Intergalactic Summit

Greetings IGS community,

following the recent discussions in this valued medium of communications where capsuleers gather to discuss and propose useful things, and taking into consideration the new IPI idea of creating a new trade hub in Agoze where minerals will be bought and sold in a Center for Advanced Studies School station with manufacturing assembly lines at Agoze, DuPont is pleased to announce that we have already started Project Microspread.

Project Microspread is simple, and consists of creating the minimum possible spread between bid and offer of a specific good (0.01 ISK), for relevant amounts given Placid market size.
Project Microspread will focus on three different minerals: Tritanium, Mexallon and Isogen.

If you check Placid market for those minerals, you'll see that DuPont is already buying and selling at CAS with the minimum spread applied, except for Isogen. The amounts, unfortunately, are yet unbalanced, but we'll be catching this on:

- For Tritanium, DUPO is buying 15 million units, but selling just 467k units (a few has been sold already);
- For Mexallon, DUPO is buying 550k units, but selling just 301,4k units;
- For Isogen, DUPO is buying 400k units, but we don't have a sell offer yet;

We are far from what we expect will be the amounts of minerals we will be buying and selling at minimal spread, as we have set aside an expressive amount of resources to that end (comparable to the Placid daily size of gyration on these goods). Also, DUPO will be buying everything in the vicinity of Intaki that is being sold, as it already did, so the only point of selling in the vicinity of Intaki will actually become Agoze CAS. We did that already and even hauled to CAS for that purpose.

In case you are a miner and work near Intaki, in the low-security systems, and you are willing to sell your minerals outside Agoze CAS but on its vicinity, we've also thought on a help for you.
Intaki will always have what we call a guidance bid. This guidance bid is an indicative of the limit we are willing to buy everything in the vicinity of Intaki. All you have to do is to check how Intaki is buying your minerals. Odds are we will be always the best buyer in Intaki at something around 10% ABOVE Placid average or even better, depending on our aggressiveness (feel free to haul stuff and sell at Intaki as well, but goods will necessarily be hauled to CAS to be sold by the microspread and the amounts will be considerably smaller). We will keep this policy as long as we find opportune and we will inform you publicly about policy changes in our guidance bid.



Your words to Vechtor made me antecipate this announcement Mr. Hawke, as we planned to wait a whole month before doing it.
I hope IPI can get with the pace we'll be working from now on ...

Jeane

Yeah, you got the spirit.

If you're looking for stimulation, my dear friend Valdezi could help you out.

A very interesting project you launched, will keep an eye on it, to see how it proceeds.

Ms DuPont

An announcement was originally made by the President of the IPI alliance a little over a week before your opening statements above and already in that short time the scale of thought and effort behind such focus on purchase and sales orders on the market is to be commended and your corporation's efforts will be appreciated as local trade and industry increases.

The volumes of minerals already being traded through Agoze IX-2 are impressive and can do nothing but benefit local manufacturing which of course was the principle idea. I have no doubt that just like those before me here, other corporations and pilots using Agoze as a base for their manufacturing will make good use of DUPO's announced market orders.

Market spectators could have made the assumption were they to consider the recent hostility between DUPO and the IPI in the recent discussions on Intaki 5-5, Agoze IX-2 and the related activities of the ILF and wider IPI amongst others, that the successes here would be minimal and restricted by infighting.

It's my hope that those of us actively involved, whether IPI, I-RED, DUPO or other, understand that this is not about who has done what, but is instead about encouraging trade across the Viriette constellation. It's about providing a stable base through mineral acquisition, processing and manufacture in Agoze for the system to become symbiotic with Intaki.

To date the Intaki 5-5 trade hub has stood as an clear example of Capsuleer-driven potential for the people of Intaki and is rightly held as a success in the region. Now Agoze IX-2 shows us all that the neighbouring systems need not sit idle in Intaki's shadow just as the Viriette constellation stands in the shadow of the successes of the Intaki Syndicate.

I look forward to celebrating Agoze IX-2 as an established hub of activity in months and years to come, a system at the core of a prosperous Intaki people.