FW tier 5 is probably a bigger culprit.. I suspect in a bit the Tourney PLEX auction soon will also become a big PLEX spike culprit in a little bit.... how much longer until 700million PLEX?

We don't care what the market allows. We demand CCP's direct interference to curb these anti-proletariat 1% price gougers. The market should serve the people, and not the rich!

Yah... don't thank me yet because the other shoe will drop eventually. What's happening now is the winter "hype" bubble. This thread isn't helping. I expect PLEX to go up in price as people get amped for the next expansion and what we assume will be DUST players coming into the game... but what threads like this do is get everybody speculating... which creates a bubble. Any time people are investing in something they don't intend to consume, the supply and demand equation gets biased towards false demand. PLEX prices are not rising at a natural rate right now. People are speculating and it's moving up at an imbalanced pace. Just be careful Karl. Yes you can make a fortune... but you can just as easily loose one by leveraging in the wrong direction! That said, if you bought your stock at 550 mil / PLEX, I don't think it will ever drop below that again. So GL!

You mean CCP?
I can't figure out why they keep introducing MORE uses for PLEX when that market is already ridiculously inflated.

That's why I don't really speculate in it (PLEX). There's no telling what can happen. You can make a ton of ISK every month just playing swings... but there's so much risk. DUST is a big variable. I'll be the first to admit that despite my speculation, I really have no idea what's actually going to happen with DUST. What if EvE gets a million new nubs in a month or two? It could totally happen. What would happen to the market? No idea. Will they be more likely to buy PLEX and sell it on the market? I would bet so. That could actually crash the PLEX market. Buy things with low volume for a good chance of a win b4 DUST is on TQ... is my wild a** guess on how to invest.

Have 4 accounts. Tough financial month though. Wanted to buy PLEX as I usually do for at least 2 of the accounts.

1.2 Billion for 2 PLEX would wipe me out though.

So, this means 2 accounts are being suspended this month in the next 3 days. Loss for CCP. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

If a 2 1/2 year player like myself cannot make this viable, the entire idea behind PLEX is blown to smithereens.

I believe we've already established some pages ago that it's not just as simple as "supply and demand".

No amount of parroting "SQUAWK SUPPLY AND DEMAND SQUAWK" is going to change that. Sorry, but you're going to have to actually think a little deeper, or if that's too much for you, stop bumping this thread with useless posts.

That's a nice quip, however I never said it wasn't supply and demand, I merely suggested that just parroting supply and demand isn't enough to explain anything and ultimately gets this discussion nowhere. I'm pretty sure you could teach a five year old how to understand the concept of supply and demand, it's pretty pedestrian. I'm more interested in the factors that influence supply and demand, to me that's where the real interesting theories come from.

Nice straw man, though.

Is this FA guy for real? First I didn't even read your post, because, well anything FA has to say is usually not worth the time.

lol.

Fine, I'll bite. You're wrong to assume that the PLEX supply is more or less the same.

CCP has added new sources to take PLEX supply out of the equation (power of 2, resculpt), their PLEX sales haven't been that frequent. Also, a large class of players have come into some serious isk (read: Faction Warfare). A lot of these guys are fueling their FW alt armies with PLEX.

Less people are buying PLEX for real cash and a lot more have the purchasing power to buy PLEX than ever before, thereby driving the supply down. That sounds to me like supply isn't increasing as fast as it was. We don't need a strong uptick in demand, there's simply not enough supply on top of the fact there's more demand. Anyway, at the end of the day I'm not even talking directly about supply and demand, but how factors are affecting each, and that was my original point. That's what's interesting.

A simple equation Value = Demand / Supply is just some number crunch you do after you talk about the important ****. Trying to bat someone around the head with basic math skills is hilarious though.

PS: I haven't even discussed PLEX speculators as well influencing your precious axiom.

Not saying Darth Whatever is right, but the formula you posted is for calculating GDP.

Consumption + investment + government spending + exports - imports = GDP. Not applicable to the price of PLEX.

I took advantage of Power of Two quite a while back. Then I played EVE for several months, and I was gone two weeks ago so I don't know what happened then. Did they come up with a new Power of Two that I'm not aware of?