Your Scan Settings, Explained

Your scan is tuned in one place: the Scan settings panel in the Flip Finder, with the everyday controls and the two floors a flip has to clear. Here's exactly what each one does, with worked examples.

The Flip Finder runs a scan against your own settings, so two people can look at the same market and see different opportunities. Tuning these is how you match the tool to your bankroll and your appetite for risk. None of them change the underlying prices. They only decide what gets shown and how big each suggested position is.

Where things live. Every scan control is in the Scan settings panel right above your results in the Flip Finder: capital, risk level, scan type, membership, and the two bars a flip has to clear (minimum profit and minimum margin). They save as you change them, with or without an account: signed out they are kept in your browser, and when you sign in they are saved to your profile too. The Settings page is your account only. Everything else described below happens automatically.

Risk level

Set in the Flip Finder's Scan settings. The single biggest lever: it controls how selective the scanner is before it surfaces an opportunity. Stricter settings hold out for stronger, higher-conviction setups, while looser settings put more candidates on the board, including weaker ones.

• Conservative: only the strongest setups qualify. Fewer flips, but the highest conviction.
• Balanced: the default middle ground.
• Aggressive: accepts weaker setups. More flips on the board, but a lower expected win rate.

Items with a strong recent verified record are exempt from this depth requirement at any risk level. Once something has repeatedly proven it bounces, it doesn't need to dip as far to be worth surfacing.

Max capital per flip

Set in the Flip Finder's Scan settings. The most gold you want tied up in a single flip. The scanner sizes your position as quantity = capital ÷ buy price, then caps it at the item's GE buy limit. Bigger capital means bigger positions, and bigger absolute profit, but also more gold locked up while an offer fills.

Example. An item that buys for 2M, with a buy limit of 100. At 10M capital you'd be sized to 5 units (10M ÷ 2M). At 300M capital you'd be sized to 100 units: the buy limit, not your capital, becomes the cap.

Minimum plan profit

Set in the Flip Finder's Scan settings, and saved in your browser (and to your profile when you are signed in). Hides any flip whose full after-tax profit (per-item profit multiplied by the suggested quantity) comes in below this number. Use it to filter out flips too small to be worth your clicks.

Each scan has its own starting bar, because the three are built for different things. Standard holds out for one big win, so its bar is high. Fast Fill and High Volume make their money on many small flips, so theirs are much lower. Leave the box empty and every scan keeps the bar it was built with. Type a number and it applies across all three, so a figure that suits Standard will thin out the other two: clear the box to get their own bars back.

In the RuneLite plugin too. The Finder panel carries the same control, so you can raise or drop the bar without leaving the game. Link your account and the panel offers the value saved on the website as its first option; unlinked, you get the presets. A bar you pick in the plugin stays in the plugin.

Example. With the bar at 500K, a flip that would net 300K total never appears; one that would net 800K does. Note that this scales with your capital: more capital means more flips clear any given bar. Set it to Any to see everything that turns a profit after tax.

Minimum margin

Set in the Flip Finder's Scan settings, next to minimum profit. The after-tax return on your buy price required at the sell target. Where minimum profit is an absolute-gold filter, this is a percentage filter. It keeps thin-margin flips out regardless of size. Run it at Any to see every profitable flip.

This has a starting bar per scan too. Standard is built around a healthy margin per flip, while Fast Fill and High Volume make their money on margins of well under a percent, repeated. As with minimum profit, a number you type applies to all three, and clearing the box hands each scan back its own.

In the RuneLite plugin too, sitting under the profit bar in the Finder panel and working the same way.

Example. At 1%, buying at 1M must net at least 10K per item after tax. Raise it to 5% and you'll see only fat-margin setups: far fewer of them, but each one works harder per gp deployed.

Demand balance (automatic)

The scanner checks how much more an item is being bought than sold over the recent window, and hides sell-heavy items: you need buyers waiting when it's your turn to sell. This used to be a manual setting; it now applies automatically to every scan, so there is nothing to configure. A balanced or buy-heavy item passes, a sell-heavy one is hidden.

Alerts on open flips

Flips you're already holding are watched through your alerts, not a scan setting. Every tracked flip can carry one price alert, but it is yours to set: none is armed for you. Add one when tracking, or later from My Flips or the Alerts page. Each alert fires exactly once, so a price wobbling around your target never spams you.

Tracked flips can also be sorted into portfolios on the Portfolio page: name a strategy, move flips into it one at a time or in bulk, and each portfolio keeps its own deployed capital, open profit and banked results. New flips start in Main until you move them, and the page offers two layouts you can switch between at any time.

One automated warning exists on top of that: demand collapsing while a flip is under water. It can be switched off on the Alerts page if you'd rather not hear it.

Which settings to touch first

With several controls in front of you, it helps to know the order that actually matters. The one setting worth getting right before anything else is max capital per flip, because it changes every other number on the board. It decides how large each position is sized, which in turn decides whether a flip clears your minimum-profit bar, and it is the single input most people set carelessly. Put in the real amount of gold you are willing to tie up in one position, not your entire bank, and the shortlist immediately starts reflecting flips you can genuinely act on.

After that, leave the profit and margin bars empty to begin with. Each scan already starts with a bar suited to how it makes money, and typing your own number applies it across all three scans at once, which usually thins out the two that rely on many small flips. Only reach for those filters once you have a specific reason, such as wanting to hide anything that nets under a certain amount because the clicks are not worth it to you. If you are ever unsure why a flip you expected is not showing, the first thing to check is whether a profit or margin bar you set for one scan is quietly filtering the others.

The risk level is the last dial to touch, and the one to move slowly. Starting on Balanced and only shifting to Conservative or Aggressive once you have watched how the board changes will teach you far more than flipping it around at random. Treat capital as the setting you always get right, the profit and margin bars as occasional tools, and risk as a deliberate choice you make when you know what you are trading away.

A worked example

Say Dragon bones usually trade around 3,100 and have dipped to a 2,800 buy, with a buy limit of 7,500. With max capital 10M:

• Quantity = min(7,500 limit, 10M ÷ 2,800) = 3,571 units, capital-bound, not limit-bound.
• Per-item profit = (3,100 − 2,800) − 2% tax (62) = 238 gp.
• Total profit ≈ 238 × 3,571 ≈ 850K → clears a 500K minimum-profit floor.
• ROI = 238 ÷ 2,800 = 8.5% → clears a 1% minimum ROI.
• Risk level decided whether a dip to 2,800 (about 10% below the 3,100 typical) was deep enough to surface. It is at any level.

Once you track it, it moves to My Flips, where you can arm a price alert to watch it if you want one. Change any input, whether that's your capital, the floors, or the risk level, and the same market produces a different shortlist. That's the point: the scan is yours.

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