Grand Exchange market report, Friday 21 August 2026

On Friday 21 August 2026, players traded an observed 5.5t gp across 4,154 items on the Grand Exchange. King worm rose the most (+48.7%) and Efh salt fell the most (−44.0%). Twisted bow led trading with 391b gp. The bond closed at 11.3m gp (−2.2%). GE tax removed an estimated 84.4b gp.

Data age: 00:00–24:00 UTC on Friday 21 August 2026, 288 of 288 five-minute snapshots. Written 20:36 UTC on 2026-10-11 and never changed since.

Top risers

Change from the first hour's average mid (00:00–01:00) to the last hour's (23:00–24:00), liquid items only.

Item↓	Open↓	Close↓	Change↓	gp traded↓
King worm	443	658	+48.7%	26.7m
Crystal key	19,994	28,676	+43.4%	401m
Ring of pursuit	1,261	1,560	+23.8%	28.2m
Magic roots	7,207	8,806	+22.2%	61.8m
Divine battlemage potion(4)	19,288	23,490	+21.8%	53.9m
Snowy knight (item)	2,410	2,913	+20.9%	47.7m
Marlin scales	1,127	1,360	+20.7%	519m
Pineapple	195	235	+20.0%	45.7m
Civitas illa fortis teleport	706	837	+18.5%	32.5m
Ourg bones	42,420	50,213	+18.4%	42.4m

Top fallers

Same measure, biggest drops first.

Item↓	Open↓	Close↓	Change↓	gp traded↓
Efh salt	209	117	−44.0%	109m
Frozen tear	533	341	−36.1%	84.3m
Amethyst dart(p++)	755	520	−31.1%	50.9m
Bolt of canvas	2,286	1,576	−31.0%	74.2m
Extended stamina potion(1)	2,697	1,883	−30.2%	29.9m
Watermelon seed	254	180	−28.9%	28.8m
Volcanic ash	146	113	−23.0%	119m
Adamant keel parts	5,955	4,722	−20.7%	62.9m
Young impling jar	4,215	3,343	−20.7%	376m
Mahogany hull parts	5,156	4,336	−15.9%	95.5m

Most traded by gp

Observed gp traded over the day at the price of each trade bucket, both sides.

Item↓	gp traded↓	Share↓	Units↓	Average price↓
Twisted bow	391b	7.1%	282	1.39b
Tumeken's shadow (uncharged)	359b	6.5%	458	784m
Scythe of Vitur (uncharged)	343b	6.2%	281	1.22b
Soulreaper axe	163b	3.0%	415	394m
Zaryte crossbow	158b	2.9%	439	359m
Old school bond	156b	2.8%	13,585	11.5m
Avernic treads	99.9b	1.8%	626	160m
Elysian spirit shield	82.8b	1.5%	165	502m
Noxious halberd	79.9b	1.5%	1,993	40.1m
Voidwaker	74.4b	1.4%	1,932	38.5m

Sector index moves

Each sector's items that traded at least 5m gp on the day, weighted by gp traded, first hour against last hour. The same method as the sector indices.

Sector↓	Change↓	Items↓	gp traded↓
Tools	+1.1%	29	11.3b
Jewellery	+0.9%	105	396b
Rares & 3rd Age	+0.4%	12	7.85b
Weapons & Armour	+0.3%	497	3.89t
Cosmetics	+0.2%	61	9.33b
Raw Food	+0.0%	27	9.35b
Ores & Bars	−0.0%	19	52.4b
Teleports	−0.1%	57	7.31b
Materials	−0.1%	287	430b
Logs	−0.2%	17	7.05b
Prayer	−0.3%	28	19b
Herbs	−0.4%	30	25.5b
Gems	−0.4%	19	19.8b
Potions	−0.5%	119	91.4b
Seeds	−0.6%	40	20b
Food	−0.7%	55	17.4b
Ammo	−1.0%	104	78.1b
Runes	−1.8%	23	64.2b

Live sector indices →

Bond price

Old school bond, first hour against last hour, and the day's volume-weighted average.

Open

11.6m

11.3m

Change

−2.2%

Day average

11.5m

13,585 bonds traded. Live bond price →

Biggest margins that held all day

Both sides traded in every one of the day's 24 hours and the hourly spread beat the 2% GE tax in each. Ranked by the median hour's margin after tax. Bonds are never counted.

Item↓	Median margin after tax↓	Weakest hour↓	Typical buy↓	Units traded↓
Demonic axe ornament kit	+57,963	21,935	2.02m	268
Sunfire fanatic cuirass	+44,728	13,320	2.28m	447
Malediction ward	+21,764	754	2.1m	441
Devout boots	+14,623	1,650	955k	456
Ancient d'hide boots	+14,478	790	184k	580
Elder chaos hood	+13,025	1,263	257k	772
Brine sabre	+11,933	1,326	329k	517
Abyssal dagger (p++)	+10,264	301	1.14m	1,348
Sarachnis cudgel	+8,213	2,374	116k	748
Boots of Brimstone	+7,846	3,528	249k	974

Dumps and spikes

Moves of 5% or more in about 45 minutes on at least 3× normal volume, detected live by Pulse, that also passed the lead story's checks: liquid all day, trade flow agreeing with the move, and at least half the move still there at the close. One row per item, its biggest move.

Item↓	Move↓	Change↓	Mid before → after↓	Volume vs normal↓	Flow↓
Annakarl teleport (tablet)	Dump	−34.9%	5,734 → 3,736	3.0×	Mixed flow
Antidote++(3)	Dump	−30.2%	9,843 → 6,868	3.4×	Sellers unloading
Efh salt	Dump	−23.1%	182 → 140	7.7×	Sellers unloading
Watermelon seed	Spike	+172.0%	72 → 195	3.4×	Real buying
Raw moonlight antelope	Spike	+47.5%	1,655 → 2,441	7.0×	Real buying
Ring of pursuit	Spike	+35.5%	1,001 → 1,356	16.9×	Real buying

239 dumps and 187 spikes in total. Mixed flowSellers unloadingReal buyingLive feed →

GE tax removed (estimate)

An estimate, not a Jagex figure: every observed trade's units times the tax on its average price, both sides, with tax-exempt items left out.

~84.4b gpestimated, on 5.34t gp of taxed trades. 159b gp traded in exempt items paid none.

Weapons & Armour~57.2b
Materials~8.09b
Jewellery~7.92b
Unclassified~2.45b
Potions~1.83b
Ammo~1.47b
Runes~1.11b
Ores & Bars~1.01b
Herbs~504m

Method: the OSRS Wiki's five-minute data counts the trades RuneLite players saw, so the true total is higher than what is observed here. For each item, the day's insta-buy units are taxed at their average price and the insta-sell units at theirs: 2%, rounded down per item, capped at 5m gp, nothing under 50 gp, and nothing on the exempt list. Exempt items

How this report is made: written automatically from the OSRS Wiki real-time prices API once the UTC day ends, from the five-minute snapshots Offerbook stores. Risers and fallers need at least 500 units and 25m gp traded on the day, the same filter as Pulse. All values are gp. Nothing here is advice.