Talk:Rare Long Spiked Collar/@comment-36936442-20181001194913/@comment-33552387-20181001204423

A little late but that'd be a fair trade, infact it'd be a bit over (blue long + blue short valued at 28 db, red long is worth 23-25 db).

The one problem with the trade is that ther are other, better trades you can get for a red long, so I'd keep your long for now, and instead trade it for two decent longs. Both decent longs are valued at 15-16 dbs. 15+15 = 30, so two decent longs would be over as well, and you'd get more out of it (let me explain how).

Let's say you trade your long for two decent longs, then trade those decent longs for 4 good shorts and 2 long wrists (total, not per long). Trade those collars for 8 db's each, and the wrists for 4 db's each. Now you have 40 db's.

Math (please feel free to correct me if I'm off aha):

8 (db) * 4 (collars)  = 32 (total of db from collars) + 8 (total db's from wrists) = 40 dbs

Now because you traded down from the red long, you have made a profit of 15-17 dbs.

I know I did say that the other trade would be over over as well though, so let's see how much profit you'd get from that.

Let's say you do trade your red long for the offer you mentioned. So a blue long is worth 2 bad longs (I'm also not going to count orange btw), and a blue short is worth 2 good long wrists. Trade your blue long for two green longs, and the blue short for two good long wrists. Trade the green longs for two good shorts and the two wrists for 8 db total. Now trade the two good shorts for 8 db's each and you end up with 24 den betas.

Math:

8 db (worth of collars) * 2 (# of collars) = 16 + 8 (total amount of db from wrists) = 24

Now here, you make almost no profit (only 1 db of profit if you traded 23 db for the red long), whereas the other trade you can make over 15 db of profit.

So my personal opinion is that, while the trade is fair, you can get better trades for your red long, so I'd keep it and trade it for two decent longs instead.

Hope this helped! :)

(sorry this is so long btw, I type wayy too much)

-psl