DeKaTeK's StockBroker

Your private stock broker for the Auction House: price history and charts for every item you scan.

Auctionator tells you what an item costs right now. It does not tell you whether that price is a bargain or a rip-off, whether it is rising or falling, or what it usually costs on a quiet Tuesday. DeKaTeK's StockBroker keeps the history of every price Auctionator sees and shows it to you like a stock market chart.

Made for WoW Forever. Works with Auctionator (required): just scan the Auction House as you normally do, and StockBroker records everything in the background.

What it adds to the game

1. A price chart for any item – one click away

Alt + left-click any item in your bags (Blizzard bags and Bagnon both work) or an item link in chat, and the StockBroker window opens with that item's chart. You can also type any item name into the search box – it suggests names as you type.

The chart shows:

• the lowest Auction House price over time,
• volume bars underneath: how many were listed,
• ranges 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, 1 year or all,
• move the mouse over the chart to see the exact date, price and quantity at any point.

What this changes for you: you see at a glance whether today's price is normal, low or high.

2. Stats and a simple buy/sell signal

Next to the chart:

• Now, Average, Lowest, Highest for the chosen range,
• 24 hour and 7 day change in %, green for up and red for down,
• a badge: Cheap now, Normal or Expensive now, comparing today's price with the last 30 days,
• when the item was last seen and how many price points are saved.

What this changes for you: buy when it says Cheap now, sell when it says Expensive now. Like a broker, but you keep the profit.

3. Tooltip line on every item

Hover over any item and you get one extra line, for example:

StockBroker: 30d avg 12g 50s, now 9g 80s (cheap)

You can turn it off.

4. History from day one

On first start StockBroker imports the price history that Auctionator already keeps (about the last 21 days), so your charts are not empty. From then on it keeps its own, much longer history.

5. Small and fast

• Every scan is saved: detailed points for 14 days, then one row per day up to 90 days, then one row per week up to a year.
• About 14 MB for a whole year of 8,000 items.
• All the work is split into tiny slices in the background, so your game never freezes, even after a full Auction House scan.

6. Minimap button

Click the gold coin on the minimap to open or close the window, drag it to move it. You can also open StockBroker from the game's addon menu.

Commands

• /sb – open the window with the search box
• /sb <item name or link> – open the chart for an item
• /sb import – import Auctionator's history again
• /sb minimap – show or hide the minimap button
• /sb size – how much data is saved
• /sb help – list of commands

Good to know

• Requires Auctionator. Prices come only from your own scans – the more often you scan, the better your charts.
• History is saved per realm.
• StockBroker only reads Auctionator's data and never changes it.