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Inventory and holds

The Own column

On the Market tab, the Own column shows how many copies of an item you own, split into available and held copies.

If some copies are held, a 🔒 marker appears next to the number. Hover it to see a tooltip such as:

Available 3, held 2 — five copies total, two of them still locked.

The tooltip also groups held items by release time:

  • N items unlock in N days;
  • N items unlock today;
  • N items held (date unknown) when Steam does not provide an exact date.

What “hold” means

Steam can temporarily restrict selling and trading for recently received items after a trade, market purchase, or drop. The item stays in your inventory, but it cannot be listed yet. SteamMarketRunner calls this a market hold.

This is not a system error

When all copies are held, SteamMarketRunner does not try to sell them. Once the hold expires, the item becomes available and can be listed automatically.

Hold state comes from the live Steam inventory during synchronization, so Own reflects what can be sold right now.

Why an item is not selling

A hold is only one possible reason. The Status column on the Market tab shows whether an item is Ready or Skipped; hover the status to see the engine verdict and reason. See How trading works.

Typical sell-side skip reasons:

ReasonMeaning
All copies are under Steam market holdno owned copy can be listed yet
No marketable asset for listingthere is no free, sellable asset id
Already listedan active listing already exists
Blocked by sticker guardCS2 sticker protection stopped the sale
Blocked by float guardCS2 float protection stopped the sale
Sell price is not calculated yetmarket data is still warming up
tip

If the item is Skipped, hover the status. A hold usually means “wait”; other reasons usually point to strategy settings or data warm-up.

Inventory import

The Import inventory button on the Market tab scans your Steam inventory and adds missing items to the tracked list.

This matters because an item can exist in Steam but be invisible to the runner until it is tracked. Import closes that gap.

The import summary reports how many items were added, already tracked, or not found in the catalog. Imported items have BUY and SELL disabled until you enable them.

Groups

Items can be combined into groups with separate strategy overrides. Groups are managed on the Market tab: create a group, select it, and move items with a bulk action.

A group strategy overrides the account strategy for its items. Use this to run conservative settings for expensive items and more aggressive settings for liquid items.

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