Your First Flip

Put your bank to work on the Grand Exchange.

Every item on the Grand Exchange trades at two prices: the high that impatient buyers pay and the low that impatient sellers dump at. That spread is your margin. Buy low, sell high, and the exchange fills both offers while you do something else.

Magic logs

Last 7 days

Exit

729

Margin

+9

Entry

706

Buy PriceSell PriceNow
  • No stats required

    Your margin doesn't care about your combat level or quest log. Capital is the only skill, and more capital means bigger profits.

  • Passive profit

    Set your offers and go skill, boss or log out. The exchange fills them while you're away.

  • It compounds

    Buy limits reset every 4 hours and you can work several items at once, so every profit rolls straight into the next trade.

How the margin works

Buy at the low, sell at the high, and the spread minus the 2% GE tax is your profit. OSRS Exchange runs those numbers on every item, around the clock. Let's walk through a real trade.

Magic logs

As recorded on OSRS Exchange

Entry

706 gp

the site's Sell Price

Exit

729 gp

the site's Buy Price

Margin per item

+9 gp+1.27%

after 14 gp tax

Buy limit

12,000

every 4 hours

Profit per flip

+108,000 gp

for two offers

Step 01

Spot the margin

Open the GE Tracker and pick High Volume Profit from the Preset menu. It narrows the whole market to the most liquid items that still clear a profit after tax, biggest earners first.

The GE Tracker on the High Volume Profit preset, with the Magic logs row marked

Step 02

Read the live margin

Expand the row and its chart opens on Live: every five minutes of the last day, with the Buy Price on top and the Sell Price under it. The gap between them at the right edge is the margin trading right now. When both lines are moving steadily with that gap between them, the margin is live and you can trade it.

The Magic logs row expanded on the GE Tracker, showing its live prices

Step 03

Make the trade

Every price the game asks for is on the item's page. Run the trade below, from buy offer to payday.

InteractiveYour flip, in game

Your next flip

That flip made +108,000 gp. Now get to the next one first.

Everything you just used is free. Premium is for the flips after this one: you see margins sooner, you know your offer will fill, and alerts watch the prices while you're away.

  • Catch margins sooner

    Prices refresh every 6 seconds instead of every 30, so a new margin reaches you 24 seconds sooner.

  • Know your offer will fill

    A big margin is worth nothing if your buy offer sits there. Liquidity shows how many buy limits trade each day.

  • Let the market come to you

    Get a Discord DM or email the moment an item hits your price. Watch up to 25 items, with no cap on notifications.

  • Plan every flip on the chart

    Drag the live buy and sell lines to see your profit after tax. Your buy price is saved with the item, so you always know what you paid.

“I've managed to take 600M to 1.02B this week!”
Arthur17, in the OSRS Exchange Discord
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