Market Discussions

Hello people, few times now I've seen people post in this forum that past the 10bil mark people have big difficulties making profit with their isk, because they have so much they don't know how to invest it properly??? I've seen people claim you can reach the trillion mark only if you speculate big on the market and I find that hard to believe specially when I've read blogs of people who make 1bil per day by pure station trading not speculating.

So some people claim they start earning slower than faster when they hit bigger cash like 10-15b.

That kind of puzzles me I'm at the 5b mark and via trading I average 250-550m a day(depends if I do it on weekends or not) which is done via station trading for few hours and I even have most of my eggs in few bascets rather than investing in many products which is usually recommended for traders.I can't seem to find what is going to make my earnings slower, because as ones wallet grows he can divercify his cash on many items which in return on theory nets him faster and better income.

So can people share their opinions on the question: Does more money makes more money faster?

The issue is not the rate at which actual ISK profit can be earned, but the return on capital invested. Diminishing returns are what people mostly refer to.

Making 5 billion per month with capital of say 10 billion, is 50% ROI per month. It is unlikley that you can scale that when you have 100 billion, to be able to maintain 50% ROI and make 50 billion in profits per month. Your actual profits might go up but the ROI will likely be lower. There is generally considered to be a glass ceiling at which point ROI drops to a very low rate (unless you are superhuman).

This is the definition of first world problems.

Diversifying into many items also takes more RL time to manage. So, your theory only holds if you are willing to expend more of your RL time to trade in more items.

If you restrict your station trading game time to remain constant, you will find that the growth on your earnings will eventually approach an asymptotic limit, even if you trade in the highest demand items with the largest profit margins.

But, from where you stand now, you are not even close to the limit yet, so don't worry about it.

When you are self employed, you are the upper limit of your profitability. When you employ a system, there is no upper limit. Unfortunately, nobody in EvE is willing to make someone else money in the long run. Not to mention the trust issues.

And with the rate of inflation on the one good that matters averaging at 4% over the last 3 years, things can get difficult.