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Cyclical nature of Eve market, is it a problem?
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Lioso Cadelanne
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2013-03-23 06:23:46 UTC
Eve markets are cyclical; the price history graph is evidence of that. What I'm wondering is if there are any sort of problems that result from it? The biggest problem would be a loss in profits but one can simply switch manufactured/traded products. Is there any reason to try to curb this cyclical nature?
Death ToU
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2013-03-23 07:29:34 UTC
Or you can use the cycles to get away from the dreaded .1isking and set your buy and sell order to cover the cycles. Make more isk with less updated orders, but you will be holding product waiting for the up cycle.
Lux Imperator
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#3 - 2013-03-23 08:16:51 UTC
Everything in nature is cycling so I think that this behavior is as normal as it can be.
Also if history taught us something is not to try and **** with the cycle or you might get burnt ( bitten, drown, frozen etc.. )

So yeah Cool
Vaerah Vahrokha
Vahrokh Consulting
#4 - 2013-03-23 08:46:36 UTC  |  Edited by: Vaerah Vahrokha
Lioso Cadelanne wrote:
Eve markets are cyclical; the price history graph is evidence of that. What I'm wondering is if there are any sort of problems that result from it? The biggest problem would be a loss in profits but one can simply switch manufactured/traded products. Is there any reason to try to curb this cyclical nature?


Markets create swings, it's inside their deepest nature to do so.

Swings are price's perpetual corrections to hit the exact supply / demand optimum balance.

That balance is ever-moving (the process is called "price discovery").

Imagine you are playing one of those old video games with a plastic machine gun mounted on the video game box.

You see a crosshair on the screen and have to shoot some moving guys. You fire and "lead" the bullets to them and you see bullets trajectory forming a certain shape. Often times those guys move and often times you overshoot or miss them because you did not aim quick or precisely enough.

Markets do the same, price is the crosshair, the demand vs supply (and greed vs fear) balance is the quick, feinting, ever moving target; the moving guys are the market participants themselves through their orders.

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Death ToU
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2013-03-23 09:57:52 UTC
I'm now getting my NES out of the garage to play Duck Hunt!! Quack!!
Caelis Boirelle
Aurora Investments
#6 - 2013-03-23 13:23:28 UTC
Lioso Cadelanne wrote:
Eve markets are cyclical; the price history graph is evidence of that. What I'm wondering is if there are any sort of problems that result from it? The biggest problem would be a loss in profits but one can simply switch manufactured/traded products. Is there any reason to try to curb this cyclical nature?


If you understand how something works, you can always come up with ways to take advantage of it.

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Tul Breetai
Impromptu Asset Requisition
#7 - 2013-03-23 15:08:50 UTC
Wet nature of water, is it a problem?

wtf is this, take your daughter to work day?

There's nothing worse than an EVE player, generally considered to be top of the food chain in the MMO world, that cannot smacktalk with wit and coherency.
Lioso Cadelanne
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2013-03-23 15:12:16 UTC
Tul Breetai wrote:
wtf is this, take your daughter to work day?


Take your daughter to work day... what?
Alex Grison
Grison Universal
#9 - 2013-03-23 15:46:52 UTC
Tul Breetai wrote:
Wet nature of water, is it a problem?

wtf is this, take your daughter to work day?



This just in, scientists discover that water itself is the part of water that makes things wet upon contact.

Details at 6

yes
Lux Imperator
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#10 - 2013-03-23 16:17:36 UTC
Tul Breetai wrote:
Wet nature of water, is it a problem?

wtf is this, take your daughter to work day?



Wow, this was totally random Shocked

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Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
Vote Steve Ronuken for CSM
#11 - 2013-03-23 23:06:46 UTC
Tul Breetai wrote:
Wet nature of water, is it a problem?

wtf is this, take your daughter to work day?



Just watch out for the potato batteries. Oh, and the neurotoxin.

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Daniel Plain
Doomheim
#12 - 2013-03-24 03:27:58 UTC
Steve Ronuken wrote:
Tul Breetai wrote:
Wet nature of water, is it a problem?

wtf is this, take your daughter to work day?



Just watch out for the potato batteries. Oh, and the neurotoxin.

it's always the neurotoxin that gets you.... space!

I should buy an Ishtar.