Market Discussions

Sounds a bit dumb, why interdict in the month with the least miners online?

Don't tell me that goons started looking at price action and want to amplify it.

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They wouldn't even need an interdiction:

1. Organize mining ops for a week or two, keep the topes OR buy a pile before others do
2. Announce a planned interdiction
3. Wait for Jita crowd to go nuts and start stockpiling topes
4. When the price is high enough, sell their stock days before the interdiction is supposed to start
5. PROFIT

Bonus points:

6. Release an email about the interdiction being cancelled
7. Watch Jita traders go crazy shedding tears with all those piles of isotopes

But knowing goons, they would still want blood, so

Extra bonus points:

8. Buy a gazillion of another type of racial isotopes
9. Go for the interdiction in a different racial ice region (chosen in point 8)
10. PROFIT. AGAIN

If the goons are smart, and i believe they are when it comes to mass market manipulation...they will use the terror of the nitrogen ice event to refill their pockets twice.

Lets assume they prepared for this and been stocking up for months. Now under the artificially heightened demand and rising prices, they sell where everyone else buys in panic or speculation. In the meantime, they buy up the other ice products with the profit and when the time comes they announce they are not going to hit the nitrogen supply, but something else.

Net effect is that they ride two profit waves in a short amount of time by simply spreading information they know will alter the market in specific ways. And the nice thing for them is, they still get to have their event, just in another set of regions.

What do others think of this?

PS.

There are a lot of well rounded amounts, very high priced sell orders up...coincidence?

Any manipulation attempt success will be based off the average purchase price of the targeted item before "new" information becomes public. I would not be surprised that stockpiling of cheap ice products has not been going on consistently for over a year now (or more).

Ice was too cheap for too long, anyone with a long-term view and good cash flow would have been crazy not to stockpile ice when people were basically selling it for next to nothing. Fun times ahead!!

Nitrogen to 3000 by the end of the month? Hopefully this will help with procurer sales .

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I don't need, I am already in the market, the more it rises the happier I am.

Here's an old article with the requirement.

http://themittani.com/news/december-site-update-hiring-writers-again
The date is from December 1st, 2012.

We receive a mindboggling number of applications every week ranging from the enticing to the downright intelligible.

You were not enticing.

Can we all just shut up and buy my isotopes?

That is all.

End of message.

Well, like i said. Research requires bodies when you are doing something truly economy impacting.

It is also nice to have just secured the western Oxytopes. So others cannot do the same to us.

It is really nice to be sitting on over a billion isotopes myself.

Goons billions more.

It is like sodomizing a huge conga line of industries out there on a bed of sweet sweet ISK.

Pretty romantic really