What do depth, spread and turnover mean?

Depth is the units listed now. Spread is the gap between the 25th and 75th percentile of the listings at the latest scan, as a share of the median: a wide spread means the price you get depends on timing. Turnover is how much of the shelf changes a day, so a high turnover means the item sells.

What is a supply shock on the auction house?

The newest day of scans shows an item listed in a quantity two standard deviations away from its previous 30 days. Flooded means far more than usual is listed, and the price tends to sag; drained means the shelf emptied, and the price tends to climb.

Market structure

Pick a market. Every item shows how much of it you can move, how fast its shelf turns over, and whether its supply just changed.

For the size of each house as a whole, see the economy of every megaserver.

On Normal Alliance EU, the most gold sits in Staff of Jordan: 6 listed, worth about 1,074g. No item had a supply shock on the newest day of scans.

Current market: Normal Alliance EU. This browser opens every tool here until you pick another. Address for this market: ahledger.com/structure?market=forever/normal/alliance/eu

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▸How this is worked out

Depth is units listed now. Spread is the gap between the 25th and 75th percentile of the book at the most recent scan, as a share of that scan's median. Turnover is how much of the shelf changes per day. A shock is the newest day's quantity sitting two standard deviations from the 30 days before it.

Depth and turnover · Normal Alliance EU

Item	Depth	On the house	Spread	Turnover	Volatility	Days
Staff of Jordan	6	1,074g	17%	68%	22%	3
Gut Ripper	2	800g 12s	25%	67%	88%	2
Runecloth	908	444g 92s	0%	70%	15%	2
Underworld Band	8	360g	29%	82%	24%	3
Truesilver Bar	387	259g 29s	45%	63%	61%	4
Recipe: Greater Stoneshield Potion	1	245g 61s	0%	0%	23%	3
Solid Stone	4,912	234g 30s	50%	90%	41%	4
Ardent Custodian	1	222g	0%	0%	6%	2
Expert First Aid - Under Wraps	196	209g 72s	4%	64%	42%	5
Star Ruby	45	202g 47s	9%	52%	87%	4
Traveler's Backpack	4	200g	0%	27%	10%	4
Jungle Remedy	531	185g 85s	29%	90%	27%	4
Dazzling Longsword	4	180g	4%	75%	24%	3
Blueprint: Fishing Rack	21	171g 15s	23%	36%	44%	4
Thick Leather	2,336	170g 29s	8%	72%	39%	5
Gold Ore	1,119	156g 54s	29%	84%	34%	5
Red Mageweave Headband	26	153g 92s	17%	182%	0%	2
Cassandra's Grace	1	150g 4s	0%	0%	0%	2
Mithril Bar	1,133	146g 49s	3%	61%	99%	3
Beguiler Robes	3	145g 2s	0%	86%	64%	2
Plans: Mithril Shield Spike	11	142g 89s	15%	79%	50%	3
Blueprint: Trapper's Workbench	9	137g 70s	2%	96%	5%	3
Recipe: Dragonbreath Chili	3	135g	44%	-	-	1
Truesilver Rod	150	132g	8%	86%	68%	3
Lesser Bloodstone Ore	751	131g 27s	9%	87%	49%	3
Cresting Charm	225	125g 97s	9%	86%	24%	4
Moonsteel Broadsword	38	119g 32s	1%	81%	61%	3
Gloves of Holy Might	3	117g	64%	40%	12%	2
Heavy Leather	3,808	116g 90s	17%	84%	191%	5
Expert Cookbook	95	114g	0%	63%	16%	5
Waylaid Crate: Journeyman Fabrics	162	113g 40s	73%	39%	65%	5
Free Action Potion	818	110g 43s	119%	43%	69%	4
Torn Bear Pelt	418	108g 59s	23%	40%	45%	5
Item 287070	3	105g 60s	85%	38%	80%	3
Spider's Silk	728	101g 77s	51%	37%	43%	5
19 Pound Catfish	1	100g 19s	0%	27%	38%	4
Fractured Insignia	1	100g 1s	0%	-	-	1
Kang the Decapitator	1	100g	0%	-	-	1
Recipe: Elixir of Greater Firepower	1	100g	0%	0%	0%	2
Boneslasher	5	99g 95s	25%	67%	14%	2
Executioner's Cleaver	1	99g 80s	0%	-	-	1
Boots of Avoidance	1	99g	0%	-	-	1
Bolt of Mageweave	245	96g 77s	2%	49%	30%	5
Silk Cloth	4,798	95g 96s	7%	56%	102%	5
Iron Ore	2,054	95g 71s	11%	58%	60%	5
Mithril Ore	852	95g 59s	0%	90%	84%	4
Handful of Copper Bolts	2,271	94g 70s	261%	34%	143%	5
The Silencer	8	92g 64s	4%	55%	77%	3
Small Radiant Shard	71	90g 88s	53%	100%	31%	3
Blue Pearl	216	90g 72s	2%	74%	68%	4
Frost Oil	232	90g 38s	0%	89%	126%	3
Blueprint: Spinning Wheel	5	90g 30s	0%	76%	56%	4
Iron Bar	1,691	90g 13s	5%	54%	101%	5
Icemail Jerkin	1	90g 12s	0%	-	-	1
Scarlet Belt	12	89g 88s	32%	81%	17%	3
Golden Pearl	32	89g 60s	2%	45%	32%	4
Pristine Leather	893	89g 30s	30%	37%	27%	5
Elixir of Greater Agility	52	87g 88s	0%	158%	22%	2
Tin Ore	3,376	87g 43s	12%	43%	16%	5
Advanced Target Dummy	48	86g 87s	24%	37%	13%	2

A tight spread with high depth is a market you can move size in. A wide spread with low depth moves against you the moment you buy.

Day of week

Day	Price index	Listings index	Days
Sunday	0.799	1.331	1
Monday	0.828	1.778	1
Thursday	1.321	0.421	1
Friday	1.153	0.582	1
Saturday	0.900	0.888	1

Each day is indexed against the week around it, item by item, so neither an expensive item nor a market that drifted over the quarter can tilt the table, and the seven are then centred so an average week reads 1.000. Under 1.000 is a cheap day to buy; over 1.000 is a good day to sell. The Days column counts the days behind each figure, not the readings, so read it once there are several weeks there.

Common questions

Where is the most gold listed on the WoW Forever auction house?: On Normal Alliance EU, the most gold sits in Staff of Jordan: 6 listed, worth about 1,074g. No item had a supply shock on the newest day of scans.
What do depth, spread and turnover mean?: Depth is the units listed now. Spread is the gap between the 25th and 75th percentile of the listings at the latest scan, as a share of the median: a wide spread means the price you get depends on timing. Turnover is how much of the shelf changes a day, so a high turnover means the item sells.
What is a supply shock on the auction house?: The newest day of scans shows an item listed in a quantity two standard deviations away from its previous 30 days. Flooded means far more than usual is listed, and the price tends to sag; drained means the shelf emptied, and the price tends to climb.