Market Discussions

Seems like an issue that gets sorted by downtime. Apparently some of the stuff on market does not find its way back to your wallet/hanger till after DT. It is unlikely that there is a bug and your stuff is gone for good. Even so, you can always petition and get it back, but I would not do that immediately, as there is likely to be another explanation (like above).

I can answer your first question: the thing you are doing wrong is NPC trade. There is such a lot of money to be made trading with other players, that I do not think anyone does NPC trade consistently. I may be wrong, though, as I have very little experience in this aspect of trade, but I still think I am correct in thinking that there are better and easier ways to make money.

About how much the NPC buy order is devalued each time it is placed/renewed.... I have no clue. Have not read anything about it though this discussion may help you.

Player generated content in Eve is always welcome. Personally I think there is need for your service.

The correct place to advertise your service is the Sell Orders forum. This is where you set up shop.

Before you do that, it would be a very good idea to post your plan for this service in Market Discussions (MD). The MD community is likely to give you some useful advice on how to go ahead with the service.

Do not be discouraged by a bit of trolling after you post, as this is how Eve forums are.

As a start: I would like to commission you to design my corp logo. How about 50m advance (after discussing the concept), and 50m on successful completion of the project? If interested please Eve mail me.

So not really a question but Im trying to get into station trading and have some spreadsheets for it but they dont seem to be working or anything, Could someone help me out that has good knoweledge of google doc's spreadsheets, Thanks very much.
(It isnt the normal station trading either its slightly different.)

I'm brand new to Eve, what captured my interest was simply the general banter on PCGamer, I decided to look into it further and found out there is great depth and steeped history within this game. I've started to mine with my character, I really don't know anything but the basics but I've been reading over the forums a bit and saw people talk about IPO's/Shares etc etc, I even see that my corporation has some shares. I'm a part time investor IRL, and have been for 3-4 years now. How in-depth does the market in Eve get? I see there are moving averages and whatnot, but is there an actual/physical stockmarket? Or it is just "plainly" trading "commodities" ? (ships/plans etc etc).

There is no in-game stock market. The "stock market", generally known as the "Secondary Market" is all run via the forums. As a new player you are unlikely to have the money to invest in this, and I would strongly advise to stay away from it till you have hung around the forums for a while and figure out yourself what is going on (there is significant chance of being scammed).

The corporate shares in-game that you found, may be used to hand out dividends. Thus if a corp has 1000 shares and you have 100, when the CEO sends out dividends (via the corp window) you will automatically receive 10% of the money. Theoretically this works well. Practically the issue is that people become inactive or leave the game with the shares still with them. This means that the corp dividend gets sent to an inactive account, and the money is lost (forever). Thus there are few practical uses of these shares, and there has been a demand for the last many years for CCP to sort shares out.

I suggest sticking with the in-game market to start with, which is totally player driven and great fun, and basically involves trading commodities via the market and contracts. Get used to looking at the information in the market details for all the items that you buy/use. Best of luck!

In-game you can only see the market of the region you are in.

The ways around this:
1. Ask in a channel or corp/alliance chat. Players in other regions can help you.
2. Have alts in other regions to check prices.
3. Use eve-central or other such out of game services. Here is the current plex info at eve-central.

Hey Guys I am going to post my daily update of my market and how I do it in detail. I am looking for ways to cut down on travel time, and also if only taking say smaller loads is worth it or if I should wait for full cargo holds. So here it is.

3 Characters:

1x Jita trader (buy orders) 67 possible orders
1x Amarr trader (Sell Orders) 27 possible orders
1x Rens Trader ( Sell Orders)17 possible orders


I will transport every day no matter what I have whether its one stack of 50 or a full Mammoth cargo hold.

I have 3 bil in capital.

I calculate profit between Jita and Amarr. (they are the closest)
then I move my products there with Jita char.

Then before I place anything I then cross check Amarr with Rens
If Rens has better profits then Amarr I save it and make a trip out to rens at the very end. The trip is done with 2 characters if needed
at that point as I do not make as many trips to Rens. Maybe once every 2 days.

The rest gets placed in Amarr

And I rinse and repeat .
*I also play the 0.01 game and have been getting into market manip as well lately.

So please tear what I have apart. I need ideas on what I should do via trade route wise and operation wise.

Lastly when I had 100mil which was my starting capital I made 1 billion in under a week. Now I have issue pushing 20 mil a day. Any ideas?.

Maybe you need to move up a size in your hauler, a mammoth doesn't carry a whole lot, and once you start moving higher value cargos, the T1 industrials are risky to ship around, especially on the Jita-Amarr pipe.

It may be that you need to scale up your operations, the things you were selling when you had 100m isk may not have the daily volume to make you the same margin at your current capital level. Are you scaling up the amount you have involved in buy/sells at any one time?

I usually run fairly close to the limit of my isk, with it being tied up either in buys or sells, as liquid isk is not earning me anything.

Finally, Rens-Amarr is one hell of a long way. I would consider using your Rens trader to look at Hek as well, its 6 jumps between the two hubs :)

Have not found apps yet that do this. Have until now done this in Excel.