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Lobster F2P

item #379 · buy limit 6,000 · 15 days of history backtested
Buy limit6,000
TypeF2P
Notenot in the current top scan — backtest below still applies

Price chart

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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%332222
8%543332
12%543332
16%765433
20%765443
25%8★76543

Optimal buy 25% / sell 75% → 39 flips, 8/day per unit (~4.5h hold)  vs  Default 12% / 93% → 13 flips, 3/day  (+148%)

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).