Market Discussions

look into manufacturing. Look into suplying FW hubs - contact me ingame and I'll give you the perfect system/station.

I'm actually in Dodixie

2000 people in jita, 200 in dodixie. i wonder why it takes stuff longer to move ...

A precious suggestion: trade better, not harder.

I know you. You were that guy saying rockets were terrible based on your own opinion flying crappy meta level fits and argumented about Rockets needing a buff for like 2 months before actually training them to T2 and starting to own with them.

That being said I am not entirely sure if "Market PvP" is for you.

Anyway since you kept it civil so far I will actually read through this thread and throw you a bone. But please refer from making this a similar threadnaught like the Rocket thingie.

EDIT: Okay I have read through it.

You have the following problem:

Again yor skills are probably not up to par compared to your competition. You do not have the trade skills trained that are required to cut your expenses by as much as possible. These are:

Accounting & Broker Relations. These skills reduce the transaction tax when selling an item as well as the broker fees. You should start working towards these skills if you want to be serious on the market.

That being said you need to do your own research on items: You are looking for items that are not worth too much individually but have a nice margin between buy & sell preferrably with not a lot of competition by others. These exist but are hard to find.

Getting buy orders filled in Dixie can be a PITA, hence people often move things from Jita.

Certain items have buy orders fill slowly, others never get sold to buys (look at the history table to check if anything actually goes to buys), whereas some items have a decent amount coming in.

Do a bit of research using the price history table, look for items with a decent volume, and I always go for minimum 10% on high volume items cos I am lazy :p


taking a look at say, Antimatter M in Dixie:

Antimatter M

These are mostly going to sell orders.which means you would have to wait a while for new stuff to come in.

Taking Antimatter S

Antimatter S

Very very very small profit.

Antimatter S History

Very rarely going to buy orders (check the low price, and average)

This. At least when you are starting out.

I made my first 10B region trading faction and T2 ammo between Jita, Amarr and Dodixie. The hard part is identifying which items to buy and where/when to sell them.

If you can't figure it out after this then I strongly recommend you don't bother. People are not going to hold your hand on this topic for obvious reasons.

1. You want a spreadsheet or database with a typeID and typeName list
2. Google docs importxml
3. eve-central or evemarketdata API

Quit playing with meta 0

When placing buy orders for meta 0, make sure producers would want to sell to you.
Much of meta 0 has slim to 0 build margins (Thanks to minerals I mine are free people)

Meta 0 is also not very much used, apart from for modules which have a high requirement for T2 variant, or no meta 1-4 variant.

Get your Accounting and Broker relations up to at least 4. Margin trading is handy for placing your buy orders. The other relevant skills for station trading are the ones which increase the number of orders you can have.

Whenever I start a new char, I suffer from the "OMG Need moar orders" initially, and then as the ISK increases, I reduce the number I use, but, when starting out, you can never have enough orders going.

T2 ammo in dixie can indeed be a crazy ride :)

It depends on shipping in from Jita, and weekend producers coming off the long ammo-building cycles make the prices fall (and rise) very rapidly