Decide which GP is available for trading
Start in the Bankroll Planner. Set aside the GP you need for supplies, gear or other goals before deciding how much to commit to offers. Use a reserve that fits your own plans; a universal percentage cannot know what you want to buy next.
For an illustrative 2,000,000 GP budget, reserving 500,000 GP leaves 1,500,000 GP for proposed trading commitments. That is a ceiling for the exercise, not a target you must spend. Existing offers and stock still awaiting sale already compete for that budget.
Keep cash and stock in separate columns
A proposed 100-item purchase at 10,000 GP needs 1,000,000 GP. If only 30 items fill, your position is 30 items acquired for 300,000 GP. The remaining 700,000 GP is still associated with the unfilled offer until you change or cancel it in game.
| State in the example | How to treat it |
|---|---|
| 30 items acquired | Owned inventory with 300,000 GP acquisition cost |
| 70 items still requested | An unfilled intention, not inventory |
| GP left on the offer | Committed cash until actually recovered |
| 500,000 GP reserve | Outside the planned trading allocation |
Nexus records are entered manually. Changing a record does not place, cancel or collect a Grand Exchange offer. Reconcile the game state before using the updated cash figure for another plan.
Review exposure before adding another item
Use Strategies & Exposure to connect the position with your trading idea. Several positions can depend on the same assumption even when their item names differ. Write down what would make you reconsider that assumption.
Compare an additional purchase with both your remaining allocation and the GP already tied up in unsold inventory. Avoid treating an expected sale as available cash. If the first position cannot exit at the planned price, a second commitment can leave much less room to adjust.
Record the partial exit precisely
Suppose you sell 12 of the 30 acquired items. Record those 12 actual sales and the corresponding net proceeds; 18 items remain. Do not mark all 30 as sold or use the 100-item original offer as the completed quantity.
Keep the acquisition basis for sold units consistent with your records. When purchases fill at several prices, reconcile the quantities and costs before interpreting a profit total. A note about the original offer is useful context, but it cannot replace the fill details.
Finish with one record of each sale
Review tracked fills in Open Orders. Use the Trade Journal for separate completed trades, without entering a sale already accounted for through orders. Check remaining stock and recovered GP against the game before starting a new session.
For the full workflow, read From Grand Exchange research to a trade record.
Sources and related reference
Manual Nexus trading records. Example allocations are planning exercises, not recommended position sizes.