Market Discussions

Can you teach me all your secrets?

No reason to take them to the grave right?

I'm trying. I just don't want to lose the little money I have on some experiment gone wrong.

Lol, not really secrets but okay.

I'd rather know how the markets work and how competition works, not the top 10 items that will probably change later..

Still trying though, not really waiting for somebody to tell me what to do. The thread was more of a joke ^.^

• Rule/concept 1: when looking for a market, go where the people are. You need a customer base and I'm not necessarily talking about the major hubs;


• Rule/concept 2: have a look at what all the people you've located from point 1 are doing. They'll need 'stuff/items/whatever' to do what they do, so start by stocking what they need - and remember that if they're doing it away from a main hub that they'll often pay a premium;


• Rule/concept 3: there's a whole host of ways to buy the items cheap, but if you locate a suitable area using the two broad points above then you can likely just buy your stock of items from a main market hub and still do extremely well.

Of course there's finer points to getting it so that you've got a mass cash-printing market operation, and of course there's also other ways to approach the market, but start with the above and see how you go.

If you don't mind spending your time in 0.01 wars (sometime against bots), then trading is for you. Otherwise, let's say it's stupidly time consuming and even more boring than mining

I started 2013.07.06 with a 21 day trial + 5 dollar starter pack and was given 100m to play with by a friend on 2013.07.12. This brought me to a total of about 130m, 15m of which I used to outfit a Caracal (I was under the impression I was going to run missions). I then decided to go big - I'd just invest it in the market and make back my money. Note that I had no prior experience with this - I have never traded in EVE, but I did some reading on the eve-uni site about how to read the price history graph and other stuff - honestly most of it's ******* worthless because it's just rich people generalising about how they became rich, but the price history graph stuff, that's gold. You want to read that.

Anyway, it's been like 17 days since I started trading with ~115m and I now have around 900m (no idea how much I ACTUALLY have because I'm a ****** and Margin Trading means I don't know exact amounts). Needless to say, I'm not going to need to pay for the game with money any time soon. You don't need to be a spreadsheet pro or any of that ****, all you need to know is how to read the price history graph, see what the goods are buying/selling for, and evaluate whether it's worth trading in.

Protip: If you're going to dive into the market, be aware that you will make mistakes as you start. I'd highly recommend trading in cheap high volume items to start off, because if you invest 200m into faction items that shift 1 item a day then your entire capital is going to be tied up and useless all because you couldn't read a graph.

I guess the point of this post is "if you want to start trading, just ******* start". Like everything in EVE, so it goes.

The price history graph...

What does it exactly represent? The data of an item in the station you are in? The solar system? The region?


For example, I'm looking at a sabre, and the green bars at the bottom that indicate how many have been sold is about 1 or 2 a day. Is that in the station?

Sinq Laison eveuni classes , loads of the info youre looking .

Also he often buys "ideas" or used to atleast for huge money from creative people some of them were actually great . Anyway thats a start .

Owww screw that , i know nothing about everything and i managed fine . Sure i ain't a trillionaire but also screw that it pays for more then the bills so fine enough.


Trade is not as hard as people make it out to be , at least not the normal trade wich can still net you a good sum of isk , biggest problem is that it does take dedication at the start.
Basically it is utterly boring after a week ... and then when you stick to it it becomes interesting and fun again.Well up until a certain point where you have more then you need where it becomes poinless again and you wonder why the hell your updating your orders one day and just cancel all the orders .

Edit:Offcourse usually the blood flows where it can so you'll find yourself picking up the trade business every now and then.Then after a month or 3 you find out again what the reason was you gave it up in the first place.Quit the trade and after a month or 6 repeat the same process.





I'm allready happy i know how to use my online banking system .....