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Nicholas Lafisques
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.12.25 18:39:00 -
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I have just started playing a bout 2 months ago and trading seems to be the best way to make isk. Though I had started with a lot of planetary interaction which got me a descent bit of isk to trade with, I have just about entirely neglected PI in order to focus more on trading.
I think I hit it lucky with my factory planets making wetwork mainframes and organic mortar appliactors after rubicon which gave me a way to make a serious amount of profit with little investment/time. That being said, after starting with nothing a couple months ago I am up to around 10b isk all in all. It certainly required a lot of time doing the .01 isking game, but now I have worked myself up to a point where I can put much less effort into it and make plenty of isk to support just about whatever it is I would like to do.
As other have stated its all about buying and selling at the right time. You are bound to lose/break even on some things, but don't let it discourage you. Even with buys that weren't all that good of an idea, I very rarely lost anything in the process and would usually come out a couple % ahead.
I would strongly suggest training the appropriate skills to reduce tax/broker fee and getting your standings up asap, buy the tags for the data centers once u can afford them. As someone said, u can run missions while you trade, which gives u some isk (though it was rather negligible in my case) and most of all extra standings.
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Nicholas Lafisques
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.12.25 22:54:00 -
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Thermopylaee wrote:
When you're playing the 0.01 ISK game, do you still have a focus on the items, or can you pretty much blanket the market with orders and make decent profit?
In all honesty if ur constantly doing it you could prolly just put a bunch of random bids out there and still profit from it. This would require you to put the items up for sale the second u get them and keep updating the prices until theyre gone. I wouldn't recommend it though.
You're better off checking the graph out for the last couple months to make sure what ur getting is towards the lower end of the price range. Just blanketing the market with a ton of orders makes it all too likely that you will wind up losing on a few of them, which will put a nice dent in profits.
It is always a good idea to start small and make sure the things you are buying are actually sought after. Once you turn over a nice profit on an item a few times then feel free to start dumping more and more into it |
Nicholas Lafisques
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.12.25 23:44:00 -
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sounds like you worked out your self a good system but don't let your own system be the end all, because you profit as lucky as it is now might not be there in 2 month.[/quote]
definitely have that on my mind. been working on getting some new things to bid on over the last few days in order to stabilize my profits and it seems to be going steady as of now... have certainly had a couple scares though. Just have to watch out being too over zealous with any single thing. have ran into that a couple times. And its not so much that I would end up losing isk on any investment, the problem is having my isk tied up in stuff in my hanger so that I cannot capitalize on opportunities that expose themselves
e/ and it turns out I don't know how to quote things haha |
Nicholas Lafisques
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.12.26 17:20:00 -
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Chris Carlyle wrote:Skurja Volpar wrote:...waking up in the morning to find a huge surprise payout when all you've done is sleep, feels, when compared to countless hours of "primary the niarja", like pure distilled ambrosia.. I can't agree more. Nothing beats a big payout in the morning. I think we've pretty much proven that station trading is a viable profession. I did, however, not expect it to be so much fun. You mentioned you have an alt for station trading. Would you recommend using an alt for the trade, instead of a main character?
It really doesn't matter... It's nice to have an alt do it so you can just leave them there. |
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