Potentials

These are asks, not sales. Each figure is the cheapest listing carrying that Potential in that region. Nobody has bought at it, and to become the cheapest listing yourself you have to undercut it — so you will receive a little less than the number shown.

The margin is on what you lay out. The Margin column is the same gap as the Lucent figure beside it, divided by the cheapest ask — the price you actually pay. Not by the sale price, and not by the buy plus the ticket. It exists because two rows can print the same gap in Lucent and be nothing like the same trade: 3,000 on a 3,000 buy doubles what you put in, 3,000 on a 30,000 buy adds a tenth of it. The Lucent column is the size of the cheque; the Margin column is that cheque measured against what you had to lay out to get it. Neither one answers for the other, which is why both are on the board.

Shared trip costs are not assigned per item. A crossing can carry a basket of different items, so the board subtracts the auction-house fee but does not invent a transfer-cost share for any single row.

A gap today is not a gap tomorrow. The badge on each row counts the days this same gap also remained profitable after the auction-house fee on the same corroborated figure. Read a high count as evidence the gap is persistent and a zero as evidence it is not, but do not read either as a forecast.

A gap several people act on closes. Your listing becomes that region's new cheapest, and this board is public. For how quickly a Potential tends to sell, and for the gap inside a single region, switch to Browse above.