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Market Graphs & Tables Question
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Cryptify
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#1 - 2011-10-07 06:24:37 UTC
I've been looking through the markets a lot recently and I pretty much understand everything I'm seeing with the exception of some odd occurrences that to me just don't seem to make sense.

Certain items seem to consistently have their average be close to equal to that of either the high or the low for the day. The problem with this is that It switches, one day the only price the item will be traded at will be the high and the next or maybe a day or two later it will only be the low and so on. There is a big enough gap to see that the price differences in the high and low are the difference between the item either being sold to an order on the market or bought from one meaning that one day they will only be sold and the next they will only be bought.

Secondly, there are quite a few transfers taking place, hundreds of orders totaling a quantity of hundreds to thousands all together.

From this I just get confused that one day this item is only being sold and then next its only being bought and then back to sold and so on, given the number of orders it just doesn't seem to make sense that it would always been at the high or the low and never somewhere in the middle.

I've seen this on quite a few items now and I don't really know what to make of it. The only thing I can think of is that maybe it's not recording all the data and just filling in the blanks with the little it does collect and causes the information to look the way it does.

I don't know, but any help making sense of this would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
Kethas Protagonist
Protagonist Ventures
#2 - 2011-10-07 07:50:43 UTC
Cryptify wrote:
I've seen this on quite a few items now and I don't really know what to make of it. The only thing I can think of is that maybe it's not recording all the data and just filling in the blanks with the little it does collect and causes the information to look the way it does.


I honestly doubt it. EVE has some faults but given my experience with the market system I'd give it the benefit of the doubt. Let's not assume it's a bug just yet.

Assume it's accurate and that this particular product really does swing wildly from "usually bought from sell orders" to "usually sold to buy orders" and back. What could prompt traders to act like this?

One example I could think of would be a manufacturing material that only comes to market in a slow, relatively steady stream, but is then needed by manufacturers in bulk. The trading on buy orders are station traders stockpiling the material; the trading on sell orders is a manufacturer coming along and buying up several days' worth of incoming supply.

Without knowing the product(s) you have in mind, it's hard to come up with a more specific hypothesis. In general, though, no, I doubt it's a bug.
Cryptify
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#3 - 2011-10-07 14:32:52 UTC
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I never really thought this was a bug I just think there is some aspect that I'm missing to this and was interested in what that might be.

The example you give does somewhat enlighten me to other possibilities, so as I looked through these on a few of the items I did notice that either the buying or selling occurred at a higher volume that the other. However I can't really see it in most of the items.

If anyone could look at them a give their input on what may be occurring and why such things would be happening, it would be very appreciated.