There is that, but also it means you can be anywhere in the region, and place a buy order originating from anywhere else.

For example, I can be in perimeter sorting out my orders in jita, do 1 jump to Iyen-Oursta and set up buy orders in Dodixie

For a diagram illustrating the purpose of the trading skills for remote orders, see: http://dl.eve-files.com/media/corp/Thoraemond/eve-trading-skills-for-remote-orders-20101217.png.

1. Fly around collecting everything I've bought and sell it at a popular station hub or


Use the minimum order size if it something like minerals. This way a trip is either worth your time moving it, or paying someone else (preferable from my view) to do it for ya.

2. Sell each item at the station it is in?

Depends on what it is. If it is ships, you usually don't need to move them. if you do destroyers and frigs, you will at some point end up picking them up or paying someone to move them. Even at tycoon 5, there's not enough order available to deal with a region or two of frigs all over the place. Best avoided. Low sec and null frigs sell pretty well however.

Ammo - mission hubs, low sec/null sec entry points ... don't need to move those. Same can be said for scripts and the more commonly used modules. Odd ball odds and ends, you'll need a hub.

Minerals, PI, Moon goop - Hub works best but is not 100% true. Just keep in mind, not many people will go out of the way for your special sale of 100 trit you collected in NoOneCares system because you forgot to use a minimum size on your buy order.

As for price the further from the hub, and the more popular the item, the higher you can price it. If you're not at the hub, there is rarely a reason to price below the hub. Some regions are a bit odd though. Knowing the population distribution as it relates to the usefulness of the item will help in some of the more quirky regions.