Market Discussions

The things I like most about market trading are:

• Failing spectacularly. You get to utter loud, colorful expletives and laugh at your folly while learning something new about the game--what's not to love?
• Seeing a slow moving, low priced buy order get filled all at once, and then reaping the profits on a nice margin.
• Selling a bunch of items at the lowest price in quantities of one. I like filling up the market window.
• Discovering a new item or ship with high margins for profit.
• Driving my competition out of the market.
• Learning something new about the market--usually from these forums or from a link to a blog posted to these forums.
• Seeing a swing in my Bank wallet division balance and then poking around in the journal to figure out what happened.
• Low-selling T1 items, ships, and minerals, in order to drive traffic to my corner of the EVE universe, which requires a trip through two lowsec systems.*
• The Sunday night sales rush.
• Giving a random customer his or her money back and thanking them for purchasing from me.
• Generating a consistent, regular profit for my bank customers.

What are yours?


*This gives the noobs, who will poke their unsuspecting-of-danger-noses just about anywhere in lowsec, as well as the budding market traders in Essence, a chance to explore someplace new and gives the local pirates something to shoot at (and good pirates need to be fed often).

The best thing about the markets is when I've finally bought the last fitting module for my pvp ship, only to realise that EVE is boring, so I log off.

I love selling someone a Mackinaw, linking the system and name in miner bumping chat, seeing a kill mail, then seeing the same person buy another Mack.

Then the ganker sells me strip miners and the gankee buys them.

..Great observation!

Some of my favorite parts of trading:

Shipping out billions worth of goods on currier contracts for pennies.

Catching the market on items where there is one order for many units selling for a few .01's above the buy order price. Buying all those units up and relisting then for the current sell order price.

Sending 5b from my Doodixie/ Amarr sellers to my Jita buyer multiple times a day.

Shipping out 10-15 loads of goods to the few trade hubs I operate in multiple times a day.

Looking at my profits on 3rd party tracking sites.

Running out is liquid ISK because there are so many profitable markets to be in. I hate it when it's a struggle to use up all your ISK.

BS'n with the folks in the Hauler's Channel.

Having some of the Hauler's Channel denizens add me as a contact win excellent standings "Because you ship out so many contracts, I want to know when you log in!"

Reimbursing myself from a PvP loss in one update cycle.

Reading Jita local, yeah I'm a nut.

And I can't think of any more.

It's all part of the service, Casey.

..Thanks for reading Konif. Yeah when he said that to me in game, the whole conversation got slightly unintelligible, and very confusing. I'm going to post the final update to the Sphere's of Eden saga here in the next few days.

But as to your question, I personally add up all monies and assets that are flagged to be liquidated when I consider my net worth.

I don't include my personal PvP ships or support ships like my covops' and Orca. But I do like to know about how much ISK I have in personal ships, I just keep that asset list separate.

Thats a godwin, right there.

The joy of trading? Please, we all know its being undercut by 0.01.

Oh wait the REAL joy? Was it undercutting by a large amount so that profits are destroyed and the blinky wallet, yes the blinky wallet is better than the blinky red.

I like this far too much, even when it occurs for trivial amounts.

I had ~500 Light Neutron Blaster II posted in Dodixie over the weekend at around 914k per unit. Saw a wallet notification - someone bought two for 1335k each.

Even though it's a trivial amount of profit (~1m manufacturing profit and ~1m trading profit on that transaction), I still laughed.

You can post 1000 of an item at the best price (say 903k for a magstab II) and 1 of the same item at 9030k, hoping someone clicks the wrong order and buys from right click.