substitute squad. This will be your cheap squad which you can switch out your players for every three or four matches when your main squad becomes tired. You can make a good non-rare gold squad for only a few thousand coins. Or you could buy fitness cards. Every 3 games you’d need to spend 200 coins on a card for all 11 of your players.. wait that’s over 2000 coins every 3 games!? I don’t know about you, but I’d rather keep these coins in my account.

My UT fitness squad - very good and only cost me about 15,000 coins
Everyone on the bench will be good to play next game

Buying Players

Know the price to pay: Too many people just search for that player name then get into bidding wars. These wars can go up to thousands more than what someone could just buy-it-now for. When you are looking up a player, ALWAYS use the ‘buy-it-now’ maximum price to find the lowest priced cards on the market. Once you find this value, delete it and enter it into the maximum bid price. Watch the auctions, and see what price they usually are bid up to.

Winning auctions: Once you know the lowest price you could buy-it-now for, and how many coins auctions usually go for, there are a few things you can do.  If there isn’t much of a difference, you can simply buy the lowest buy-it-now auction.  You could try to win an auction for as low as possible. Or you could enter the lowest buy-it-now price, then go one lower. When you go to search, it should tell you that there are no auctions in your criteria. Press OK and keep trying. If it’s a popular player, you should be able to find new auctions being listed. Occasionally someone will list a player at a very low price, but you need to be quick, these cards only take seconds until someone buys them.

More buying tips:

• When you buy a player, keep in mind its fitness and contracts. If you’re buying a 300 coin player, you might notice he only has 1 contract left. Keep looking, maybe you’ll find a player with 20+ contracts for 350 coins; definitely a better buy.
• if you find an in-form that you want to buy, try to buy it on the last day that it is out in packs (Tuesday night or Wednesday morning). This is when most people will be selling these cards and they will be at their cheapest price. Sell in 2-3 weeks for the most profit on your investment
• My favourite auctions to bid on are ones which no one else has yet bid on. Avoid unnecessary bidding wars with other people, even if that means bidding up the price yourself.
• Buy when the market is busiest, as more cards on the market mean prices will be lower.
• Keep in mind what online tournaments are going on. If a BBVA tournament just started, all Spanish league players will be very costly, especially the best ones. When this tournament ends, everyone will sell these cards, bringing the prices temporarily lower than usual.

**Extra Buying Tip! How to filter the search to ONLY find in-forms!**
A new trick has been discovered which most people still don't know, which you can definitely use to your advantage. There's actually a cool trick where you can search the market for only a player's in-form cards; this'll definitely help when buying so you can quickly find the cheapest cards on the market. Here's how you do it:
Go to Squads -> Concept Squads
Add the player to your squad or bench, searching for concept players.
I want to buy in-form Rondon, so I searched his name then chose his 81 rated card (not the 80 rated)
Click on this player then choose 'Scout on Transfer Market'
You'll get a list of all this player's in-form cards
You can then click 'Back to Search Filters' and modify your search, to find the cheapest cards on the market

This works on the web app and on Ultimate Team on the console.
A good way to make a lot of coins with this is to quickly snatch up the cheapest in-forms as soon as they are listed on the market and re-list them, but make sure you pay attention to the 5% EA tax.

The Art of Selling

Selling cards is something that needs to have some thought put towards, as it is where most of the coins your squad is making will be coming from.  It’s a little difficult to sell your cards much higher than what the market price is these days due to how much you can narrow your searches to. But there are always the impatient buyers who don’t do their research, which surely aren’t us anymore, right?

Let’s say I have a card that I’m looking to sell. I watched a few auctions and saw them end at 2200, 2100, 2300, 2600 and 2200. I saw the lowest BIN price is 2400. Again, there are a few things we could do. If you need the coins quickly you could simply set your player with a BIN of 2400. Although there are a few ways to try to get more coins for every player you sell.

You could simply list this player higher, but not too much higher, hoping it would sell. In this scenario I would set the starting price at 2700, then add a buy it now of 2900. If it sells for 2700 I’d be happy that it sold a little more than the average price. But more often than not, someone will see that they could get it right away for only 200 coins more, and they will just buy it right away. I just got 2900 coins for a player worth 2400 coins. That’s not going to buy you a Messi, but you did get 20% more than you normally would have. If you keep this up throughout all your trades, you’ll see your coin pile building up very quickly.

There’s a second selling method I sometimes use. It can be a little riskier, but it often pays off. It involves starting a player at a very low price to get a lot of early bidders, and hope they have a bidding war in the last few minutes of the auction. In this scenario, I’d start the bidding at 150 and hope people bid on it up to the high 2000’s. I’d also add a BIN of about 3200, hoping that one of the people in the bid war would just pay the extra few hundred coins. There’s a risk that I’d only get 2000 or so coins from this auction, but more often than not if you put a smart BIN price you’ll make a lot more coins than you should.

More selling tips:

• Always remember the ‘EA Tax’ of 5% on everything you sell. This means if you sell a player for 1000 coins, you’ll only get 950.
• There’s no harm in trying to sell something for a little more and relisting your auctions throughout the day.
• Use 9’s, not 0’s. Psychology in business tells us that people are much more willing to spend 2900, instead of 3000.
• Sell when there aren't many auctions in the market. And if you’re going to sleep, list your auctions for 6/12 hours.

Coin-Making Methods

Bronze Packs:

Most people have heard of this and dismiss it right away, but I’d recommend everyone trying this. It’s great whenever you need to fill up your trade pile, or are low on coins and still wanting to make a profit.

On average you’ll make a few hundred coins from every pack with very little effort. But the best part is you’re able to collect consumables and managers for your club at the same time.

