Light ballista

item #19478 · buy limit 8 · 16 days of history backtested

Buy limit8

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Candles use the GE's average instant-buy (wick top) & instant-sell (wick bottom) per period; bodies show period-to-period mid-price moves — the GE publishes no true open/close. buy bandsell band

Backtest — profit/day per unit by band

Each cell replays this item's history with that buy/sell percentile pair, no lookahead (bands from past data only). ★ = best. Hover a cell for flips & hold time.

buy↓ sell→	75%	80%	85%	90%	93%	97%
5%	3.9k	3.9k	6.6k	7.3k	7.3k	7.4k
8%	3.9k	3.9k	6.5k	7.2k	7.2k	7.3k
12%	7.5k	7.5k	12.0k	12.7k	12.7k	12.8k
16%	6.4k	6.4k	11.0k	11.0k	11.0k	11.1k
20%	6.4k	6.4k	11.0k	11.0k	11.0k	11.1k
25%	10.3k	10.5k	15.1k	16.3k	16.4k★	13.8k

Optimal buy 25% / sell 93% → 4 flips, 16.4k/day per unit (~27.5h hold) vs Default 12% / 93% → 3 flips, 12.7k/day (+29%)

Bands are a starting point, not a promise — the fill model is simplified and popular flips crowd (your buy gets bid up, your sell pushed down). How this works →

Unofficial fan project — not affiliated with or endorsed by Jagex. Data from the OSRS Wiki real-time prices API. A game, not financial advice; nothing here is automated and you shouldn't automate it (it's against Jagex's rules).