ARK Markets — The Intelligent Auction House

Discover Opportunities. Evaluate Risk. Trade Smarter.

ARK Markets is an advanced auction-house trading and economic intelligence addon built for World of Warcraft: Forever.

Designed for traders, gold-makers, crafters, and everyday players, ARK Markets combines auction-house functionality with market analysis, intelligent selling tools, investment tracking, and evidence-based trading recommendations.

Whether you're searching for profitable flips, selling gathered materials, managing auction inventory, or planning profitable crafts, ARK Markets brings essential economic tools together in one unified workstation.

One Trading Floor. One Market Intelligence System. Complete Control Over Your Trading Decisions.

THE ARK TRADING FLOOR

At the heart of ARK Markets is a dedicated trading interface designed to make auction-house activity more organized, informative, and efficient.

The Trading Floor combines five specialized workspaces:

• Trading Floor: Search, browse, evaluate, and purchase auction listings.
• Sniper: Monitor watched items and identify potential buying opportunities.
• Seller: Evaluate inventory, manage owned auctions, and prepare listings.
• Positions: Review transaction history, spending, and financial records.
• Crafting: Analyze recipes, material requirements, and estimated profitability.

The interface features ARK's signature dark charcoal and antique-gold styling, compact controls, sortable results, and streamlined navigation.

Auction Search & Trading

• Modern Forever auction-house integration.
• Item and commodity search support.
• Item identity and variant validation.
• Live search results with sorting and filtering.
• Quantity-aware pricing.
• Purchase previews and confirmations.
• Manual auction posting and cancellation.
• Market-specific historical pricing.

ARK Markets is designed to keep the player in control of every transaction.

ARK INTELLIGENCE LITE

Market Analysis Built Around Evidence

ARK Intelligence Lite is a lightweight statistical decision engine built directly into the addon.

Unlike systems that simply label an item profitable because its current price is below a historical average, ARK evaluates multiple factors before presenting a recommendation.

These include:

• Current observed auction prices.
• Historical asking prices.
• Available market supply.
• Price freshness.
• Observation quality.
• Estimated profitability.
• Available player capital.
• Market confidence and risk.

The goal is simple: help players distinguish genuine opportunities from misleading prices.

Explainable Recommendations

ARK Intelligence Lite separates observed facts from estimates and uncertainty.

A large theoretical profit does not automatically mean a safe investment.

ARK helps explain why an opportunity looks attractive, where the available evidence is weak, and what assumptions are involved.

ARK Intelligence Lite uses transparent statistical rules. It is not an external AI language model and does not automatically trade on your behalf.

ARK OPPORTUNITY RADAR

Find More Than Just Cheap Listings

Opportunity Radar analyzes collected market information to identify potentially profitable activity.

Its analysis includes:

Vendor Arbitrage

Identify observed auction prices below a known vendor-return value, subject to item eligibility and current listing verification.

Market Flipping

Find listings that appear undervalued relative to historical observations.

Crafting Opportunities

Compare estimated crafted-item proceeds against available material costs.

Risk and Confidence

Evaluate opportunities using evidence quality, price history, estimated margins, and available capital.

Because auction listings do not prove completed sales, ARK distinguishes speculative resale opportunities from more directly verifiable economics.

Built for Fresh Economies

Forever's launch economy presents a special challenge: reliable historical prices do not exist immediately.

ARK supports early market discovery by retaining observations and applying conservative confidence rules.

As additional independent observations accumulate, the addon can provide more meaningful comparisons.

ARK SNIPER

Watch the Items That Matter

ARK Sniper allows you to create watchlists and monitor selected items for potential buying opportunities.

Features include:

• Item-based watchlists.
• Custom maximum purchase prices.
• Rate-limited auction searches.
• Opportunity ranking.
• Price alerts with notification cooldowns.
• Freshness and confidence indicators.
• Manual purchase integration.

Sniper does not perform unattended purchases.

You identify the opportunity. You make the trade.

ARK INTELLIGENT SELLER

Sell With Better Information

ARK Seller combines inventory analysis, market observations, programmable pricing rules, and posting safeguards.

Features include:

• Auction posting previews.
• Owned-auction management.
• Controlled cancellation workflows.
• Matching the lowest observed comparable price.
• Optional undercutting policies.
• Custom minimum prices.
• Vendor-return protection.
• Posting queues.
• Deposit and commission estimates.
• Exact-item identity validation.
• Pricing and inventory revalidation before posting.

Programmable Selling Rules

Create simple pricing policies for selected items.

Available rule types include:

• Floor: Establish a minimum allowed price.
• Match: Recommend matching the observed market price.
• Undercut: Apply a specified copper reduction, subject to applicable safeguards.

Rules produce recommendations and validation constraints. They do not autonomously post auctions.

ARK POSITIONS & FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE

Understand Where Your Gold Goes

Buying an item is only part of a successful trade.

ARK Markets includes financial tracking designed to help you understand historical spending, transaction activity, and supported profit calculations.

