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 Horde CN, the most gold sits in Parrot Cage (Hyacinth Macaw): 1 listed, worth about 8,000g. No item had a supply shock on the newest day of scans.

Current market: Normal Horde CN. This browser opens every tool here until you pick another. Address for this market: ahledger.com/structure?market=forever/normal/horde/cn

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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 Horde CN

Item	Depth	On the house	Spread	Turnover	Volatility	Days
Parrot Cage (Hyacinth Macaw)	1	8,000g	0%	-	-	1
Gloves of Holy Might	1	1,888g	0%	-	-	1
Pristine Leather	8,138	1,383g	76%	131%	57%	3
Staff of Jordan	1	398g	0%	-	-	1
Waylaid Crate: Journeyman Fabrics	192	382g 6s	122%	106%	94%	3
Burning Charm	502	331g 32s	33%	185%	0%	2
Forest Tracker Epaulets	11	328g 68s	64%	67%	37%	2
Golden Pearl	53	241g 44s	10%	86%	16%	2
Goldthorn	1,558	229g 2s	8%	103%	14%	2
Mageweave Cloth	2,858	209g 49s	32%	128%	106%	3
Large Glowing Shard	125	187g 50s	43%	75%	33%	2
Gyrochronatom	190	182g 32s	0%	151%	11%	2
Cold Basilisk Eye	9	180g	32%	156%	43%	2
Forceful Heavy Armor Kit	236	174g 64s	23%	87%	16%	2
Ranger Bow	27	162g	50%	59%	104%	3
Elemental Air	155	155g	35%	40%	73%	2
Large Knapsack	54	153g 36s	10%	61%	26%	3
Vision Dust	633	150g 46s	5%	109%	41%	2
Worn Battleaxe	3	150g	0%	21%	0%	3
Expert First Aid - Under Wraps	127	149g 86s	11%	101%	19%	3
Mithril Ore	1,878	146g 48s	0%	14%	16%	2
Wintersbite	733	145g 13s	0%	139%	1%	2
Mithril Bar	1,671	144g 54s	52%	108%	14%	2
Silver Ore	1,391	143g 27s	48%	73%	27%	3
Lesser Invisibility Potion	354	141g 60s	83%	115%	46%	2
Elixir of Lesser Fortitude	319	139g 97s	88%	141%	46%	2
Mageweave Bag	50	137g 50s	11%	36%	4%	2
Large Glimmering Shard	177	134g 94s	4%	71%	95%	3
Lesser Troll's Blood Elixir	1,185	133g 54s	182%	101%	58%	3
Elemental Earth	531	132g 75s	42%	125%	45%	3
Waylaid Crate: Expert Fabrics	131	129g 69s	20%	108%	71%	3
Thick Leather	1,985	125g 65s	12%	104%	61%	3
Expert Cookbook	90	122g 40s	8%	75%	30%	3
Heavy Stone	5,518	120g 84s	64%	120%	65%	3
Cresting Charm	404	120g 79s	97%	144%	53%	2
Jaina's Firestarter	2	120g	11%	-	-	1
Exploding Shot	39,604	118g 81s	133%	113%	83%	3
Guardian Gloves	214	115g 56s	19%	129%	31%	2
Bolt of Mageweave	254	114g 30s	3%	104%	16%	3
Lil Timmy's Peashooter	30	114g	40%	62%	35%	3
Khadgar's Whisker	1,918	112g 97s	51%	108%	30%	2
Thundering Charm	173	112g 45s	38%	82%	81%	2
Skycaller	16	112g	16%	39%	86%	3
Kaleidoscope Chain	4	112g	7%	67%	9%	2
Silver Bar	2,007	107g 17s	52%	92%	45%	3
Spider's Silk	705	105g 75s	31%	122%	59%	3
Steel Bar	711	103g 9s	4%	88%	54%	3
Iron Bar	3,140	102g 36s	2%	102%	89%	3
Toughened Leather Gloves	121	101g 64s	7%	99%	121%	3
Deadly Blunderbuss	338	101g 40s	43%	80%	42%	3
Deadwood Sledge	7	100g 80s	49%	-	-	1
Ankh of Life	1	100g 17s	0%	-	-	1
Blueprint: Anvil	16	97g 60s	47%	16%	5%	2
Mystic Heavy Armor Kit	120	96g 7s	13%	160%	6%	2
Hi-Impact Mithril Slugs	4,800	96g	50%	-	-	1
Heavy Leather	4,158	95g 63s	34%	76%	72%	3
Magenta Dye	137	95g 61s	17%	151%	65%	2
Lesser Nether Essence	60	94g 80s	4%	117%	15%	2
Bronze Bar	5,746	92g 51s	17%	43%	11%	3
Crystalpine Stinger	16	92g	6%	72%	57%	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	0.868	1.562	1
Friday	1.231	0.566	1
Saturday	0.900	0.872	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 Horde CN, the most gold sits in Parrot Cage (Hyacinth Macaw): 1 listed, worth about 8,000g. 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.