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Trading's Easy!
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Goodgodyourface
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2011-11-09 04:38:13 UTC
Wow, this is a surprisingly easy way to make isk, provided you're up to keeping an eye on your orders and undercutting someone by a few cents to get the sale.
Amrah Pserad
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#2 - 2011-11-09 06:20:41 UTC
Don't quite know what to say to this...


Yes?
Abdiel Kavash
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#3 - 2011-11-09 07:32:21 UTC
No?
Companion Qube
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2011-11-09 07:35:09 UTC
Signs point to Yes.
malaire
#5 - 2011-11-09 08:45:40 UTC
I agree. My trading capital was 2.5 bil in July, 10 bil a month ago and over 16 bil now. Cool

Sometimes if something looks too good to be true - it really can be true. Shocked

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Via Shivon
#6 - 2011-11-09 09:23:35 UTC
malaire wrote:
I agree. My trading capital was 2.5 bil in July, 10 bil a month ago and over 16 bil now. Cool

Sometimes if something looks too good to be true - it really can be true. Shocked



and another person had 25b and now has 5b Lol
Jenn Makanen
Doomheim
#7 - 2011-11-09 10:31:49 UTC
Yes. if there aren't too many people trying to get their slice of the cake. Blink

Depends on the type of trading, too.
Via Shivon
#8 - 2011-11-09 12:08:47 UTC
Via Shivon wrote:
malaire wrote:
I agree. My trading capital was 2.5 bil in July, 10 bil a month ago and over 16 bil now. Cool

Sometimes if something looks too good to be true - it really can be true. Shocked



and another person had 25b and now has 5b Lol



the easy sentence for new ppl in trading same as flying ships


dont invest in speculations in the market, if you cant afford to loose the money!
Chevalleis
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2011-11-09 12:34:50 UTC
Trading is easy, ifyou know what you're doing. Otherwise it's hell.
JitaJane
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#10 - 2011-11-09 13:41:12 UTC
Trading is PvP.

90% of of the time my posts are about something I actually find interesting and want to learn more about. Do not be alarmed.

Tiara Sikai
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#11 - 2011-11-09 17:08:37 UTC
Making some money trading is easy. Done it as long as I played.

But really making serious money is not. Orders expire unfilled because you don't update the price every 10 minutes, you sit on a huge stack of something that looked good and totally crashed - having to choose to sell below your own cost and play again, or wait for a magical price hike.

Usually I can extract a little money from the market (enough to fund my habit of losing ships to being stupid), but nowhere near the billions floating around here.
Dane El
Negative Density
#12 - 2011-11-10 12:40:17 UTC  |  Edited by: Dane El
Tiara Sikai wrote:
Making some money trading is easy. Done it as long as I played.

But really making serious money is not. ....


Really? I found it quite easy to scale up as I trained for more order slots and grew my capital available for trading. ROI drops for sure. When I started with 200 - 300 Million it was easy to triple or quadruple that amount every month. I make more like 10% of my invested isk a month these days. But that's significantly higher income than I got from the high maintenance fast turnover trading I did when I started and it's much less demanding.