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Ezri
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Posted - 2005.04.07 16:14:00 -
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Anyone know of any guides to start trading??
I'm having trouble seeing what would be worth trading and what would be a waste of time.
Thanks
Ez.
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Savatage CMA
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Posted - 2005.04.07 16:50:00 -
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No guide I am aware of, however just lok at the market stats. Buy low and sell high. Example goto the market and find trade goods for the station you are in click on tobacco for example. It is selling at the staions for 60.Look at the buy prices find one that is 75 and about 3-4 hops away. If you have a big ship then you will make a good profit. It's really up to you and prices change all the time with supply and demand. Travel how far you want and buy and sell what items you want. I found it to be fairly easy to do and make alot more than I do when I mine. Just depends what I am in the mood to do. Good luck.
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Sleazy Cabbie
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Posted - 2005.04.07 17:39:00 -
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Start off doing mining. You will learn the mineral prices and be able to spot a good deal, and know where to buy/sell.
You can slowly expand this list of trade goods and you will learn the prices.
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Oriella Trikassi
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Posted - 2005.04.07 20:03:00 -
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Try Tradeing 101 on the Market Discussions Forum.
Clue: look at the Market Screens. Stare at them for long hours. They will tell you what other players are doing. Not all of them are hauling Trade Goods between NPC Corps for 10-20% profit. 
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Zoner Diode
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Posted - 2005.04.18 23:55:00 -
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Oh and, if your on the West coast of the US, your going to have a difficult time doing any trading.
Reason is that the markets "reset" at night when the servers are taken down (around 3AM). What happens is that all the sell orders are taken back to their low price, and the buy orders are raised back up to their high price. This happens around noon (I think) back in the UK.
So while your sleeping, the UK players are hapily trading away on a "fresh" market. Eventually they trade out the market, as in the sellers price goes up and the buyers price goes down.
Now you get home from work and the market is all sold out except for some long difficult runs that nobody wants to do.. 
As a West coast USA player, I ask that the market be made "dynamic". In other words, if a place drops it price because demand was satisfied, couldnt it "use up" that demand after a while and be in demand again? Like during the time the servers are up, and not just artificially when the game "resets"?
To be an effective West coast USA trader, your going to need to get up at 5AM after the servers reset in order to compete with the other traders out there.. 
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Amolar
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Posted - 2005.04.19 10:16:00 -
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Count on player lazeness, and learn the manufacturing process.
For example, if a station has a large number of demios's(tech 2 thoraxes)on sale and has a number of tech 2 component buy orders there, chances are that someone is manufacturing the demios there.
With this knowledge you have a number of options:-
1.Get some tech 2 construction components needed for the demios, and put them on sale at the station.You CAN really gouge because Demios manufacturing makes a stupid amount of money
2.The demios needs a basic thorax for manufacture.Purachase a thorax, fly it there, put it on sale for a 30% profit.Watch to see if it is purchased by the lazey demios producer.If it is, keep on doing it.
This is just an example of course, but is the kind of thing you have to watch out for to be a sucesfull trader
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Oriella Trikassi
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Posted - 2005.04.19 17:41:00 -
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 Originally by: Zoner Diode
Reason is that the markets "reset" at night when the servers are taken down (around 3AM). What happens is that all the sell orders are taken back to their low price, and the buy orders are raised back up to their high price.
That used to be the case but it isn't now. NPC prices shift towards their default values at random times. How do I know this? I have trade goods piled up outside NPC Corps on Sell Orders waiting for them to give me a decent price.
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dominta
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Posted - 2005.04.19 20:08:00 -
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I found that antibiotics seem to have the best results. You can often find a large variance in prices within a single system so there's no need to jump. Don't do it too often in one go, you can get caught out cos the buyers prices drop sharply.
Got my first real ship (Imicus) that way. Apart from that, there's mining, or you could go mining or even mine some ore if you get bored. The trading for profit in this game is a bit overrated (That's coming from a UK player).
Most of the stuff you can trade, you'd just end up making a loss every time. Even the high price stuff (Surface Vehicles for example) sells for less than the price you can buy it for so profit is non-existant. 
If you want to trade, go play Elite. At least you could make a profit in that game.
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Seraphin DeAngeluotti
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Posted - 2005.04.27 09:15:00 -
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Originally by: dominta
Most of the stuff you can trade, you'd just end up making a loss every time. Even the high price stuff (Surface Vehicles for example) sells for less than the price you can buy it for so profit is non-existant.
If you want to trade, go play Elite. At least you could make a profit in that game.
Don't trade NPC stuff. Trade items lazy agent runners need. There are a few systems with a lot of agents where a lot of people do agent missions. They don't want to leave that system to buy new toys for their ships or replace lost ships. Buy good named items where they are cheap and bring them to the agent runners and you will be doing good money in no time...
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