Inventory and holds
The Owned column
On the Items tab, the Owned 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, on hold 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 on hold (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.
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 Owned 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 Items 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:
| Reason | Meaning |
|---|---|
| All copies are under Steam market hold | no owned copy can be listed yet |
| No marketable asset for listing | there is no free, sellable asset id |
| Already listed | an active listing already exists |
| Blocked by sticker guard | CS2 sticker protection stopped the sale |
| Blocked by float guard | CS2 float protection stopped the sale |
| Sell price is not calculated yet | market data is still warming up |
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 Items 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
Accounts can still have groups from before shared strategies, or ones a strategy keeps there. The Items tab filters by group and moves items with a bulk action; new groups are not created on the account any more.
A group only organises items; it has no trading rules of its own. Rules come from the shared strategy, and a strategy is one set of rules. For different approaches — say, conservative settings for expensive items and more aggressive ones for liquid items — make a separate strategy for each set and assign both to the account: each strategy then gets its own group there, read-only on the account.