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Jarnis McPieksu
Aliastra Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2011.12.07 12:55:00 -
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Too many lazy reaction tower owners not checking calcs, just running towers and dumping output to the market assuming it makes them ISKies like it always has.
Traders could profit from it, but the market volume is still fairly big even if prices are down, so it would require quite a bankroll to vacuum up the at-loss nanotransistors and work up the sell order price to profitability.
Also there can be a delay of weeks for product to enter to market from the time the fuel and materials were purchased. Many view current POS fuel spike temporary due to fuel block thing and POS runners that work off massive (6month+) fuel stockpiles can still make profit as they are not paying today's market price for POS fuel.
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Jarnis McPieksu
Aliastra Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2011.12.07 13:39:00 -
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1b/week is pocket change and once you have run reactions for extended period of time with a large number of towers, it just becomes too much :effort: to double-check things every time you sell. "As long as the corp wallet keeps growing every week, no worries"...
There could also be a glut of of "final loads" by people who took down Gallente towers due to the ice interdiction making Gallente POS fueling very very expensive. If this is the case, once the market chews through these, the price could spike hard (assumption: long term supply dwindled due to people taking reaction towers offline) |
Jarnis McPieksu
Aliastra Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2011.12.07 20:28:00 -
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Mantra Achura wrote:Isn't Tech the main price indicator for nanos and fullerides instead of the POS fuel itself? *confused*
Tech price is not moving. The cartel seems to have set the price at 100k, and it stays within it.
So the major variable is the price of POS fuels (as far as the profitability goes)
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Jarnis McPieksu
Aliastra Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2011.12.08 07:53:00 -
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EvilCheez wrote:Quote:Tech price is not moving. The cartel seems to have set the price at 100k, and it stays within it. Maybe then the price of tech is artificially high - the cartel withholds tech to drive up price, but someone in the cartel has figured they can have their cake and eat it too by dumping the tech they withhold as discounted nanotransistors ( still above the natural market price)?
Sounds like a reasonable theory. If cartel members have a deal on Tech price at the current price point, but no deal regarding Technetium-derived products, it would obviously be beneficial for an alliance in the scheme to manufacture their own Nanotransistors from Technetium rather than selling the goo. It is more :effort: but it does two things...
- You can sell more Technetium as you are selling both to the small-time reaction POS runners and to the T2 manufacturers (in the form of Nanotransistors) - You are pissing into the cereals of other Technetium cartel members - they will sell less Technetium as it is unprofitable to react anything out of it.
Considering that Goons just pissed into the cereals of all reaction tower runners (well, all using Gallente towers), this would be straight up their alley... and could spark some Fun(tm) if Technetium moon holders in the cartel start getting antsy with their goo not selling like it used to while the price is locked to the agreed-upon level. |
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