Market Discussions

minimum skills are the one needed for the first four order slots, but you should max broker relations and accounting asap

In game skills... virtually none. My trading alt has less than a 100,000 Skills points (24,250 in trade).

Better in game skills give you better profit options, so they are important. Your profits will be higher, but they are not required.

Amarr

Maybe you aren't bad... just trading the wrong things or trading in the wrong place.

I spent some time in Dodixie trading Faction Crystals.... rough.... I couldn't make it work. I stay out of Jita as it seems to be high volume low margins... I can't do either. I need high margin/low volume. Thus Amarr works for me. My niche.

Your niche is there somewhere.

Nobody's "bad at trading" I think, it's just a matter of dedication. In fact, once you've got your market pinned, it can be as dull as mining. Read this for a start.

Well, to each one his own. I find deep undercuts an annoyance as mundane as belt rats, in fact.

Its not dull at all, trick is to socialize and read what others write here in MD and SCC lounge, you then begin to understand more then just changing prices mindlessly.

there are many different ways to approach trading, just try not to copy others, being original is always the most profitable.

also do your best not to lock yourself into one thing and only one thing, the market likes to take dips back and fourth, you just have to know when to buy into the dips and sell when you think its the right time.

I find myself running missions, doing whatever science and just reading up on what more experienced traders talk about when Im not sitting on one or more of my trader alts doing whatever it is I think I should be doing.