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Barakach
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Posted - 2011.08.25 01:53:00 -
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Assuming Margin Trading V, is there a general rule of thumb for an optimal ratio of buy orders to actual money? I've gotten quite close to bankrupt a few times myself.
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Loraine Gess
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Posted - 2011.08.25 02:26:00 -
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Originally by: Barakach Assuming Margin Trading V, is there a general rule of thumb for an optimal ratio of buy orders to actual money? I've gotten quite close to bankrupt a few times myself.
Maybe you should stop trading, then --------------------
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Quazar Doosan
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Posted - 2011.08.25 03:48:00 -
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LOL... I'm not doing it right, too much money doing nothing. I'd think the answer is to guess how much you'd possibly need until you can sell, then add 20% or so?
And, you wouldn't be bankrupt, just miss the great opportunity... right?
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Serene Python
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Posted - 2011.08.25 05:45:00 -
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It'll take a little time, but with certain items bringing you down passed your liquid isk you can prepare for the future. For future references place small orders at first to see which fills easily and which doesn't and go from there.
Normally when I enter a market I am unsure of I always use small orders and expand from there. So if I'm getting 100 Expanded Cargohold (I don't actually trade this, it's a good item for small time traders/manufactures/probably invention) a day and I can't afford to put 100K buy orders I'll so something like 500-1000 and relist ASAP.
Easy rule of thumb though, always have enough isk to cover the most expensive order you have listed.
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Kayle Boneclaw
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Posted - 2011.08.25 11:40:00 -
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Depends on the items your selling, if your tradeing something that has low profit but buys/sells very quickly like tritanium you need to have alot of the buy orders covered because they will get used quickly.
On the other hand if you have buy orders for slow trade items like faction battleships you know somewon is only going to sell you won at a buy oder say once every 5 days so you only need to have isk available to afford one faction battleship every 5 days.
Obviously this is simplified because you probably have a mix off both but you just need to estimate based on the type of items your selling. If you only have 20% liquid isk and you trade mostly in tritanium then your not gonna make alot of isk :D
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Companion Qube
Minmatar Electron Conservation Inc SRS.
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Posted - 2011.08.25 11:54:00 -
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Over 9000.
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Dane El
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Posted - 2011.08.25 12:38:00 -
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I'm running my isk needed to cover buy orders at about 200% of my typical wallet balance but a large portion of those buy orders are fishing for deals and won't be fulfilled quickly.
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Wyke Mossari
Gallente
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Posted - 2011.08.26 07:50:00 -
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Originally by: Kayle Boneclaw Depends on the items your selling, if your tradeing something that has low profit but buys/sells very quickly like tritanium you need to have alot of the buy orders covered because they will get used quickly.
On the other hand if you have buy orders for slow trade items like faction battleships you know somewon is only going to sell you won at a buy oder say once every 5 days so you only need to have isk available to afford one faction battleship every 5 days.
Obviously this is simplified because you probably have a mix off both but you just need to estimate based on the type of items your selling. If you only have 20% liquid isk and you trade mostly in tritanium then your not gonna make alot of isk :D
This is spot on.
About 2/3rds of my buy orders are slow low ball order which I then aim to turn over quickly on sale side. This means I can keep my ESCROW call ratio quite high and it often hits 600% of my wallet balance when heavily committed such as at the moment. However when markets are busy it often drops to the 100-200% ratio to wallet balance.
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Barakach
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Posted - 2011.08.27 01:20:00 -
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Originally by: Wyke Mossari
Originally by: Kayle Boneclaw Depends on the items your selling, if your tradeing something that has low profit but buys/sells very quickly like tritanium you need to have alot of the buy orders covered because they will get used quickly.
On the other hand if you have buy orders for slow trade items like faction battleships you know somewon is only going to sell you won at a buy oder say once every 5 days so you only need to have isk available to afford one faction battleship every 5 days.
Obviously this is simplified because you probably have a mix off both but you just need to estimate based on the type of items your selling. If you only have 20% liquid isk and you trade mostly in tritanium then your not gonna make alot of isk :D
This is spot on.
About 2/3rds of my buy orders are slow low ball order which I then aim to turn over quickly on sale side. This means I can keep my ESCROW call ratio quite high and it often hits 600% of my wallet balance when heavily committed such as at the moment. However when markets are busy it often drops to the 100-200% ratio to wallet balance.
OK, that's about what I have been seeing. 600mil in my wallet and 2.4bil in buy orders.
Thanks for the response. I just wanted to make sure what I was seeing was at least similar to what others do. Not enough orders and your money is idle, too many orders and you hit zero.
P.S. To the other people, I meant bankrupt as in too many buy orders went through and not enough time to liquidate before work.
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Kara Books
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Posted - 2011.08.27 01:49:00 -
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bout 12 billion is optimal. |
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Sobaan Tuan
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Posted - 2011.08.27 06:04:00 -
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Originally by: Kara Books bout 12 billion is optimal.
tbh this is spot on
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