Market Discussions

Hello everyone,

I am returing to EvE after a good 9 month of not playing. I mainly played as a trader and used the money to do some other fun / interesting stuff.

Well a little bit about myself. I am station trading in Jita. After reactivating my account with a Plex I was at around 1.3b ISK. After the first two days of playing and getting back into the market I already made a profit of around 150 million, so things are not going to bad (I had some of my old items backed up so I could start right away cause right now I dont have much time to research the market).

Here is what I want to know. I know there are a lot of other ways of trading. Region wide trading or inter region trading. The thing is, when should I start with this and what do I need? I had a second account for a while and did some inter regio trading, but the problem werer the other 400 million to get a plex for the other account, which significantly decreased my overall monthly profit. Also I have to admit I was pretty dumb when doing it.

I know that I would search the market, put up buy orders in Amarr for an item that I can 50% cheaper then in Jita and afterwards put up a sell order in Jita, cause I get 50% more profit there (just an example). But is this really profitable? I mean I would have to transport the stuff around and constantly check on items etc. Is this all really worth doing it? Are there items that do really damn well if I buy them in a remote region and sell them in Jita for example? I am not asking for any items or trade routes, I just want to know, is it profitable and what do I need.

Also what other things / ways of trading are there? I read about BP trading. Which was basically buying the BPs from NPC orders in a station and sell them in a region / empire were the BPs are not sold by NPCs.

If anything changed and I wrote total bullshit, please excuse me, I didnt have the time to check out the changeboard etc.

Greetings!

Is it really necessary to have to char on different accounts?
cant you keep the the other trader on the same account as one of your alt, sure a bit more hassle but it would save you 400Mio.
if you still feel the need to keep them on two separate account. Try to maximize the gain on each account.

Train a freighter char on one, so when you don't have to be on maybe you can do some AFK moving.
Get PI on all the char slots.
And it used to be worth it to have research agents on them also, not sure thou with the new changes that are coming.

As noted above it is *only* worthwhile having a second account if you *need* to have both characters logged in at the same time, if you don't then it isn't worth it.

If you are going inter-regional and are going to pay to have stuff moved then whilst Amarr is the absolute closest to fly to remember that Dodixie is the closest visible alternate market hub at a whole 2 jumps from Jita. If you have your remote skills trained then it's very simple to do this as you can sit on the boundary and just remote trade. - I will also note that you can do the exact same boundary sitting with Jita/Amarr. You can also sort your market orders by location to make it easier to see which is where.