Grand Exchange money making
Trading methods that scale with capital rather than levels.
Grand Exchange methods are structurally different from everything else on this site. They need no levels, no quests and no gear, and they scale with the size of your bank rather than with your account.
That makes them unusually well suited to two groups: new accounts with time but no levels, and established accounts with capital sitting idle.
3 methods
Grand Exchange flipping
Buy items below their going rate and sell them above it, taking the spread minus the 2% sale tax.
- Est. GP/hr
- 100k–3m
- Starting GP
- 100k
- Attention
- Low attention
- Requirements
- None
Bulk item investing
Hold items over days or weeks expecting a price rise, rather than trading the immediate spread.
- Est. GP/hr
- 0–2m
- Starting GP
- 20m
- Attention
- Very AFK
- Requirements
- None
Overnight Grand Exchange offers
Leave buy and sell offers running while you are logged out, capturing wider margins on slower-moving items.
- Est. GP/hr
- 50,000–1m
- Starting GP
- 500k
- Attention
- Very AFK
- Requirements
- None
What to know about this category
Returns are a percentage, not a rate
A GP per hour figure for trading is misleading, because the amount depends entirely on how much capital is working. A 2% return per cycle means something very different at 1M than at 100M.
Volume decides whether a margin is real
The single most common mistake is treating a wide spread on an illiquid item as an opportunity. If it does not trade, the margin is theoretical.