Here’s how it works. Buy a normal bronze pack for 400 coins. Keep any managers in your club, or list them if you already own them. List contracts at 150/200, and fitness cards at 200/250. Look out for high rated bronze players, good Brazilian/English players, fast players, and even healing cards sell for a lot this year. Every once in a while you’ll get a rare fitness card which can be sold for 1000+ coins. I even found an in-form once.

An average pack - fitness and rare contract selling for 200/250, two contracts selling for 150/200.
There's an easy 400 coin profit!

Position Change:

Very good method when you have a few thousand coins to invest.  First, find a moderately priced player who is a LM, who would be commonly bought as a LW. Or vice versa. Or CM to CAM. Or CF to ST. Or RB to RWB. There are tonnes of them out there. Every once in a while you’ll find one you can make some good profit on. Check the lowest BIN price of the player in one position, and then check the BIN price of the other position. Find what the difference is, and if it’s more than the price of the position swap card you can make some coins on this.

Some of the players I found the most success with were uncommon CF’s or RW’s which had very few RF’s on the market. When there are only a couple of those players on the market, you can charge a very high price for your player.

Discard Method:

You certainly won't make millions here, but it’s good if you need a few hundred coins quickly. It involves buying a player at a lower price than it can be quick-sold for. Here’s all the players you can profit on:

Rare silvers: discard at 228 coins for 65 rated players. At 72 they go for 252, and at 74 they sell for 259 coins.

In-form silvers: between 4550 and 5180 coins for 65 to 74 rated players.

Non-rare gold: 75 goes for 300 coins, anything higher than this can be quick sold for a profit.

Rare gold: 75 rated quick sell for 600 coins, anything rated higher than this can be bought and sold for a profit.

In-form gold: Start at 9150 coins for 75 rated

Buy Low, Sell High

This is simply buying items, then immediately selling them for more coins. Just keep in mind the 5% you lose on every sale. Here’s a few ways to do this:

Mass Bidding:

This involves bidding on every auction under a certain price, and hoping you win a few of them. I’m going to use gold contracts as an example since they’re commonly used.  Let’s say gold rare contracts are selling for 600 coins, and you want at least a 100 coin profit every sale. You’d set the maximum price to 500, then bid 500 on every transaction you can. Maybe you’ll win 5 of them, which can all be listed for 600/650. That’s almost 1000 free coins!

I just bid 150 coins on a bunch of gold managers, to re-sell at 300.

59 Minute Method:

This is when you go through pages and pages of auctions until you get to the point when you can find the newest listed auctions, buying anything you could make a profit on. If you’re still looking at gold contracts, you could set the max BIN at 450, and quickly buy every auction that is listed. Make sure you’re quick though, you won’t be the only one doing this.

Another way of doing this is to look for players, especially in popular leagues such as the EPL. Every once in a while someone will screw up and list a Rooney for only 20,000 coins. If you’re fast, you could be the lucky one to buy him. Check every player though; you’ll often find players which you can make an easy profit buying and selling.

Price Fixing:

This can require a lot of coins to start with, and it can be risky, but it can be very rewarding.  Find an uncommon player with not too many auctions on the market. Buy all of the players under a certain BIN price, and try to win any auctions which are going for under your set price. Re-list them all at the new price you set.

Investing:

This can be difficult, but there’s definitely profit to be made. The price of cards decline in value over the FIFA year, but there are some fairly predictable rises and crashes that happen throughout the year. 

Pre-release – everything is undervalued. Buy cards now, don’t sell anything that people will want to buy in a couple weeks when they have more coins

Two weeks to a month after release – this is when everyone has the coins for good players, and prices are at their peak for the full year. Sell your players now. I sell my full squad now, and use a cheap team until prices settle

Christmas – players getting the game for Christmas will flood the market with their starter gold packs, so certain items like consumables will be cheap. Again, two weeks to a month after this, they’ll be a spike in players wanting good players and needing consumables to keep their squad going.

TOTY – when team of the year is announced, many high rated players crash in value. Certain ones which link to the TOTY players may rise.

There are other spikes and dips, but I am not certain when they all are. If you know, please comment below. Just make sure you buy when prices are cheap, and sell when they’re high.

Happy Hour:

Happy hour has always been my favourite time to make a lot of coins in FIFA. If you don’t know, it’s when EA releases special gold packs, and the chance of getting an in-form is doubled. This means everyone is buying packs, and everything is cheap. I’m not going to outline exactly what you should buy, but spend as many coins as you can at this time, and then sell them for much more in a couple days.

Final UT Tips

Real Life Performance

If you follow football you may be in luck. The real life performance of players can have a fairly significant effect on the price of the player in-game. I remember a game last year where a player from the EPL scored a hattrick. By the time he scored his third goal, the price of this player was more than doubled. When a player receives an in-form, the price of his normal card also goes up in value.

Managers + Rare Contracts

Managers are very important to keep in your club as they’ll reduce how much you’ll be spending on contracts. Try to get a 50% boost, and only buy rare contracts. From a rare gold contract I’ll get a whopping 42 games. And I know how to buy so I’ll maybe only spend 300 coins on this. Compare this with someone who will spend the same amount of coins on a non-rare contract for only 13 games. They’re spending over three times as much as me to keep their players going.

DON’T Buy Packs

At least, not with coins. The odds of you actually profiting are very small. If you have the money, you can buy some FIFA points. This may be worthwhile doing at the start of the year when everything is worth a lot, to give you a good boost starting out. I spent $15 on points this year and got only about 40,000 coins from this. The even better alternative is to just buy the coins, it'll save you money.  The biggest and most trusted site out there is MMOGA; you’ll get your coins in a matter of minutes. Check out their site here:

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