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The Cards table on your dashboard has a Source column that shows the effective price source Hoard used for each row. Open a row and you can compare every available source side by side. This page covers what the column shows, how to sort by it, what the amber star means, and how the Source Value stat at the top of the table relates to it. For the underlying mechanic — picking a price source, the fallback chain, PriceCharting grade override — see Repricing.

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What the column shows

Each row in the Cards table shows a single source as its effective price source. The label on the column is whichever of these applied for that row:
  • Market — TCGplayer Market Price (tcg_market_price)
  • Low — TCGplayer Low (tcg_low_price)
  • Low + Ship — TCGplayer Low + Shipping (tcg_low_price_with_shipping)
  • Direct Low — TCGplayer Direct Low (tcg_direct_low)
  • PriceCharting — PriceCharting condition-mapped grade price for Pokemon
The price shown next to the label is the dollar value Hoard’s formula uses as the base for that card. Cards with no value at the selected source (a $0 Direct Low, for example) show a dash and silently fall back to TCGplayer Market when Hoard calculates the target.

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Expanding a row

Click the row to expand a small panel showing every source side by side. The active source is highlighted; the others show their values for comparison. This is the fastest way to answer “what would my target be if I switched sources?” without going back to Settings and previewing.

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How the effective source is chosen

Three things decide which source a row shows:
  1. A matching pricing rule’s source — if a pricing rule matches the card and that rule has its own price source set, the rule wins.
  2. Your global price source — if no rule overrides it, the row uses whatever you picked in Settings → Pricing.
  3. PriceCharting override — if PriceCharting is enabled and has grade data for the card, the row shows PriceCharting regardless of the source above, and an amber * appears next to the label.
The same precedence drives Hoard’s actual pricing formula, so the Source column always reflects what the pricing engine used.

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The amber * override

When PriceCharting is on globally and has data for a Pokemon card, it overrides whichever source you picked. The Source column shows that with an amber * next to the source label. Hover the * to see which source it’s overriding — for example, “PriceCharting (overrides your Direct Low selection)”. If you want the override to stop, toggle PriceCharting grade pricing off in Settings → Pricing, or set PriceCharting as your explicit price source so there’s nothing to override.

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Sorting by source

The Source column header is sortable. Clicking it sorts the table by the column behind your global price source, falling back to Market for rows where that column is $0. So:
  • If your global source is Direct Low, sorting by Source orders the table by Direct Low.
  • If your global source is Low + Shipping, sorting by Source orders the table by that column.
  • If your global source is PriceCharting, sorting falls back to Market because PriceCharting prices aren’t a single SQL column.
This is different from sorting by the per-row effective source, which would mix scales (a card priced off PriceCharting at 50isn′tdirectlycomparabletoonepricedoffDirectLowat50 isn't directly comparable to one priced off Direct Low at 50 for sort purposes).

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Source Value vs Vs Source

The stat bar at the top of the Cards table includes two source-aware numbers:
  • Source Value — sum of every visible card’s source price × quantity, using your global price source. Cards with a $0 value at that source fall back to TCGplayer Market in the aggregate.
  • Vs Source — the difference between your listed value and Source Value. Positive means your listings are above the basis; negative means below.
These replaced the old “Market Value” and “Spread” stats so the summary reflects whatever source you actually picked. The aggregate uses a single SQL query and does not factor in per-rule overrides or PriceCharting evidence — those still surface accurately on individual rows.

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Per-rule overrides

If a pricing rule overrides the global source for a group of cards, every row matched by that rule shows the rule’s source, not your global setting. So a rule that pins Bulk Rares to Low will show “Low” in the Source column for all bulk rares, while everything else shows your global source. If you’re not sure which rule a row matched, the pricing breakdown in the card detail panel names the rule and its source explicitly. See Per-rule price source for setup.

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Mobile

On phone widths, the Source column collapses to a narrower label-plus-value summary, and the expand-to-compare panel takes the full width below the row when you tap it. The Profit column stays visible alongside Source, so you still see whether each row earns money at a glance.
  • Repricing — the full price source mechanic, including the fallback chain and PriceCharting grade pricing.
  • Competitive position — uses the same source you picked here to bucket your inventory.
  • Pricing rules — how to override the global source for a group of cards.