I have been playing Fifa Ultimate Team since its creation in 2009 and have had varied success. In 2009 I spend a fair amount of money trying to get the best team I could from packs. This method had little success as I relied mainly on luck to get good players and in the end the players I got never set the world alight.
In FUT 10 I began the same way buying pack trying to obtain the team that I wanted and it worked ok and I had began to develop a decent team until I opened a rogue e-mail and entered my FUT details into a phishing website and lost all of my players.
This made me stop playing Ultimate Team for a while. Eventually I went back to it and spent some more money on packs and asked myself the question; how are people getting these amazing teams? I took to the Internet and found a lot of people talking about trading.
I began looking at a few YouTube videos which showed the basics to trading and I thought why not? After a few days of trading I started developing my own methods to rapidly boost my coins and made my first million coins within a month.
It is these methods that this guide is based on but with a few minor adjustments for Fifa 12 where I have been just as successful.
Introduction to Trading
There are 2 main markets for trading; players and consumables. The players market focuses on buying players for a low price and selling them for a higher price to make a tidy profit. The consumables market focuses on contracts, formations and positions with the same principal of buying low and selling high.
Players
When buying players try and focus on getting them with the most popular formations. I found these to be 4-4-2, 4-1-2-1-2 and 4-3-3. The reason for this being that players sell for a higher price at these formations because players are looking to improve their team chemistry.
Consumables
On FUT it is pointless having amazing players if you have no contracts! Without contracts you are unable to use your