The LedgerThe Grand Exchange doesn't wait for you to be paying attention. Prices move while you're in combat, offline, or just doing something else entirely — and the best flip windows are often short. The Watchlist and price alerts exist so you don't have to babysit the market to catch them.
How it works
Add any item to your Watchlist, then tap the bell icon on it to set an alert: pick above or below, enter a target price (shorthand like 5m or 500k works fine), and hit Set. The tracker checks live prices in the background and notifies you the moment that item crosses your target — you don't need the tab open or the app in the foreground for it to work.
Why this beats manual checking
Constantly refreshing prices is how good windows get missed — by the time you happen to check, the price has often already moved past where the flip made sense. An alert flips that around: instead of watching the market, the market tells you when something's worth acting on.
A note on reliability
Alerts are checked on a schedule in the background, independent of whether you have anything open, and delivered as a real notification once you enable them. Free accounts can run a limited number of active alerts at once; premium removes that cap if you're tracking a longer list of items.
Set realistic targets, not wishful ones
An alert is only useful if the price you set is one the item might actually reach. It's tempting to set a "below" target far under the current price hoping for a huge dip, but if that price rarely or never happens, the alert just sits silently forever and you've effectively opted out of easier, more realistic opportunities in the meantime. A target close to recent price swings — a level the item has actually touched in the last day or two — is far more likely to fire and get you a real, timely flip than an aspirational number picked out of hope.
Alerts versus actively scanning the Market list
Don't over-fill your watchlist
It's tempting to add dozens of items to your watchlist "just in case," but a watchlist that large becomes hard to actually review meaningfully, and alerts on items you barely remember adding tend to get ignored or forgotten when they finally fire. A shorter, deliberately curated list of items you're genuinely tracking and ready to act on tends to be far more useful in practice than an exhaustive one that's grown unmanageable over time.
Alerts work for more than just flipping
Price alerts are equally useful for tracking gear or supplies you plan to buy for your own account's use, not just pure flips — setting an alert for a piece of equipment you want to buy once it dips to an acceptable price is the same mechanic applied to a personal purchase instead of a resale. There's no reason to reserve the feature purely for trading; it's just as valuable as a general price-watching tool for anything you're waiting to buy at the right moment.
Whichever way you use it, the underlying idea is the same: let the tracker hold your attention for you, so you can go do something else in the game without worrying you'll miss the moment that actually matters.
Alerts and the Market list serve two different purposes, and it's worth using both rather than picking one. Alerts are for items you've already identified and are waiting on a specific price for — they're reactive by design. The Market list, sorted by ROI or profit, is how you discover new opportunities you haven't thought to watch yet. Relying only on alerts means you'll never find anything outside the list of items you already had in mind; relying only on manual scanning means you'll miss the moment a known target actually hits.
If you haven't set one up yet: add an item to your Watchlist, tap the bell, and give it a real target — it's the single easiest way to stop losing good flips to bad timing.