I'm an inter-regional trader in EVE Online. I don't like to use buy orders, so I don't. I only use sell orders.
You see—off in remote systems there are deadspace mods—and other expensive things—for half the normal price. There are space yard sales full of discounted goods waiting to be resold in Jita by some lucky hauler.
This is what I do. I move people's unwanted junk around for ISK. Sometimes phenomenal ISK. Trading in New Eden isn't only about order management... and if it were I wouldn't be trading! I'd be in faction warfare.
Right now I just PLEX one account and trade casually. Not long ago I was flipping mods with 3 accounts; A good day would be 2+ billion ISK. A great flip would mean 600M profit in 3 minutes (only 3 minutes.) I had some of those!
It's not automatic profit though. Every time I ran my data scraping scripts I saw scams. If you're not careful your earned profits go to some other fool! You just have to take the losses and learn. Like cards, sometimes you play optimally and still lose—but you can still come out ahead.
Your worst enemy isn't the scams though. It's you. Until you really learn how to do this it's likely you'll fly around in circles accomplishing very little. It's hard to read most situations even with good data. Even routing your ships wrong will rob you of excellence.
Do you wanna do this? Probably not. As far as trading goes the barrier to entry is pretty high. Other forms of inter-regional trading are also more profitable—especially in the beginning.
If you really want to do this start with an Atron or a Dramiel. You'll want 2 second warp alignment, and get hyperspatials in those rigs. Speed is usually worth more than cargo space. (That's especially true in the beginning.)
Then start learning how to use Google Sheets. =importHTML and =importXML are your friends. Learn how to clean it up—and grab your data from EVE-central's trade finder tool. Then learn how to read it (oh boy.)
From there you need to tirelessly improve your efficiency. Hauling, trading; Every process must be improved... and you have to do it every time you play. Deliberate practice. Invest in your ships and pilots too. Learn everything you can. Nothing will ever be good enough because this is all about incremental gains.
This is shitty ISK until you master it. Still, other inter-regional strategies are likely better money and easier to impliment. If anything learn to scrape for some other strategy (it's huge for any type of trading.)
Fly safe...fly weird. o7
You see—off in remote systems there are deadspace mods—and other expensive things—for half the normal price. There are space yard sales full of discounted goods waiting to be resold in Jita by some lucky hauler.
Moving Crap Around
This is what I do. I move people's unwanted junk around for ISK. Sometimes phenomenal ISK. Trading in New Eden isn't only about order management... and if it were I wouldn't be trading! I'd be in faction warfare.
The ISK
Right now I just PLEX one account and trade casually. Not long ago I was flipping mods with 3 accounts; A good day would be 2+ billion ISK. A great flip would mean 600M profit in 3 minutes (only 3 minutes.) I had some of those!
Your Worst Enemies
It's not automatic profit though. Every time I ran my data scraping scripts I saw scams. If you're not careful your earned profits go to some other fool! You just have to take the losses and learn. Like cards, sometimes you play optimally and still lose—but you can still come out ahead.
Your worst enemy isn't the scams though. It's you. Until you really learn how to do this it's likely you'll fly around in circles accomplishing very little. It's hard to read most situations even with good data. Even routing your ships wrong will rob you of excellence.
It's Tough.
Do you wanna do this? Probably not. As far as trading goes the barrier to entry is pretty high. Other forms of inter-regional trading are also more profitable—especially in the beginning.
You Can Try Though!
If you really want to do this start with an Atron or a Dramiel. You'll want 2 second warp alignment, and get hyperspatials in those rigs. Speed is usually worth more than cargo space. (That's especially true in the beginning.)
Then start learning how to use Google Sheets. =importHTML and =importXML are your friends. Learn how to clean it up—and grab your data from EVE-central's trade finder tool. Then learn how to read it (oh boy.)
From there you need to tirelessly improve your efficiency. Hauling, trading; Every process must be improved... and you have to do it every time you play. Deliberate practice. Invest in your ships and pilots too. Learn everything you can. Nothing will ever be good enough because this is all about incremental gains.
Don't do it for the ISK.
This is shitty ISK until you master it. Still, other inter-regional strategies are likely better money and easier to impliment. If anything learn to scrape for some other strategy (it's huge for any type of trading.)
Fly safe...fly weird. o7
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