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So far I have taken bonds non-publicly by colleagues, friends and corpmates only, which in the past have been always paid back timely with the promised interest. A recent event that lead again to a corpmate initiating himself the question of an investment into my activities and the fact that it seems I’m getting always out of ISK sooner than what I could invest and turn into a profit, has lead me to thoughts if I should try to initiate a public bond. I have thought long over this, about the pros and cons, before I finally decided to give it a try. Please bear with me, it’s the first time I do it in a public way and I hope I do it all right.


About me and what I do:

I don’t always like to be branded as just a trader, as I have done and do many other things in EVE from time to time too and as many think, trading is just a carebear thing everyone could do (I promise you, the way people like me or better ones do it, it’s not!). But yes, 90% of my time or sometimes up to 100% I’m a trader. And I enjoy what I do. I enjoy opening the market window and looking for opportunities. I enjoy the blinking of my wallet. I enjoy tampering into new areas, doing research regarding ways to make money out of new introduced features and changes and always learn more than I know. There’s more to learn here, than some would ever think it is, as the moment you start working on the market, you learn how others are using the game and its items and many more things about EvE and its people.



How will this bond be used (Business Plan)?

Based on all my experiences, I have developed recently a new strategy, involving very specific items, that I have used over the last week several times successfully to turn small investments into high profits. The volumes in this specific market are actually low compared to other high volume markets and as that the turnaround slower. However, the margins are high and very profitable in itself, while it involves much less continued work than a daytrader’s activities to keep everything up and running. Based on my research, the demand exists and is expected to even raise, while the possibilities for new supply are very limited. The competition is, due to the nature of the items and the over-regional work involved to turn it into a higher profit like I did, limited, I would say for station daytraders to some extent uninteresting.

The specific goods involve a small risk to not be sold sometimes within small timeframes. There is also a small risk involved of having not 100% of the stock re-sold. However, the low volume of the goods and their high profit margins returned by my strategy account widely for this. Even if I would end up with 50% of the stock stuck for some time, the other 50% sold will have made up for large profits already, able to cover easily all interest return on the bond.

To be widely successful in this area, it’s necessary to involve more regions that I actually do. I have researched the regions and monitored them carefully over the last weeks, so I already know what I will do. Profits could be increased further, by putting some control on the supply on the market. To extend my activities in that market to the point described, those things require additional capital though. Since the potential in this turned out to be big, I decided it is worth to fund additional capital, even it means to share some of the wealth with you. That is what I need the capital for and what I will use it for.



Are there risks?

As with any investment, there are always risks. What I do to minimize those risks? I will take the same precautions for the investors’ money, which I’m taking for my own assets to keep them safe. First of all, I don’t take risks in trades that I can’t afford, would I lose on them. When hauling is involved, I have a fleet of several ships, from the smallest and fastest to the largest ones (several freighters) on different locations, that I decide to use depending on the cargo, it’s value and the possible dangers of the route involved to minimize risks.



The Details of Bond ‘Alpha’ (summary):

Bond: 1,500,000,000 (1.5 Billion) ISK

Collateral: None

Interest: 11%, in the case of a worst case scenario a 5% return is still guaranteed

Used for: Trading Activities into a very profitable sector

Starting Date: Launching occurs as soon investors have sent their ISK.

Running Time:
As I’m flying for Christmas to my family and won’t be playing Eve these days, it will run until 22th December. Investments will be returned before Christmas. If for real life reasons I wouldn’t be able to make all returns the day before leaving, I reserve the right to extend it for a week and all returns will be made before New Year.

Did I forget to mention something or do you have questions? If so, please let me know. Also feel free to convo me ingame.

With regards to your skills, I would have traded broker relations to five before margin trading. The benefit in margin trading being at five versus broker relations is: (.75^4-.75^5) = 8% less in escrow versus (0.05%) reduction in costs, which adds up very quickly.

Anyways, I might be willing to invest in this, however, may I get a confirmation from people who have previously lent you money, and more of an explanation as to why they cannot provide this bond?

You are right that it can add up quickly. However it was more beneficial to me, to have less ISK in escrow and larger amounts available for fast turnarounds and the ability of putting more buy orders or higher volumes up. The standings I have gained at stations I trade often have lowered my broker fee to a 0.5% so far already. Further I profitted by training other skills first that gave me higher percentages (perfect refining as example). Broker relations 5 is on my plan to be trained asap though.



I had a longer break from Eve and returned just recently before some weeks, some of those having invested in that time before are unfortunately not playing anymore. However, those that provided me very recently some capital, should have no problem confirming this to you. I just don't wanted to influence anyone's opinion by having friends or corpmates vote for me here. As you asked though for it, I'm gonna ask them to confirm their investment.

If you could collateralize some of the loan, I would be willing to take it at a lower interest rate. This would depend on how much could be collateralized. I would still be willing to invest if you cannot provide collateral, so long as I have reasonable assurance from previous investors.

I'll loan to you, no collateral required. Catch me online or evemail me ingame.

The wall of text won me over.

I'd like to confirm that I have started Ilinea out with a small private investment in this bond when the opportunity was made known to corp.

Lent 50% at 11% ROI, confirming.

Confirming that I've lent 50%

And things are a go =)

I have invested 250M on faith.

Ilinea's bond is a good risk, and I could afford to lose that much or I couldn't even buy and sell myself.

We have the 22nd and it's the time for harvesting :)

The investments of Zions Child and Atreyu Bayne have been just paid back plus the promised return.

Thank you to both, it was a really great help for my business that did bring me a lot forward.

I wish everyone of you a merry christmas.