Market Discussions

No it does take low-sec with it allways.

Yes you could train one of those transport ships however usually your lowsec price will be so much lower that IF you have enough isk you can just leave that where it is.I usually left it and at a certain point drove up the regional price , then when the competition followed i'd dump all my low-sec stuff on their orders.

Get a copy of the Ombey EVE 2D maps, print your desired region on paper, get a pencil and start putting down numbers (or alternatively, same story with exporting the page as an image and using something like MSPaint) - put a big 0 on all non-highsec systems, a 1 on all systems directly near a 0, then a 2 on all directly near a 1 and so on and so forth until all the map is full.
The numbers you'll see will represent minimum distance to lowsec.

Akita T does it exactly how I do it.

1) All lo-sec systems with a station get marked with a zero.
2) Every system next to an existing number gets the next higher number.
3) Repeat step #2 until you have the entire region filled in (be careful of inter-regional shortcuts)

Then you take the map, figure out where a 5J or 10J radius buy order will intersect with the least amount of low-sec, while also covering the high-sec areas that you want to cover, and make that system your origin point for buy orders.

For instance, in Derelik, the systems of: Tidacha, Alkez, and Agha are all good locations for 5J buy orders. Other regions are a lot harder to get a good fit.

And sometimes, you just accept that 1-5% of your total buy order is going to end up in a lo-sec station. Make sure to buy low and when it piles up, sell it off for a higher price.

As long as you don't trade stuff like Trit or capital parts (huge volume) it's not *that* dramatic to go fetch the stuff in low sec once in a while. Expecially on some items, you can get quite nice deals and discounts over there.