Market Discussions

I doubt anyone who's still lurking here can tell you anything about anything that you can't find on the old forums.

You can try buying high and selling low. Make up for the difference with volume.

I will have 1b oak to tart. The room I have for trading is seperate from z here. I can run missions ext for standings as needed. I got all day and night. I can be on most anytime.

Also trying to entice someone with 100b + in assets with isk was a bad move - you don't have enough to interest them. Better to play their altruistic tendencies (if they have any)..........

All trade in Eve boils down to one thing, transaction cost. That being, the value added to a good post production and before retail sale - in other words, the middle man. The 'transaction cost' is your profits.

Eve traders provide the basic services of speculation and transportation, both of which contribute to the transaction cost. "Buy Low and sell high" is of course true, but it is also total crap. It doesn't tell you how to buy low and sell high with the goal of increasing transaction cost as much as possible.

So what factors allow you to increase transaction costs - Time and/or distance. How much of that cost you can keep for your self is determined by your trade skills and standings, as pointed out by others.

So let me modify the ol' buy low sell high - buy low there yesterday, sell high tomorrow someplace else. How much distance or time you add is up to you, both have their own opportunity costs and diminishing return - and no one can teach you how to measure those since they are somewhat subjective to your play style and what you can afford to do.

You can do the 0.01 ISK game thing if you want, but you limit your self by not adding the value of time or distance. All the station 0.01 game does is profit from the spread - chump change. Station trading with out adding time or distance is a pure spread play, it also leaves you at the mercy of all the other idiots chasing the spread.

The 0.01 ISK game is for suckers. I'd rather haul something for two hours, dodge a couple of gate camps, sit on it for six months and make a 300% profit than waste my time doing 0.01 games for a paltry 25%.

Not much more to it than that. Also, detach your self from the idea that ISK is wealth. ISK just happens to be the one commodity we consider money.

Options still open, and by no means am I willing to accept this knowlege for free. Seems people these days expect that once something is posted that they want to be given something free. I have been around long enough to know the root of all evil in eve is based around ISK. I am looking to get "Lesson Learned" for a price. I will be working on my faction standings as we speak. Other than that Hit me up!

Some of the biggest isk in my experiece doesn't come from the daily grind of trading, it comes from when they change something in the game. Switching the top end moon mineral from dysprosium to technetium is an example, some people made many billions in the process. When new ships come out the price is very high and you can make a lot of money. Just poke around doing trades to build up your capital and wait for the next patch and be ready when it comes. It doesn't hurt to go on the test servers either to see whats being developed and crunch some numbers on build costs of various things to see whats being changed.

The other thing to count on to make money is that people are lazy, as a general rule. Many would rather buy new Plex from
CCP and sell that, than earn the isk in other ways. You make money off of their sloth and laziness by doing things they don't want to spend the mental energy on.