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 RP PvP Horde EU, the most gold sits in Swiftthistle: 642 listed, worth about 250g. No item had a supply shock on the newest day of scans.

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

Item	Depth	On the house	Spread	Turnover	Volatility	Days
Swiftthistle	642	250g 38s	82%	29%	113%	4
Frilled Lichen	325	185g 25s	54%	56%	110%	4
Carved Centaur Totem	59	177g	67%	115%	132%	2
Greater Magic Essence	891	133g 65s	16%	87%	75%	4
Solid Stone	522	120g 6s	13%	86%	28%	2
Mithril Ore	451	108g 19s	21%	69%	45%	2
Cat Carrier (Siamese)	1	100g 23s	0%	0%	0%	2
Liferoot	218	87g 20s	169%	51%	74%	3
Magenta Dye	30	67g 76s	11%	79%	9%	2
The 1 Ring	4	64g	6%	50%	22%	3
Pristine Leather	243	62g 81s	0%	29%	107%	4
Magefist Gloves	5	50g 95s	29%	40%	123%	2
Silk Cloth	2,280	50g 16s	10%	58%	66%	4
Rosecap	26	49g 14s	0%	159%	60%	2
Iron Bar	738	48g 70s	13%	47%	47%	3
Mageweave Cloth	460	45g 95s	2%	98%	59%	2
Vision Dust	117	45g 63s	3%	72%	47%	2
Elixir of Defense	61	42g 70s	21%	132%	21%	2
Thunderbrow Ring	5	41g 65s	0%	67%	0%	2
Truesilver Ore	10	40g 80s	0%	-	-	1
Greater Mystic Essence	18	37g 97s	0%	25%	23%	2
Fadeleaf	137	37g 93s	0%	44%	41%	2
Sealed Expert's Writ	23	36g 80s	6%	107%	66%	2
Nightscape Headband	12	36g	0%	120%	0%	2
Gloves of the Fang	10	35g 50s	10%	39%	80%	4
Soul Dust	515	35g 2s	23%	84%	86%	3
Frost Oil	5	35g	0%	-	-	1
Greater Astral Essence	118	34g 22s	7%	52%	47%	3
Blue Pearl	87	33g 81s	92%	100%	95%	2
Heavy Stone	1,050	33g 60s	17%	53%	95%	3
Sword of Corruption	6	33g	9%	80%	19%	2
Barbaric Shoulders	33	33g	20%	102%	25%	2
Gyrochronatom	22	31g 67s	0%	152%	21%	2
Turtle Meat	227	30g 64s	0%	78%	43%	3
Toughened Leather Gloves	17	30g 60s	0%	72%	11%	2
Bauxite	20	29g 80s	33%	35%	16%	2
Iridescent Pearl	34	28g 88s	17%	36%	14%	3
Elixir of Greater Intellect	23	28g 74s	0%	-	-	1
Bolt of Silk Cloth	272	28g 56s	22%	51%	17%	3
Briarthorn	904	27g 30s	936%	33%	76%	4
Elemental Air	17	27g 20s	12%	56%	66%	2
Small Glowing Shard	45	27g	2%	68%	12%	3
Small Silk Pack	54	27g	20%	44%	34%	2
Deadly Blunderbuss	100	27g	0%	39%	36%	4
Tanning Rack	26	26g 78s	0%	61%	1%	2
Khadgar's Whisker	190	26g 41s	2%	33%	90%	2
Expert Fishing - The Bass and You	11	26g 29s	0%	86%	26%	3
Bronze Bar	1,202	25g 84s	14%	21%	21%	4
Pristine Hide	169	25g 35s	0%	40%	53%	3
Raptor Flesh	411	24g 61s	0%	101%	4%	2
Heavy Hide	79	24g 45s	37%	100%	63%	3
Free Action Potion	131	24g 22s	0%	71%	28%	3
Feet of the Lynx	3	23g 79s	0%	95%	55%	3
Expert First Aid - Under Wraps	16	23g 4s	1%	52%	5%	3
Guillotine Axe	3	22g 50s	0%	100%	76%	2
Raw Nightfin Snapper	23	21g 85s	0%	-	-	1
Elemental Earth	72	21g 60s	0%	13%	55%	2
Silver Ore	212	21g 15s	4%	32%	63%	4
Elixir of Agility	43	21g 7s	39%	10%	46%	2
Assassin's Blade	2	21g	43%	0%	42%	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	0.945	1.318	1
Monday	0.873	1.410	1
Thursday	1.081	0.677	1
Friday	1.101	0.595	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 RP PvP Horde EU, the most gold sits in Swiftthistle: 642 listed, worth about 250g. 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.