Market Discussions

ammo? if you start with 5k you're pretty limited.

While starting with 5k and no standing may not be the fastest way to get money, you forget one thing: fun.
It's like using a ship you mined and built, maybe not very efficient but more rewarding.
Moreover, chances are that he doesn't even need money thanks to his main and is just looking for a challenge rather than money.

Agree with most of what has been said here about standings and skills. I will make an addendum. Threee toons to an account means that taking the 2 zero skills off of your main and parking them in trade hubs is good for a quick peek at the market (how did you think I got the name 'JitaJane' anyway?). To explain why 5k starting capital is a bad idea let me give you a scenario. You see a buy/sell (direct profit) inequality between 2 trade hubs. It yields a 12% return for a 20 minute trip. If you invest 100K isk you make 12K profit. If you invest 500M isk you make 60 million in 20 minutes. These are random numbers for a random product and we are not considering standings/tax questions covered above. The thing is unless you find a sweetheart of a deal which is usually blind luck you will earn on margins. So you want it to be the margin of a large whole number. Ah and get good with spreadsheets. I'm a Google Docs kind of gal but a lot of folks use Open or Excel...

If you are low on ISK, then the margin trade skill might be for you (yes, it´s not only for scamming). Of course, that skillbook itself is not exactly cheap....

Other than that, I found the more you engage in those 0.01 ISK wars to constantly stay on top of the queue, the quicker the cash comes rolling in, though I guess that is more important in trade hubs than in some backwater system where there is little or no competition.

Watch, read, listen, learn. Then the market will release it's iskie goodness.

Seriously though I started out with not much more then what you have. I also sat in a frigate with a passive scanner and cargo scanner to see what was moving in and out f Jita 4-4. Next just keep an eye on what was being talked about here and in the other forums. The other things you are going to have to make your own mistakes and learn from them.

You have only 5000 ISK?

Are you joking?

If you are not joking, then how possibly did you get there?

Only completed tutorial missions give about 12 millions of ISK into the wallet, lol...

We need to start some kind of "sucky sucky I petition my brokers fees ****-up longtime" alliance.

This is a cool concept, I like the idea of starting from a dead stop. Keep us updated!

Post 1000 ammo at a time, sell off all 5000 units of ammo.

then post 1000 ammo buy orders for assorted ammo of say 5-8 types.

then sell off that ammo once the orders are filled, at that point you should have enough ISK to buy 10K-25K of the ammo you started with.

Now move into 10-20 different items, with small quantity orders, remember, Diversify to as many different items as possible for maximum exposure ( more different items means more of it gets filled)

in 1 month you should have about, 5-10M to play with, Keep doing it, small orders for as many different items as possible, as your wallet goes up, so should the value of the items you are trading go up.


I highly advise you start at the 50M mark if you don't know what you are doing, but if you kinda know what to do then go head and plop 600M and take it slow till you see progress, be patient while you learn!

I started off doing something like that, and now have maybe 9 billion ISK liquid and maybe 15B isk worth. (notice the age of my character, not even 5 months old)