Features include:

• Confirmed purchase recording.
• Historical acquisition costs.
• FIFO purchase cost-basis calculations.
• Auction posting records.
• Cancellation cost tracking.
• Available gold and capital guidance.
• Transaction history.
• Unresolved transaction detection.
• Financial reporting.
• Sale-receipt review.

Accurate Accounting Matters

ARK deliberately separates confirmed transactions from estimates.

An auction's asking price is not counted as revenue merely because the auction was posted.

Similarly, disappearing listings are not automatically treated as completed sales.

When auction-mail evidence cannot reliably identify a specific sale, ARK preserves the uncertainty instead of manufacturing a profit figure.

Complete automatic sale reconciliation is still being developed.

ARK CRAFTING INTELLIGENCE

Make Better Crafting Decisions

ARK Markets includes profession-oriented economic analysis to help players evaluate crafting opportunities.

Capabilities include:

• Recipe cost estimation.
• Known reagent requirements.
• Inventory-aware material calculations.
• Alternative reagent handling where supported.
• Available auction-price observations.
• Configurable vendor purchase prices.
• Estimated crafting margins.
• Recipe ranking.
• Missing-material shopping lists.

When material prices, recipe outputs, or item identities cannot be resolved reliably, the calculation is marked incomplete.

ARK never treats an unknown material as free simply to display a profitable result.

An optional integration interface is included for future ARK Codex connectivity.

MARKET HISTORY & PRICE TOOLTIPS

Keep Market Information Available

ARK Markets collects auction observations to create a local market history.

Supported information includes:

• Observed asking prices.
• Historical price comparisons.
• Market-price trends.
• Available listing quantities.
• Data freshness.
• Observation confidence.
• Watchlist price thresholds.

Compatible item tooltips can display cached commodity auction prices when sufficient information is available.

Tooltip pricing does not initiate new AH searches, and ambiguous equipment variants are not assigned unsupported values.

Historical asking prices are not confirmed sale prices.

PERFORMANCE-FIRST DESIGN

ARK Markets is designed to reduce unnecessary processing and provide responsive trading controls.

Its architecture includes:

• Shared auction request management.
• Throttle-aware search behavior.
• Bounded processing work.
• Incremental market-data updates.
• Cached market and financial analysis.
• Limited background monitoring.
• Controlled data retention.
• Optional performance instrumentation.

The addon also includes safeguards for missing API capabilities, incompatible clients, unresolved trades, and invalid saved data.

Actual performance depends on the Forever client, auction-house size, and server conditions.

COMPATIBILITY

Game: World of Warcraft: Forever
Interface: 16001
Release: ARK Markets 1.9.5 — LIVE Test

ARK Markets is developed for Forever's modern C_AuctionHouse architecture.

Auctionator and auxForever are declared optional dependencies. ARK also includes coexistence diagnostics, although simultaneous-addon behavior requires further live testing.

No external desktop application, external AI service, or subscription is required for the built-in intelligence features.

INSTALLATION

1. Download the ARK Markets ZIP.
2. Extract the ArkMarkets folder into your Forever installation's Interface/AddOns directory.
3. Enable ARK Markets from the game's AddOns menu.
4. Log into the supported Forever client.
5. Open the auction house and type /arkmarkets.

For existing users, back up the previous addon folder and SavedVariables before installing. Replace the existing addon folder rather than merging releases.

Essential Commands

The /amarket alias is also supported.

LIVE TRADING & SAFETY

Version 1.9.5 makes live trading available at startup when the supported client and required storage checks pass.

Purchases, postings, and cancellations still require player-initiated actions.

ARK includes:

• Purchase price verification.
• Item and quantity validation.
• Spending safeguards.
• Transaction recovery records.
• Uncertain-result protection.
• Posting price floors.
• Manual confirmation workflows.

If transaction recovery cannot establish a safe state, the addon may block further trading until the outcome is reviewed.

Current Testing Status

Version 1.9.5 has passed its reported offline regression tests, but purchasing, posting, cancellation, server-event timing, and coexistence have not yet been fully certified in the launched Forever client.

This release is intended for live testing and feedback.

FEEDBACK & DEVELOPMENT

ARK Markets is under active development, with planned improvements including:

• Expanded sale reconciliation.
• Advanced financial dashboards.
• Additional crafting and disenchant economics.
• Improved seller-rule configuration.
• Deeper market-history visualization.
• More sophisticated liquidity analysis.
• Additional ARK Codex integration.
• Further trading and performance optimization.

Bug reports are especially valuable when they include the client build, steps to reproduce the issue, any Lua error, and the output of /arkmarkets check.

THE ARK MARKETS PHILOSOPHY

Discover. Evaluate. Execute. Track.

Discover opportunities using live auction information.

Evaluate profitability, risk, confidence, and capital requirements.

Execute trades through deliberate player-controlled actions.

Track financial outcomes using reliable transaction evidence.

ARK Markets — The Intelligent Auction House for World of Warcraft: Forever.

ARK Markets is an independent addon project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Blizzard Entertainment.