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The best CS2 Trade up Calculator

Trade up Calculator CS2

Topic: The best CS2 Trade up Calculator

In today's article, we are going to look at the best CS2 Trade up calculator out there and discuss the following topics:

  • What are trade ups?
  • How is the result of a trade up decided?
  • What's the best trade up calculator currently?
  • What's a reverse trade up calculator?
  • How to find profitable trade ups?

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What are trade ups in CS2?

Trade ups have a long history in Counter-Strike. From legendary trade up contracts in CS:GO to the most recent update of being able to trade up red skins to knives and gloves.

Generally speaking, trade ups are a mechanism to combine skins of lower rarity into one skin of higher rarity. In Counter-Strike, there are different rarity classes; most people know them as blue, purple, pink, red, and gold.

In trade up contracts, you can use 10 blue skins in order to get a purple skin, 10 purple to get a pink ... and so on. The only difference to that mechanism is when it comes to red skins. You "only" need five red skins in order to get a gold rarity item (glove or knife).

How is the result of a trade up decided?

Now that we know the core mechanics of tradeups and how many skins we need in order to trade up to a new one, ony question remains: How is the result of a trade up decided? What comes out of my input skins?

First things first: Let me tell you, it's anything but random. The possible outcomes of trade ups are highly mathematical and basically impossible to calculate by hand, which is why trade up calculators like the one we are going to present to you now were created.

The outcomes depend on a couple of things that will be more clear in a second:
  • Case / Collection the input skins are in
  • Float value of the input skins

What's the best trade up calculator currently?

In order not to map out all of those outcomes and do calculations by hand, trade up calculators were created. Right now, we are going to look at the best CS2 Trade up calculator and find out how to use it in order to plan your trade ups.

Simply go to CS2Locker.com/tradeup and you will see the possbility to fill in 10 skins of your liking (if you select a red skin it will automatically only show 5 slots). Furthermore, you also have the short-cut (in case you want to trade up skins you already own) to open your Steam inventory on the right side of the page and directly select skins from your Steam inventory.

After selecting 5-10 skins (depending if red or not) and entering the float conditions, you will see a lot of different, useful things:
    1. The average float on top (Which is important for your output condition
    2. Right below the selected skins are the possible outcomes, in numbers. In detail: the input cost, the expected return, the ROI, the profit chance, and the risk score. (These numbers already give you a very good idea whether that trade up makes sense to try or not)
    3. Below the numbers and statistics, you find the detailed possible outputs. These differentiate between how many different collections or cases are represented in the skins you selected as inputs.
    4. You can save the trade up to your profile to come back to it later

With that, the trade up calculator by CS2Locker gives us the perfect overview of everything worth knowing! Feel free to test around and try different skin combinations and inputs. If you're interested on how to get exactly the skin you want, or find profitable trade ups automatically the rest of the article will be very useful to you!

What's a reverse trade up calculator?

What is a reversed trade up calculator? The same way you can select input skins in order to calculate outputs, you can also select an output and see which input skins are needed! This feature hasn't always excisted, but they made it possible.

In order to calculate a reverse trade up:
    1. Enter CS2Locker.com/tradeup
    2. Switch to "reverse" on top of the page
    3. Press "Select output skin"
    4. Choose the skin of your liking and select the float you would like to get the skin in

Below, you will see all possible inputs to help you get the skin of your liking. Important notice: There is almost never a 100 percent chance to get exactly the item you would like to have - it always depends on how many other skins of the same rarity are available for this specific case/collection. For knives or gloves, you often only have a 3-5 percent chance to get the exact skin you want, while for reds chances are often 50 percent, as there are only two available in many cases.

How to find profitable trade ups?

As you might have already noticed by now - finding profitable trade ups isn't easy at all! For people who are looking into finding profitable trade ups CS2Locker has another built out feature that is absolutely free to use for the basic version!

Simply click on the top of the trade up or reverse trade up page on the button "Pre Calculated Profitable Trade Ups". After signing in, you will have access to daily pre-calculated, 100 percent profitable trade ups! Doesn't get much better than that.

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