Weekly economy report
Week 34, 2026
17–23 August 2026. Every figure below is computed from prices we recorded and timestamped ourselves — nothing here is estimated, and where we hold too little to say something, the page says so instead of showing a zero.
Partial coverage: we recorded prices on 3 of this week’s seven days. Repricings on the other days are only counted where the change was still the item’s latest when we next looked, so the totals below are a floor rather than a complete count.
Key rate ranged 64.11–64.44 ref across 25 observations in the week.
Biggest risers
| Item | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Misty Skull Officer's Ushanka 6 observations | 17.1 keys | 68.5 keys | +299.98% |
| Rainbow Reverie Horror Shawl 3 observations | 9.65 keys | 38.5 keys | +298.97% |
| Death at Dusk Coupe D'isaster 4 observations | 8.86 keys | 35.2 keys | +297.29% |
| Sparkling Lights Dancing Doe 3 observations | 12.0 keys | 47.8 keys | +296.98% |
| Death's Daggers Frigid Fashion 3 observations | 9.30 keys | 36.7 keys | +294.4% |
| Vivid Plasma Surgeon's Stahlhelm 5 observations | 11.9 keys | 46.6 keys | +292.95% |
| Acidic Bubbles of Envy Taunt: The Schadenfreude 3 observations | 14.3 keys | 56.2 keys | +292.38% |
| Haunted Kraken El Mostacho 3 observations | 10.9 keys | 42.6 keys | +291.25% |
| Halcyon Halo Mannhattan Protect 6 observations | 8.11 keys | 31.7 keys | +290.86% |
| Prismatic Haze Taunt: Rock, Paper, Scissors 5 observations | 7.34 keys | 28.7 keys | +290.8% |
| Spooky Night Taunt: Fresh Brewed Victory 3 observations | 2.32 keys | 9.05 keys | +290.31% |
| Molten Mallard Kiss King 3 observations | 8.30 keys | 32.2 keys | +288.17% |
Biggest fallers
| Item | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colonel's Coat Strangifier 5 observations | 13.6 keys | 3.88 ref | -99.55% |
| Chiroptera Venenata Towering Titanium Pillar of Hats 4 observations | 438 keys | 6.91 keys | -98.42% |
| Knifestorm Attendant 5 observations | 638 keys | 10.4 keys | -98.38% |
| Demonflame Old Guadalajara 7 observations | 412 keys | 6.92 keys | -98.32% |
| Demonflame Sergeant's Drill Hat 4 observations | 818 keys | 16.1 keys | -98.03% |
| Knifestorm Dead Cone 3 observations | 417 keys | 9.39 keys | -97.75% |
| Stormy 13th Hour Ye Olde Baker Boy 5 observations | 463 keys | 10.5 keys | -97.74% |
| Something Burning This Way Comes Ye Olde Baker Boy 4 observations | 397 keys | 10.5 keys | -97.36% |
| Arcana Buckaroo's Hat 4 observations | 351 keys | 9.38 keys | -97.33% |
| Hellfire Napper's Respite 4 observations | 386 keys | 10.4 keys | -97.32% |
| Something Burning This Way Comes Glengarry Bonnet 4 observations | 344 keys | 9.30 keys | -97.3% |
| Time Warp Western Wear 4 observations | 300 keys | 8.16 keys | -97.28% |
How these numbers are made
Movers compare the median of an item’s recorded prices during the week against the median of its prices over the four weeks before it — not the first reading against the last. Upstream occasionally emits a single nonsense quote, and one item read at 9 keys after trading at 1,100 is enough to put a fake +7,200% swing at the top of an endpoint-to-endpoint list. Items are only compared when they have at least three observations across the two windows and were worth at least one key to start with, and moves beyond ±300% are dropped as bad data rather than shown. 29,281 items met that bar this week.
Values are held as whole keys plus whole scrap and compared in scrap at the key rate recorded alongside each price, so a week where the key itself moved shifts every figure by that much on top of the item’s own move.
“Items repriced” is not trade volume. Nobody publishes volume for this catalogue — Steam reports it only for names that map to a single market listing, which rules out all 41,000 unusuals, because the market name leaves the effect off. What this counts is how many items changed price, which is a measure of how busy the pricing was, not of how much changed hands.
Generated 2026-08-24 05:06 UTC from our own price history.