CS2 Skin Trading Glossary — Float, Seed, Phase, Tier

A number between 0 and 1 that describes how worn a skin is; lower is cleaner. It is fixed when the item is created and shown on every marketplace listing. Two copies of the same skin in the same wear can differ a lot in price because of it.

The five named ranges of float: Factory New (0.00–0.07), Minimal Wear (0.07–0.15), Field-Tested (0.15–0.38), Well-Worn (0.38–0.45) and Battle-Scarred (0.45–1.00). A marketplace lists each wear as its own item.

A slice of a wear’s float range, such as 0.15–0.18 inside Field-Tested. CSWatcher prices each band on its own because a lower float sells for more; a card’s strip shows one ceiling per band.

The highest price a filter will accept for a listing. On a Smart Watcher card it is set per float band: 95% of the lowest listing seen in that band, and typable.

A number from 0 to 999 that decides how the finish is placed on the model. It is why one Case Hardened is a blue gem and another is not. Marketplaces show it; tier lists rank it.

A community ranking of paint seeds for one skin — Case Hardened blue gems as Tier 1 to Tier 3, Fade percentages, Crimson Web web counts. A listing whose seed is on a list can be judged by that tier’s own price ladder.

A distinct finish of the Doppler and Gamma Doppler families: Ruby, Sapphire, Black Pearl, Emerald and Phases 1 to 4. Each has its own paint index and price, so each is priced as its own item.

The identifier of a finish. A Doppler’s phases are different paint indexes of the same knife, which is how a marketplace filter can ask for a Ruby and nothing else.

Variants of a skin: StatTrak™ carries a kill counter, Souvenir comes from a tournament drop. Both are separate items with separate prices, and CSWatcher hunts the plain skin unless you ask for a variant.

One copy of an item offered for sale on a marketplace at a price, with its float, seed and stickers. Sniping is about catching a listing, not an item.

Buying an underpriced listing before anyone else does. Manual sniping is refreshing and hoping; automated sniping is a filter watching the marketplace and acting on a match.

A saved description of what to catch: item or search, price or discount rule, float bracket, seed or tier rule, marketplace. Smart Watcher writes filters for you; the sniping page runs them.

One line of a multi-item filter: an item with its own price rule, float bracket and tier picks. A multi-item filter is one search with several trigger rules.

Letting the filter complete the purchase when a listing matches. In CSWatcher it is off until armed with a typed confirmation, runs under a spend ceiling, and buys through your own signed-in session on the marketplaces that allow it.

A standing offer to buy an item at a price, filled by the marketplace when a seller accepts. Orders fill at your price; snipers catch what orders cannot see, such as a float or a pattern.

The reference price CSWatcher computes for an item in a float band from the listings it has read; the base the tier ladder is built on.