The Margins Board: Filter and Sort Every OSRS Spread

The Flip Finder hands you a shortlist. The Margins board hands you the raw market: every tradeable item, both sides quoted, the margin worked out after tax. This is how to cut it down to the part you care about.

The Margins board does no picking for you. It shows every item that currently has a real spread, which means both a live buy price and a live sell price, and it works out what that spread pays after the Grand Exchange takes its cut. Nothing is ranked by quality, nothing is hidden for being risky. That judgment is yours, and the tools below are how you make it.

Board or Finder? Use the Flip Finder when you want the app to tell you what to buy: it tests candidates against past prices and sizes each one to your gold. Use the Margins board when you already know what you are hunting for and want to search the whole market for it yourself. They answer different questions.

What each column means

Every row is one item, and every number on it is live. Buy and Sell are flip prices, not the instant-buy and instant-sell you would pay to skip the queue: they are the bid you would place and the ask you would place.

• Buy and Sell: the two sides of the spread as it stands right now.
• Margin: what one unit clears after tax. The tax is taken off at the item's own rate and rounded down per unit, exactly the way the game does it, so this is what actually lands in your pocket.
• ROI: that margin as a percentage of the buy price. This is the number that tells you how hard your gold is working, independent of item size.
• Last buy and Last sell: how long ago each side of the item actually traded. Read the next section before trusting any row where these are large.
• Trades/h: roughly how many times the item changes hands in an hour. Your proxy for whether an offer will fill.
• Limit: the GE buy limit, the most you can buy in a four hour window.
• Profit@Limit: margin multiplied by that limit, so the most one item can pay you per four hours. Small margins on high-limit items often beat fat margins on items you can only buy eight of.

Filtering on any column

Open Filter and sort above the board. A filter is one row of three dropdowns: the column, whether you want values over or under your figure, and the figure itself. Values come from a short list of round numbers picked to suit that column, so there is nothing to type on a phone.

Add as many rows as you like. They all apply at once, so a board with ROI over 2% and Buy price under 100K shows only items that clear both. Each active filter also appears as a chip under the button, and tapping the cross on a chip drops that one filter without opening the panel again.

Example. Say you have 5M to work with and no patience for slow items. Set Buy price under 1M so nothing is out of reach, then Trades an hour over 1,000 so anything left actually moves. Whatever survives is a list you could realistically act on this evening.

Sorting by more than one thing

In the same panel, a sort row is the column and a direction, High to low or Low to high. Clicking a column header on a computer does the same job for a single column, and clicking it again turns the order round.

The useful part is adding a second sort. The first one ranks the board; the next one decides the order whenever the first is a tie. That matters on columns where lots of items share a value. Sort by Limit and then by ROI, and you get the best return inside each buy-limit group rather than one giant block of 25,000-limit runes in arbitrary order.

On columns like ROI, where almost no two items share a number exactly, a second sort will rarely change anything. That is arithmetic rather than a fault: there are no ties for it to break.

Saving a board you built

Once the board looks the way you want, Save this view keeps it. If you started from a saved view, Save updates that view in place, and Save as a new view makes another instead. Saved views live on your account, not in your browser, so a board you set up on your computer is waiting for you on your phone and in any other browser you sign in to. The Filter and sort dropdown on the board lists your saved views as presets, next to the default board and Custom: pick one and it is on, and the dropdown always shows which one you are on. Edit opens the panel to build, save, rename or delete, and Clear all at the top of the panel drops every filter and puts the sort back to the default, so you can start over.

A new view starts with a simple name like Margin Settings 1, and it stores the filters and the sorts together. Give it a name you will recognise with the pencil next to it, or delete it with the cross.

Why freshness matters most

A spread is only real if both sides are current. An item whose sell side last traded three hours ago has a quoted price that nobody has tested since, and a margin worked out from it can be pure fiction. The board already refuses to show an item unless both sides have traded in the last hour, but inside that hour there is a wide range.

This is why Last buy and Last sell are worth filtering on before you trust a big number. A row showing an eye-watering ROI with both sides last traded fifty minutes ago is usually telling you the item is thin, not that you have found free gold. Add Last bought within 15 min and Last sold within 15 min and the fiction mostly disappears.

Rule of thumb. Sort by ROI on its own and the top of the board will be dominated by items almost nobody trades. Filter for freshness and volume first, and the ranking starts describing flips you can actually make.

The board also does some of this judgement for you. Spreads that have historically failed to hold up are marked as fragile and sink beneath the steadier ones in the default order, so a number that looks too good but rarely repeats is flagged rather than left sitting at the top of the board. It is worth trusting that marker: a fragile spread is usually a one-off, not a routine you can build on. There is more on why persistence matters in where profit is most consistent.

Board or Finder: which to reach for

The Margins board and the Flip Finder answer two different questions, and knowing which one you are asking saves a lot of time. The board shows you the whole market as it stands: every live spread, sortable and filterable however you like, with no opinion attached. The Finder takes a view. It weighs each opportunity against volume, freshness, the tax and your capital, and hands you a ranked shortlist of the flips it actually thinks are worth taking, with a public record of how its calls have turned out.

Reach for the board when you want to explore or when you have your own thesis. If you already know you want bulk rune flips for a big bank, or cheap fast movers for a small one, the board lets you carve the market down to exactly that and save the result. Reach for the Finder when you would rather be handed a decision than build one, or when you want the app to catch opportunities you would not have thought to filter for. Most experienced users flow between the two: they browse the board to understand what the market is offering today, then let the Finder rank the slice they care about. Neither is a lesser tool; they are the manual and the automatic view of the same underlying data.

Three boards worth building

Each of these is a couple of dropdown picks, and each is worth saving once you have it.

• Bulk grinding. Filter Buy limit over 1,000 and Trades an hour over 1,000, then sort by Profit@Limit high to low. This surfaces the items where a small per-unit margin turns into real gold because you can buy thousands of them. Runes, bones and food live here.
• Small bankroll. Filter Buy price under 100K and ROI over 2%, then sort by Trades an hour high to low. Everything shown is affordable, pays a real percentage, and moves fast enough to recycle your gold several times a day.
• Best of each tier. No filters at all. Sort by Limit high to low, then by ROI high to low. You get the market grouped by how much of each item you are allowed to buy, with the best return at the top of every group.

None of this changes what the scanner does. The Margins board is the market as it is, and the Flip Finder is still where the app puts its own neck out and tells you which flips it thinks are worth taking, with a public record of how those calls turned out.

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