FUT 15 Trading Guide #5: The Enhancement Method

When you sell a player, you should reflect on the price the features that your card has. The better they are, the more expensive they will be.

The enhancement method consists on buying normal cards and value them mostly by applying training and development cards. You can also try to find players with chemistry styles, contracts, position cards or any other consumable that makes them more valuable for the regular price. Do it and sell them for the price that they should be being sold.

The first thing to do in the Enhancement Method is to identify players whose improved cards may have more demand in FIFA 15 Ultimate Team. After you buy the "normal" card, improve it through at least one of the following methods:

> increase the contracts by applying contract cards;

> increase the fitness by applying fitness cards;

> natural fitness increase by placing the player on your bench or in your reserves

> modification of the player's favourite position by applying training position cards;

> temporary modification of at least one of the player's attributes by applying training cards;

> modification of the player's chemistry style by applying chemistry styles cards;

> modification of the manager's league by applying manager's league cards (in this case, only for managers);

To have profit, the cost of the improvements should be at least 5% below the price rise that you set to that card.

One of the most important ideas in optimization of this method has to do with the choice of cards that you will improve.

The enhancement method works much better when done with cards whose initial price is high. It is easy to imagine why. Who buys a player for 300k FIFA 15 coins will not be too worried about spending an extra 1k coins to get a contract bonus. Who buys a player for 1k coins will not double the cost just to get this improvement. Improve always expensive players if you want to really make money with this method. But optimization does not end here.

> Fitness

The fitness improvement of the players is the one that has less economic expression in FIFA 15 Ultimate Team. Although it is easy to make, and in some cases even free, we do not recommend that you spend too much time with it.

> Attributes

If you get cheap training cards you can try to improve the attributes of the players before putting them on sale.

However, since this effect lasts only a match, most of people are not willing to pay more for this type of player that has an improved card.

The major target of this kind of card are the misinformed players who think that the effect lasts forever.

> Manager's Leagues

In FUT 15, there is one extra individual chemistry point to the player that has the same nationality of the manager or play in the same league. To build a hybrid squad, for example, you will need a manager with the right league and right nationality. Try to buy the cards of the most popular leagues, as BPL or BBVA, and apply them to the managers with the most popular nationalities.

> Contracts

The managers are responsible for the optimization that you can make with regards to contracts.

If you have enough managers in your club for a contract boost of 50%, it means that your cost to improve the players cards may be lower than the cost that buyers have. If it happens, you can easily sell players for a higher price since both sides are profiting.

>  Chemistry Styles

Try to buy the chemistry styles cards that have the higher pace improvement (3 points), such as shadow or hunter, at low price, apply them to players and sell them to anyone looking to optimize their chemistry.

>  Position

This is probably the improvement that is most profitable with this method.

Firstly, because there are many people who do not know how to change the preferred position of a player. The ones that know how to do it, not always have the patience to find the right cards at an auction with a filter system very inefficient.

To optimize this method you should choose whether to be original or not.

In the first case, the differentiation can bring you a lot of coins. Imagine how many James Rodriguez ST there are. Few or none. If you have the only one in the transfer list, it means that you have no competition and so you can set the price you want.

If you do not want to be so original, you can focus on the most frequently used positions. Try to find good players that are released in packs in undesirable positions. Applying a CF-ST card to Rooney or a LW-LM card to Hazard can be a added value for most of FIFA 15 Ultimate Team players.

The enhancement method can give you some significant profit but requires, in addition to some work, that you master it well.

To achieve good profits, you should have a comfortable budget and you should study the market very well to know what they are willing to offer for each of the improvements.