RuneScape talk:Grand Exchange Market Watch/Common Trade Index

Beginning Discussion
This is a general forum for discussions about the Common Trade Index of the Grand Exchange.

Feel free to suggest items that perhaps ought to be added or removed from this index, however try to keep the following ideas in mind when suggestions are added:


 * Items should be traded in large volumes by players on Runescape... through the Grand Exchange and on the various other trading forums, including Worlds 1,2,3,4,5 and 6, as well as trade exchange pages on various boards on fansites and the official RS forum.
 * Items should play a key component to common experience in working on a skill or ability.
 * Preference to include an item will apply to its use in an under represented skill on this index. In other words, no single skill should be over represented in this index (such as smithing for ores).  The creation of a new skill by Jagex on Runescape is in particular a useful time to suggest a new item for consideration on this index.  Over represented skills may result in an item being removed from the list.  No single list of items is going to be a perfect representation of all of the skills, but this is a goal, not a requirement.
 * By the nature of these items, they will likely be "consumable" items that can be used to further a skill and be "used up" while performing that skill. An item that a player/character would only buy just one of during their entire career on Runescape (unless they die) should have a much stronger reason for inclusion in this list over something that is consumable.

Also remember that this index is intended to represent the overall health of the Runescape economy, and to provide a hard number that can be used to suggest rising prices, inflation, or deflation. Rare items should not be included in this index, as an independent "rare item" index is going to document the rise and fall of that particular group of items. I'm just establishing the "beginning rules" for this index, but take nearly everything I write here with a grain of salt. Everything is fair game, and we are all trying to help build this together.

I hope that in time this index will be of value to all players on Runescape.