Market Discussions

Hello Marketeers!

I have recently acquired about 30 bil in liquid isk, and am interested in growing it. I've been playing Eve for about 4 years now. I used to be into PVP and PVE, but RL has restricted my availability significantly and I recently moved into a new apartment with terrible internet, so I see this as the perfect opportunity to get my feet wet in the market, something i've been interested in doing for a long time.

My internet speed is so bad that I regularly DC just sitting in station and grid takes forever to load when I undock, so unfortunately both PVP and PVE are off the table at this point. This is my only active account at the present time, and he used to be a Booster and JF alt to support my other accounts, so he has no standings, industry or market skills as of yet.

The way I look at it my options are basically limited to station trading and maybe research or something of that nature at an NPC station or a POS, if I can manage to set one up. But I've also never had this much isk in the wallet and am not sure where a safe place to start might be. I've been playing the .01 isk game in Amarr for a while but I find it boring and I'd love to get some other opinions or ideas that might suit me and my current circumstances.

Beating my own horse here but invest in Quafe. They were recently re-released during Frostfell (is that still ongong btw?) and price dropped from 20 mil to 5-6mil, now 8-9 mil. Could go back a little again, but then they will slowly grow in value.

You can also look at things that are sold in small quantities, like very expensive implants or ships. You can often make profits of 30-50% each time you sell one if you are patient (assuming you are in Jita). Maybe that is more interesting for you than 0.01 isking.

It looks like you have the time and desire, my advice is to start reading. Read everything you can get your hands on and you'll see pieces of information being said over and over again...both the good and the bad. Build yourself a foundation of knowledge and then apply it to the markets, it'll work out well in the end.

There are some gems hidden away in these forums. They're tough to find and you'll learn a ton along the way.

Hi,

I personally have really enjoyed the production side of things; I have had good luck there. However, it does take a few months of skill training to do a lot of it and requires several characters to make it really worth while. You also have a lot of spreadsheets usually of how much various items cost to build based on several ME values. It is though pretty easy once you get going and doesn't require much time to run efficiently.

If you don't want to train several toons then trading is your best bet.

Hope that helps you.

^ Even more expensive than that, you may want to try market manipulation. It can be a bit of a risk, but you can minimize the risk once you learn what you are doing.

Market manipulation involves monopolizing one or items in a market (or in the entire universe), and increasing the price as you see fit.

Or, you may want to just stick to regional and interregional trading. It's actually lots of fun, and you don't have to play the .01 game, which gets boring REALLY fast.

Do you happen to selling some in Jita right now?

If you did not aquire that money from trading then you should probably stay out of the speculation market, this will be nothing but a gamble without expenrience.

Perhaps, but the expected value is very good if you know what you're doing.

Exactly, every purchase is a risk but (if you do low risk trading) the losses are pretty rare.

The worst you usually get burned is if you are trading in a module used in null doctrine fleets and the doctrine in question is retired. Even then you can usually find someone else to take most of the loss (just dump on a buy order)

Give it water ...