Why do some skins stay stable for months while others constantly fluctuate?

[byanka895]

I keep noticing that certain skins barely change in price for weeks, while others behave like a roller coaster. At first I thought it depended solely on rarity, but that doesn’t seem to explain everything — some rare skins barely move, and some more common ones fluctuate non-stop. I also tried comparing float ranges and popularity, but even that didn’t give me a clear pattern. Sometimes it looks like stability has nothing to do with stats and everything to do with how players emotionally respond to specific skins.

[LeronWiw]

I’ve wondered about this too because I tried keeping a small portfolio of skins and the difference was crazy. One stayed the same price for more than a month, and another one kept jumping every few days. It made me think that maybe certain items have a “core audience” that holds them, while others get traded constantly. But that’s just my guess — I still can’t tell why some skins stay calm for so long no matter what’s happening in the community.

[Logas1x]

After watching several items for a long stretch, I realized that stability usually comes from skins that people hold for personal reasons rather than profit. Those don’t circulate as often, so their price barely shifts. Somewhere in the middle of comparing those long-term behaviors, I found myself checking https://dmarket.com/ingame-items/item-list/csgo-skins just to see how the calm skins differed from the ones that moved constantly. It became clear that the “roller coaster” ones are usually the skins that traders flip often, while the stable ones sit in inventories of people who simply like them. That difference in movement creates two very different price patterns, and once you see it, it becomes easier to understand which skins will stay steady and which ones will always react to every bit of market noise.