Market Discussions

Just a random thought about how much time do you spend on patch speculation.

How much time do you go over every letter of a Dev blog to try and work out what others fail to see?

How much time would you spend discussing with others what items would be best and timeframe for holding?

How much time do you spend pondering over when bacon and waffles will be consodered the best commodities to hold in Eve?

32 minutes, 53.2 seconds.

A few minutes here and there. Dev Blogs are fine, they sometimes yield nuggets of info.

You might also watch the various "economic" seminars from Fanfest and, when/if another one is published, the QEN's are damn useful (Quarterly Economic Newsletters).

Plan ahead and, as others have already stated, the time to "get in" on any potential market play is before it becomes "big news" on the Forums.

I do all the reading while on the train to and from work so its a lot of time but not time I have anything better to do with. I think you can invest early or late and the difference is the size of your balls and the reward you get if it pays off. You can invest in a change before ccp has decided to do anything, you can invest in something when ccp has just dropped vague hints, you can invest in something when the dev blogs are out, you can invest when it hits sisi, you can invest the day before the patch. The early the better reward but the luckier you have to be.

About 40 seconds.

The 40 seconds that it takes me to realize that "patch speculation" has nothing to do with patchy the pirate.

I will of course take this in a humourous tone, otherwise that is a scary thought.

Thanks for the replies (and no it was not an attempt to get information about what you are speculating in).

My random thought was around just how much time people are willing to put into a game, especially around the markets side/patch speculation, that it almost makes it feel like a second job.

For my own part i look over what is out there and and try to extrapolate what will occur, though still in the learning phase over just how vast the game is and what the genral mind set is that drives players.

Cheers for the replies so far.

Let me just write that down... though my timing may be too late




Thank you for restoring my faith in the wonderful sarcasm of the Goon nation

I tend to see that devblogs and patch notes are used by the larger players like yourself, more to confirm your own plans are following through nicely or if you may need to tweak them to ensure the outcome you wish for. The majority of us are only catching onto the end of the major movements as opposed to already being in the position to profit from the changes in a greater fashion.

Cheers for the thoughts,

AA

None. That implies a fairly impressive level of arrogance, to believe that you could find something in a dev blog that noone else is going to notice. It's simply about recognizing the potential, before everyone else has jumped on the same bandwagon, or really combining things between different blogs, to come to results that -less- people will have concluded.




This is the QUICKEST way to lose money.
Outside of a very small group of people, none.



Bacon is overrated, a silly fad that will pass in the next few years, when the salt and calorie obsessed, move on to the next product. I say this as someone who thoroughly enjoys beef, pork, poultry, and fish. (wild game can suck it)
Waffles need to stay in the southern united states, so the rest of the world doesn't have to be near them.

Scotty the docking manager is where it's at.

I am logged into my market toons during the keynote. Thats about it. This time, i bought isotopes and liquid ozone. Worked out nicely. If you waited for the devblogs and the following discussion... you missed the initial +75% price jump.