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Hosto Jadara
Catskull Cartel
Grimskulls
#1 - 2014-07-25 20:37:31 UTC
I'm just getting into trading, and I want to hear your opinions about what item is the best to buy/sell. The only requirement is that the price >20 mill. What item is most easily sold?
Wafflehead
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2014-07-25 21:10:26 UTC
Hosto Jadara wrote:
I'm just getting into trading, and I want to hear your opinions about what item is the best to buy/sell. The only requirement is that the price >20 mill. What item is most easily sold?


You need to learn your own items, if everyone started trading the 'best' item it would no longer be worth trading.
Zappity
New Eden Tank Testing Services
#3 - 2014-07-26 07:13:47 UTC
eve-central and eve-marketdata have item volumes. You can pull them either manually or with api.

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Feinrig
Singular Inc.
#4 - 2014-07-26 08:11:24 UTC
What do you think Hosto Jadara? Have you evaluated some items?
Violett Lai
Little Red Riding Hole
Wolves Amongst Strangers
#5 - 2014-07-26 11:36:48 UTC
haha share your knowledge and we can throw our billions at it so you can directly start looking for new ones.
Hel O'Ween
Men On A Mission
#6 - 2014-07-31 07:01:53 UTC
Hosto Jadara wrote:
I'm just getting into trading, and I want to hear your opinions about what item is the best to buy/sell. The only requirement is that the price >20 mill. What item is most easily sold?


EVE is (mainly) a PvP-orientated game. And although it might not be obvious at first glance, this includes the market, too. Very few players will share their "weapons/fittings" (=profitable items/trading routes/strategies) with their "enemies" (=other traders).

Besides - it all depends on your trading style (station trading, cross-region trading, lazy region wide station trader etc.), for example an item inadequate for station trading in Jita 4-4 might be worth hauling to "the frontlines" (=FW hubs, mission runner hubs).

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Kudos12345
Doomheim
#7 - 2014-07-31 07:16:05 UTC
I would look at item volumes which can quickly be obtained from you market window, as in amounts sold per day, generally I look at the crappiest day on the record (hope for the best prepare for the worst) and price differences between the sold and bought items, by market volumes i also mean the general ISK value of the item traded per day and as I just station trade these days I also use Elinor, but its a useful tool for any trader that has stuff on the market, to quickly measure potential profit and quickly update orders.