Frequently asked questions
Path of Trader and the PoE2 currency exchange
Buying a currency below its going rate and selling it above. The gap between your buy price and your sell price is the spread — your profit per unit. On the Path of Exile 2 Currency Exchange you do this by placing patient orders rather than taking whatever is on offer right now.
The exchange matches standing orders. You can take the best existing offer for an instant fill — fast, but you pay the spread — or place a patient order at your own price and wait for someone to match it, which is how you earn the spread. Spread trading means placing patient orders on both legs: buy a little under fair value, then relist to sell a little over it.
It scans the league's liquid currencies and looks for ones whose price keeps bouncing around a stable average instead of trending in one direction (mean reversion). For each one it estimates a fair value and a band around it, suggests a buy near the low edge and a sell near the high edge, and ranks them by how large and how reliable the swing is. It reads the latest hourly scan, so the picks refresh about once an hour.
Prices come from poe2scout.com, a public Path of Exile 2 economy data source. Path of Trader ingests it roughly hourly. poe2scout itself publishes with a lag of a few hours and keeps pair history for about seven days, so treat the numbers as recent rather than real-time — always confirm the live price in-game before you commit to a trade.
No account, no sign-up. Your trades, stash snapshots, and settings are saved only in your own browser (local storage) on the device you use — nothing is uploaded to a server. That also means clearing your browser data, or switching devices, will not carry them over.
Exalted Orb is the base unit the Path of Exile 2 economy is priced against, so it makes a stable common denominator. The market and scanner views quote in Exalted, and your ledger converts profit from every currency into a single display total so wins in chaos, divine, and everything else add up to one honest number.
Planned profit is (target sell price − buy price) × quantity, shown the moment you set a target. It only becomes realized profit when you mark the trade complete at the price it actually sold for — until then it is planned, not counted. Realized profit feeds your win rate and capital growth.
Every order on the Currency Exchange also costs some gold — a per-item fee (very roughly 120 gold for an Exalted Orb, around 800 for a Divine). Path of Trader currently tracks profit in currency terms and does not subtract gold, so on high-volume or thin-margin flips, keep the gold cost in mind yourself.
Path of Trader is a manual record-keeping and analysis tool. You place every trade yourself in-game; it never connects to, automates, or modifies the game client, and it only reads public market data. That keeps it firmly in the category of third-party tools players use alongside the game. As always, follow Grinding Gear Games' Terms of Use.
No. Path of Trader is an independent fan tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Grinding Gear Games. Path of Exile is a trademark of Grinding Gear Games.