What should I flip in Albion Online right now? (sized to your silver)
There is no fixed "best item to flip" in Albion Online — the right flip depends on your bankroll and on how much of an item the destination market can actually absorb. A flip is only good if the quantity you can afford will sell before prices move, so liquidity-sized trades beat margin-chasing. Today's Moves does this calculation live: enter your silver and it returns up to 3 trade instructions sized by market depth, with profit shown net of every tax and relist fee.
- Margin-chasing fails: the widest spreads sit on illiquid items that won't absorb your order.
- Size each flip by four constraints: capital, visible exit depth, a 20% share of daily demand, and haul capacity.
- Judge a flip by net profit — spread minus the ~2.5% setup fee, sales tax (8% / 4% Premium), and expected relist fees.
- Stale prices and troll listings kill flips — only act on fresh data and depth you can see.
- Today's Moves applies all of this automatically — free, no signup.
Why is there no fixed "best item to flip"?
Every "best items to flip" list dies on contact with the market: prices shift hourly, and the moment a flip is widely known its spread gets competed away. More fundamentally, the best flip is different for a 50k bankroll than for a 5m one. With 50k you want a cheap, fast-moving item you can fully exit in hours; with 5m, that same item is irrelevant — its market can't absorb enough volume to matter.
The question to ask is not "which item has the biggest margin?" but "which trade, at a size I can afford, will actually complete?" A 40% spread on an item that trades twice a day is worth less than a 10% spread on one that trades constantly — because you can fill the second one, repeatedly, and compound. This is the core idea behind Today's Moves: it ranks trades by net profit you can realistically realize, not by raw margin.
How should a flip be sized?
The right quantity for a flip is the smallest of four limits. Cross all four and the trade should clear in under 24 hours; ignore them and you become the market — your own sell orders push the price down onto yourself.
| Constraint | Plain-language question | Why it caps you |
|---|---|---|
| Capital | How many can I afford? | Your bankroll divided by the buy price — never bet silver you don't have. |
| Exit depth | How many can I see buyers for? | Visible order-book depth at the destination is the only exit you can count on. |
| Demand share | How many trade per day? | Take at most ~20% of daily demand so you don't flood the market and crash your own price. |
| Haul | How many can I carry? | Mount carry capacity limits a cross-city flip to what fits in one trip. |
Most flipping mistakes are violations of constraint two or three: a spreadsheet says "buy 500" because the margin looks great, but the destination only shows buyers for 80 and trades 150 a day. The honest size is 30 — and at 30 units the flip may no longer be the best use of your silver, which is exactly why sizing has to happen *before* ranking.
What does a properly sized flip look like? (worked example)
Illustrative numbers — live prices will differ, but the math is the math. Say you have a 200,000 silver bankroll and a refined material costs ~1,000 silver in Martlock while Bridgewatch pays ~1,400. Capital alone would let you buy 200 units. But Bridgewatch trades ~300 a day, so a 20% demand share caps you at 60 units — that's the honest size.
| Line | Math | Silver |
|---|---|---|
| Buy 60 × 1,000 in Martlock | 60 × 1,000 | −60,000 |
| Gross sale at 1,400 in Bridgewatch | 60 × 1,400 | +84,000 |
| Setup fee on listing | ~2.5% of 84,000 | −2,100 |
| Sales tax (4% with Premium) | 4% of 84,000 | −3,360 |
| Net profit | what you actually keep | +18,540 |
That's ~31% on the 60,000 silver deployed, it should clear within a day, and 140,000 of your bankroll stays free for the next move. Without Premium the sales tax doubles to 8% and net profit drops to ~15,180 — still good, which is why the net number, not the raw spread, is the one to rank by. See market tax and fees for the full fee model.
See your 3 best moves right nowFree, no signup — sized to your bankroll, net of every feeWhat kills flips in practice?
Three things turn a paper profit into a real loss, and each has a defense:
- Troll prices: a single absurd listing (1 unit at 10× the real price) makes a spread look enormous. Defense: require depth — multiple units listed near the quoted price — before believing a number. Today's Moves applies a confidence gate based on how often the item actually trades.
- Stale data: crowdsourced prices age, and a 12-hour-old quote may already be arbitraged away. Defense: check the data age before acting — every card on Albion Marketplace shows a freshness chip, and stale items lose confidence.
- Relist fees: every re-price of a sell order costs another ~2.5% setup fee, and undercutting wars force re-prices. Defense: budget expected relists into the profit math up front — Today's Moves deducts an expected-relist cost before showing you the net.
What if there's nothing good to flip right now?
Sometimes the honest answer is: nothing, right now. If no trade clears both a confidence gate and a minimum-profit floor at your bankroll, Today's Moves shows zero cards rather than padding the list with marginal trades. Markets re-scan continuously, so checking back later usually surfaces something — and an empty list is cheaper than a bad flip.
While you wait, smaller bankrolls can grow through beginner-friendly methods, and the underlying spreads are always browsable in Flip Finder if you want to hunt manually.
Frequently asked questions
What should I flip in Albion Online right now?
It depends on your bankroll and current market depth, not on a fixed list. The right flip is one whose quantity — limited by your capital, visible buyer depth, a modest share of daily demand, and what you can haul — will actually sell within a day. Today's Moves on Albion Marketplace computes this live from your bankroll, free and without signup.
How much silver do I need to start flipping?
You can start with as little as 50,000 silver by flipping cheap, fast-moving items. Small bankrolls actually have an advantage: almost every market is deep enough to absorb their trades, so more opportunities qualify.
Why shouldn't I just pick the item with the biggest margin?
Because the widest margins usually sit on illiquid items. A huge spread on something that trades twice a day either won't fill or will collapse the moment you list, while a modest spread on a liquid item completes today and can be repeated. Rank flips by realizable net profit, not raw margin.
How many of an item should I buy when flipping?
Buy the smallest of four limits: what your capital allows, what the visible buy and sell orders at the destination can absorb, roughly 20% of the item's daily traded volume, and what you can carry in one haul. That size should clear in under 24 hours without crashing the price.
How do taxes and fees change what's worth flipping?
Listing an item costs a setup fee of about 2.5% and selling it costs 8% sales tax, or 4% with Premium — plus another setup fee every time you re-price. A flip is only worth doing if the spread clears all of that, so always compare flips on net profit after fees.
Do I need an account to see what to flip?
No. Today's Moves works without an account — enter a bankroll and you get sized trade instructions immediately. A free account adds trade logging, watchlists, saved plans, and email alerts.