Market Discussions

Hey everybody!

So I've just started station trading and I made about a 10% return on about 10 hours of 0.01 isking with a starting capital of 1 billion. While this is fine and dandy, I'm always looking at how to expand things. I'm curious as to where to go next. I currently dabble in the T2 module market, spread out across about 20 items. How should I expand? Should I broaden my choice in goods sticking to T2 modules but just trade with more of them? Or should I change to some slower moving, higher margin goods like ships?

keep doing what u are doing, its better when u have more isk to throw into more markets

trade what you know, 10% profit is good, coz its not a loss.

You just have to try different things. I wish it was as easy as just telling someone what to do but it really depends on the person. Different items behave differently and it's really up to you to find out what you like. I completely switched my items about 4 times and ended up with about 150 bread and butter items. It's a challenge like most everything else in this game. I personally liked expensive items that didn't move that often and I avoided Jita.

I would stick to what you know and just spread out gradually trying different items, especially ones that way off your radar as it's easy to stay in your comfort zone (but keep your investment low in markets you don't know).

While there are still meta 4 modules that are worth looking at they tend to be the FOTM ones and the glory days of meta 3 and 4 module trading are over due to the progressive effects of Noctis and MTU and salvaging services.

Dont listen to Sabriz Adoudel, he doesnt understand the market. Or he talks crap bc we dont need more competition.

not in this one, guy obvs only posting here to increase exposure for CSM campaign, good thing CSM is meaningless, and all the crap these idiot in game politcians do is just a waste of there own time

on topic OP, how goes trading now?

weekday buy, weekend sell = winner winner chicken dinner, dont be scared if the margins close a little during the week!

"2014-11-24 23:55:03 UTC" Is your initial post for your CSM campaign, so I call your lie on the first. Just as Jerry's is speculation on his part as well. As is politics, I don't mean to partake, but do notice errors and stupidly always speak my opinion.

Edit2: Upon second thought, you were probably referring to in general posting, and not on this particular topic, my apologies.

As for both Sabriz and Jerry's last points though, I do agree, they are good ideas to be thought on.

Edit: To OP, if you've found something that you can do profitably, consider whether it is better to expand on what you already know than expanding to other areas. Sometimes scaling your existing operations can lead to more profits than fighting against what others are already doing.

As long as you don't hold more than a handful of units overnight the long term prospects of a market segment aren't too relevant. All that really matters are the margin today and the prospective margin tomorrow. It's only if you are buying and holding medium to long term that considerations like this come into play.

Start a new bank. Everyone's doing it.