The market needs 0.01 iskers otherwise you'd have a market place full of people 'winning' with their razor thin margins.

You can knock us 0.01 iskers all you like but the truth is your trading style only works because we exist, because without us you couldn't trade as you do, but without you we 0.01 iskers would make ever more profit.

Fly safe. o7

That trading style works because people generally won't sell goods below buying price. Accepting thinner margins and under-/over-cutting the competition will get you more sales, regardless whether the other guy is 0.01 isking or not.

Granted, if even a fraction of those 0.01 iskers set out to do arbitrage trading beyond their own station, competition would be a lot stiffer. But as a whole, 0.01 iskers provide no real service to the market.

0.01 isking certainly requires the least intellectual effort. I guess that actually does make it the best trading style for the majority of players.

Time (and minerals) is free, after all.

0.01 isking certainly requires the least intellectual effort. I guess that actually does make it the best trading style for the majority of players.

Time (and minerals) is free, after all.

If you will call eve players stupid, you take away the term we use to describe other mmos players.
So now we need to find a new way to call wow players, can we agree on "degenerate monkeys"? :D

Can the person currently engaged in 0.01 chicanery against my orders in Amarr please cease and desist. It's no longer funny.


Thanks.

What do you think?

I think anyone that has worked in sales and distribution will tell you that high turnover is easier and more valuable than high margin.

My point exactly...so keep calm and .01 zerg every 5 minutes

I think anyone that has worked in sales and distribution will tell you that high turnover is easier and more valuable than high margin.

As i thought, big words with nothing to back them ;)
If we talk seriously, i dont see anything more profitable then .01 rapidly. Im talking station trading only, sure theres other methods, but nothing better then this over time if you focus station only.
If we take the exact number of trades and do your "razor sharp" margins against .01 fight. After a year .01 will have more isk.
What do you think?

But why would you do that? Sit in one station all the time and adjust orders by .01 ISK? That sounds about as fun as solitaire. Actually, solitaire sounds like more fun. Get out and do something fun!

But but i thought defenetion of fun is subjective

Anyway, i update orders 3 times a day- morning, return from work, and before sleep - netting 1 plex in 24 hours. On weekends i update a bit more. Rest of the time i spent on my other chars...

What happened to ".01 zerg every 5 minutes"? That's not updating orders 3 times a day, that's updating them 12 times an hour.

And .01 ISK wars are high margin, not low margin, since the attempt is to outbid by as little as possible, thus preserving the biggest margin possible. I think you missed his point entirely.


But, yeah, the definition of fun is subjective. And if you sit in a station updating orders every five minutes for your EVE career, I do not understand your definition of fun.

Read again, he had no point, only claiming .01 isk is stupid, which was fully discussed
From several angles and to my opinion is wrong.
Mind that all the descussion here is mostly theoretical, so my claim of 0.01 every 5min is as such. What i personally do could be completely different yet im going to defend the .01 tactic anyways..

As for fun, you dont need to understand it, you cant, not until you try

You read it again. He did have a point that he alluded to and you missed it completely. I don't think you understand it from your reply of "my point exactly" since it was not your point at all. No, he didn't tell you exactly what his point was. Nor should he. It's not good business to let everyone know everything.

Personally I don't trade because it's fun, because it's not. I trade because noone ever made their billions by shooting rats.

My point exactly...so keep calm and .01 zerg every 5 minutes

Done arguing about who said what and who understood who and how, its childish, leads nowhere, offtopic, grow. Let the speaker defend his point, he sure doesnt need your help, nor can you claim to understand what he said anymore then me.

See, its stupid, i was referring to a different post

Now that i know what we talk about, i have to tely shortly;
I was talking about the 0.01 process of mantaining 1 buy order at the top of the list, fullfiling it, then resseling at 0.01 isk lower then lowest sell order.
Thats not high turnover? Thats not ".01 isk war"??