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Joceline
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2013-03-28 07:21:26 UTC
So I've been getting into trading a bit and the tool I would really like to have, I cant' find. In RL I've been a developer for almost 20 years, so I thought i might just go ahead and create a simple ruby on rails app to do what I want, and open source it.

First, I want to make sure what I'm looking for doesn't actually exist.

What I want is an app where I can pick an item at one station, and see how much profit I would make if I sold it on a specific list of stations (based on their current sell order prices). It needs to automatically figure in my broker fee and transaction tax.

The app would import data using EMDR and your local cache, with local cache data taking precedence.

Mentat comes close to what I want, but it's just not quite there. Hosted solutions won't work because data from EMDR is often either too out of date or incomplete.
Thur Barbek
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2013-03-28 08:31:37 UTC  |  Edited by: Thur Barbek
If you find a way to do this, id be interested in seeing it. My main problem was finding constant up to date data to stick in the spreadsheet/program.
Maru Niffilen
United Trading Organisation
#3 - 2013-03-28 13:59:46 UTC
I would love that because there's no tool for that. Most tools are only for trading on one station. If I could, then I would create such a programm Lol
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
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#4 - 2013-03-28 16:04:54 UTC
It's not a hugely difficult thing to program.

But you'll find it difficult to find someone that's done it. As if you spread that kind of information around, your profit margins dip.

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Rita Jita
Caldari Provisions
#5 - 2013-03-30 01:06:29 UTC  |  Edited by: Rita Jita
Steve Ronuken wrote:
It's not a hugely difficult thing to program.

But you'll find it difficult to find someone that's done it. As if you spread that kind of information around, your profit margins dip.


hehe, well there is defiantly at least one person that has done it.

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empyriosis Bheskagor
Black Crown Society
#6 - 2013-03-30 07:02:11 UTC
Steve Ronuken wrote:
It's not a hugely difficult thing to program.

But you'll find it difficult to find someone that's done it. As if you spread that kind of information around, your profit margins dip.


Agreed. There are probably plenty of private implementations out there.
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
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#7 - 2013-03-30 13:27:09 UTC
Rita Jita wrote:
Steve Ronuken wrote:
It's not a hugely difficult thing to program.

But you'll find it difficult to find someone that's done it. As if you spread that kind of information around, your profit margins dip.


hehe, well there is defiantly at least one person that has done it.



Heh. Only kind of true. I never took it past an endpoint for the unified uploader, a page to call up the market details,plus some SQL. It worked, but it didn't eliminate any scam buy orders, or anything like that. And it was a very limited subset of items I was looking at.

In the end, I stopped doing it, and doing that kind of trading, as it wasn't worth the effort. I guess if I'd honed it, it might have been.

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Deal with IT.
#8 - 2013-03-31 02:26:43 UTC
Joceline wrote:
So I've been getting into trading a bit and the tool I would really like to have, I cant' find. In RL I've been a developer for almost 20 years, so I thought i might just go ahead and create a simple ruby on rails app to do what I want, and open source it.

First, I want to make sure what I'm looking for doesn't actually exist.

What I want is an app where I can pick an item at one station, and see how much profit I would make if I sold it on a specific list of stations (based on their current sell order prices). It needs to automatically figure in my broker fee and transaction tax.

The app would import data using EMDR and your local cache, with local cache data taking precedence.

Mentat comes close to what I want, but it's just not quite there. Hosted solutions won't work because data from EMDR is often either too out of date or incomplete.


+1 support