I tend to count the pages of offers and orders in the auction to see how EU and Caly is doing.
Amount of pages of offers have dropped the last month from 800ish pages to around 720 pages.
The amount of pages in orders are the same.
What does this tell us?
Less amount of active player but still same amount of crafters?
If there are less pages of offers and same amount of pages of orders should mean a bigger demand than supply.
But traditionally this period of the EU downward sloping fluctuations is called "summer".
Chill out and be carfeul about that ped card. Summer is skilling time.
p.s. Maybe this has something to do with less claims?