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Gin4
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#1 - 2012-05-15 09:56:11 UTC
Hello capsuleers!

I'm starting to station trading and i was searching for a program that analyze the market (IGB?) and than help me discover good items to trade for profit, i tought eve mentat was doing it but i can't figure it out how to scan the whole market of a station.
Do you suggest to use a different program?

Any other suggestion will be really appreciated.
Johnny Frecko
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2012-05-15 10:35:27 UTC
even if you scan the whole market eve mentat won't tell you which of the thousands of items you scanned have good margins.
and if you need to check them one by one, just do it on the market itself..

As far as i know there isn't a software that does that, But i've wrong plenty of times before.
Gin4
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#3 - 2012-05-15 10:39:02 UTC
so the only solution is to scan the market by myself click after click and calculate the profit for every modules?
There are like 203902390239 of modules, that will be interesting : /
Doggfather san
420 Enterprises.
#4 - 2012-05-15 10:52:56 UTC
Gin4 wrote:
so the only solution is to scan the market by myself click after click and calculate the profit for every modules?
There are like 203902390239 of modules, that will be interesting : /



Depending on the value of the item and your taxes all you are really looking for is a minimum of 10% after tax, profit margin.

You can power through them quickly. Plus if you go through them, and you can can cut out a lot of them because you know they wont be worth your while ( ie. Tritanium), you can find those sweet sweet deals.

Check out our trading blog at http://420enterprises.weebly.com

http://420enterprises.com
Vera Algaert
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2012-05-15 12:01:54 UTC  |  Edited by: Vera Algaert
Gin4 wrote:
so the only solution is to scan the market by myself click after click and calculate the profit for every modules?
There are like 203902390239 of modules, that will be interesting : /

of course not, with a cache reader and a little IGB magic that process can be automated easily.

here's a nice demonstration (limited to Jita prices vs GSF staging systems) of what is possible: http://goonmetrics.com/

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Johnny Frecko
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2012-05-15 12:03:14 UTC
what people normaly do is add the entire market to their quickbar and then just sift through them .
deleting the things you don't need, in an hour or two you can go through the entire market, and check what's worth while.

Also to your point in scanning, markets change. the 20 items you're trading in right now might not be worthwhile in a few days, then what? re-scan the entire market again?

it took me like 20-30 minutes to find the items i want to trade in, and i'm trading in alot of items :)
Vera Algaert
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#7 - 2012-05-15 12:08:59 UTC
the market quickbar is what stupid macro developers use to scan the market (as you can simply navigate it with arrow and enter keys)

IGB Javascript as - for example - used on http://eve-central.com/home/upload_suggest.html is much nicer and EULA compliant.

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Gin4
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#8 - 2012-05-15 16:13:47 UTC
Vera Algaert wrote:
Gin4 wrote:
so the only solution is to scan the market by myself click after click and calculate the profit for every modules?
There are like 203902390239 of modules, that will be interesting : /

of course not, with a cache reader and a little IGB magic that process can be automated easily.

here's a nice demonstration (limited to Jita prices vs GSF staging systems) of what is possible: http://goonmetrics.com/



so is possible to applicate that to jita prices to calculate the % profit on every modules.
is there anyone selling for isk this kind of stuff or not? :)
Because i knew it was possible to do it, i just don't know how
Guardian Stella
Doomheim
#9 - 2012-05-15 19:17:57 UTC
its not the good way to proceed, by doing such a program you will loose lot more time in coding than earning money

better make a orders analysis if you have time