The Yo-Yo setting controls how often Maven temporarily raises your price to its maximum price, then returns it to normal. You can find this setting on the Advanced tab within your Maven strategies.
By default, Maven automatically applies max price testing based on your Aggression setting. However, you can manually configure this behavior for more precise control.
Enabling
To enable the Yo-Yo setting, click the empty checkbox attached to the setting and set your configuration.
Configuration
Two inputs control the Yo-Yo cycle:
Frequency: How often to raise your price to maximum price
Duration: How long to hold the maximum price before returning to normal
Note: Duration must be shorter than frequency.
Example of the Cycle
If you set frequency to 60 minutes and duration to 15 minutes:
0:00 - Price raises to maximum immediately
0:15 - Price returns to normal (15-minute duration complete)
0:15-1:00 - Normal pricing continues (45 minutes)
1:00 - Price raises to maximum again (60 minutes since last spike)
1:15 - Price returns to normal
The cycle continues...
Total cycle time: 60 minutes (with 15 minutes at maximum price and 45 minutes at normal pricing)
Example Use Case
Let's assume you want to go to your max price every 5 minutes and hold it there for 15 minutes. To do that, you would combine the two numbers for the total length of the cycle, which would be 20 minutes, and set this as the frequency.
We would then set the duration to 15 minutes—how long we want to hold at our max price.
Note: When Yo-Yo is enabled, Maven will only raise your price to maximum on the schedule you set. The Aggression setting will still control how Maven prices your items during normal operation, but it won't trigger additional random price increases.