| Item | Bought | Qty | Sell now (after tax) | P/L | Read | |
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| Item | Bought | Qty | Sell now (after tax) | P/L | Read | |
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| Total P/L if sold now: | ||||||
Each position is valued at the item's current instant-sell price — what you'd get if you dumped it right now — minus the Grand Exchange tax. The tax is 2% of the sale price, rounded down, capped at 5,000,000 gp per item; items that sell for under 50 gp are tax-free, and a short list of items (Old school bonds and basic tools like the chisel, hammer and spade) is always exempt. P/L is then simply (net sell price − your buy price) × quantity, and the table refreshes prices every minute from the OSRS Wiki real-time prices API.
Valuing at instant-sell is deliberately conservative: it's the exit you're essentially guaranteed. A patient sell offer nearer the instant-buy side usually does better — so "in profit" here means you're already ahead even on a panic exit.
Because 2% comes off every sale, selling at exactly the price you paid is a loss. Your break-even sell price is about 2.05% above your buy (buy ÷ 0.98): buy at 1,000,000 gp and you need roughly 1,020,400 gp just to get your coins back. On very expensive items the 5m cap works in your favour — above a 250m sale price the effective tax rate falls below 2%.
"In profit" or "underwater" is the current market measured against your cost. It is not a forecast. To judge what happens next, look at direction and events instead: movers shows what's crashing or spiking versus its 24-hour average, each item's page shows a price chart with backtested buy/sell bands, the terminal gives you candlesticks and volume, and a Discord alert can ping you the moment your exit price prints so you don't have to watch the tab.
Looking for the next position to open? The flip finder ranks live opportunities after tax, and the guides cover the method from scratch.