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 PvP Alliance EU, the most gold sits in Staff of Jordan: 4 listed, worth about 996g. No item had a supply shock on the newest day of scans.

Current market: PvP Alliance EU. This browser opens every tool here until you pick another. Address for this market: ahledger.com/structure?market=forever/pvp/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 · PvP Alliance EU

Item	Depth	On the house	Spread	Turnover	Volatility	Days
Staff of Jordan	4	996g	0%	67%	34%	2
Fiery War Axe	7	665g	43%	111%	21%	2
Devilsaur Leather	79	631g 98s	13%	125%	44%	2
Bloodrazor	2	601g 74s	33%	0%	14%	2
Golden Pearl	74	590g 52s	23%	71%	51%	4
Freezing Band	1	499g	0%	-	-	1
Thick Leather	4,698	370g 20s	19%	72%	30%	5
Giant Egg	547	360g 91s	30%	131%	46%	3
Rosecap	367	330g 11s	28%	94%	76%	5
Mithril Ore	3,267	312g 32s	5%	60%	60%	5
Gloves of Holy Might	4	303g 24s	32%	30%	3%	3
Formula: Enchant Gloves - Riding Skill	3	299g 85s	0%	100%	0%	2
Elixir of Greater Intellect	268	297g 45s	32%	153%	40%	2
Potion of Beast Slaying	29	290g 28s	190%	138%	48%	2
Felcloth	54	269g 99s	0%	123%	0%	3
Briny Seafood Stew	631	258g 33s	0%	120%	31%	3
Runecloth	1,072	255g 2s	0%	104%	73%	3
Mageweave Bag	140	249g 20s	3%	65%	23%	3
Soft Bushy Tail	578	243g 85s	45%	63%	109%	3
Libram of Voracity	3	234g	1%	38%	82%	3
Underworld Band	3	227g 25s	3%	67%	0%	2
Heavy Stone	3,308	210g 5s	7%	48%	32%	5
Fractured Insignia	2	200g	0%	-	-	1
Formula: Enchant Boots - Greater Agility	2	199g 82s	0%	67%	0%	2
Stockade Pauldrons	1	199g 31s	0%	0%	0%	2
Wildvine	394	189g 12s	3%	103%	41%	4
Bolt of Mageweave	495	185g 42s	1%	63%	40%	5
Frost Protection Potion	64	184g 96s	19%	97%	118%	2
Mageweave Cloth	2,548	183g 20s	7%	91%	106%	5
Copper Bar	4,817	183g 4s	389%	28%	96%	5
Sungrass	356	179g 95s	23%	108%	47%	3
Small Silk Pack	514	179g 90s	20%	46%	51%	5
Precisely Calibrated Boomstick	1	175g	0%	0%	18%	2
Gold Ore	1,457	173g 96s	41%	68%	147%	5
Cerulean Dye	314	169g 49s	4%	58%	41%	5
Frilled Lichen	677	169g 11s	11%	30%	47%	5
Gromsblood	219	166g 41s	47%	116%	38%	3
Mountain Silversage	66	161g 70s	37%	125%	77%	4
Blue Pearl	429	161g 8s	9%	80%	31%	4
Deepfury Bracers	2	156g 86s	28%	-	-	1
Deadly Scope	31	154g 68s	42%	138%	56%	2
Solid Sharpening Stone	1,714	154g 26s	20%	98%	38%	3
Nightblade	2	150g 86s	0%	75%	4%	3
Recipe: Transmute Earth to Life	1	150g 57s	0%	0%	28%	2
Frost Oil	253	147g 32s	0%	51%	110%	3
Mithril Bar	1,228	146g 13s	1%	56%	61%	3
Steel Bar	1,252	145g 73s	1%	90%	32%	3
Truesilver Rod	160	139g 20s	1%	75%	36%	3
Sealed Expert's Writ	340	136g	126%	56%	80%	5
Imperfect Draenethyst Fragment	23	130g 40s	18%	69%	32%	3
Plaguebloom	29	129g 33s	0%	67%	3%	2
Iron Ore	2,449	128g 57s	0%	86%	53%	5
Whirring Bronze Gizmo	1,409	126g 81s	30%	59%	46%	5
Wintersbite	1,128	125g 32s	6%	68%	88%	3
Stonevault Shiv	1	123g	0%	0%	109%	2
Blackskull Shield	2	121g 66s	0%	0%	23%	3
Mageweave Reagent Bag	20	119g 80s	11%	111%	5%	3
Expert First Aid - Under Wraps	109	117g 72s	16%	48%	45%	5
The Ziggler	13	116g 87s	0%	75%	29%	3
Living Essence	13	116g 35s	11%	167%	70%	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	0.781	1.417	1
Monday	0.793	1.743	1
Thursday	1.356	0.375	1
Friday	1.158	0.552	1
Saturday	0.912	0.913	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 PvP Alliance EU, the most gold sits in Staff of Jordan: 4 listed, worth about 996g. 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.