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Adabelle Dovahkiin
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
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Posted - 2011.12.11 04:13:00 -
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So after about 4 days of intense trading in Jita I have doubled my 400m isk investment, and I'm closing in on the 900m mark as I'm writing this post. While I myself am impressed with how successful this venture has been thus far, I've grown quite tired of the constant .01 isk war. I was wondering whether there is a secret technique to spend less time babysitting orders so I can spend my time elsewhere. Obviously not wanting to start botting, that would take the fun out of it for me. I have read claims of people making billions a day while only logging in once or twice a day. To me this seems unreal, but it might be because I don't have the skills to handle more than 45 orders yet.
Also wondering which is more profitable between region and station trading, based on experience if you have any.
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Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
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Posted - 2011.12.11 04:33:00 -
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Making billions is probably possible. However the investment involved is a /lot/ higher. It's all about percentages.
Station trading can make a high percentage turnover, but you're going to have a lot of headaches managing it.
Region trading has a lower margin. But it's a lot easier on the nerves, with a couple of updates a day. Just a longer trip.
The risks are still there. But with region trading, you can get away with holding stock for longer. |
Hippy07
Tyrannis Developments
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Posted - 2011.12.11 05:27:00 -
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Making billions a day is very possible it is just a matter of how much NIC you have to invest with and how much you want to risk.
as far as the .01 war just be patient. Post your item and update the price a few times a day. unless you are selling very low volume items you do not necessarily need to be #1 on the list to sell your items. People come along and buy items in bulk all the time. Especially on the weekends. |
Jas Dor
Republic University Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2011.12.11 06:12:00 -
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Train the daytrading skill and babysit your orders while missioning or mining. |
Father Touchee
Royal Amarr Institute Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2011.12.11 07:34:00 -
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Jas Dor wrote:Train the daytrading skill and babysit your orders while missioning or mining.
0.01 games are more fun than either of those activities. |
Shizuken
Venerated Stars
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Posted - 2011.12.11 09:49:00 -
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Adabelle Dovahkiin wrote: While I myself am impressed with how successful this venture has been thus far, I've grown quite tired of the constant .01 isk war. I was wondering whether there is a secret technique to spend less time babysitting orders so I can spend my time elsewhere.
When you undercut them do it by several million and not just a few cents. Often times they will then either wait for yours to sell so the price will go back up, or they will buy yours... This has worked for me quite well. You don't make as much profit but you still make money. |
Alisarina
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2011.12.11 11:21:00 -
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it depends on how much profit you are wanting to make. If you just want SOME profit to turn back into something that is a better investment sell at a larger chunk under the next lowest and watch it fly off the shelf and able to be re-invested.
If you want maximum profit fior your products, sadly you have to play some of the 0.01 isk games which can be a drag but it's all about profits in the end.
You can go between either of these extremes, just make sure your atleast making some profit. If you don't want to constantly baby sit orders also think about not doing it in Jita, go to some of the other trade hubs and try it out there. Stuff will not sell as fast but you will be able to get away with not bothering with the 0.01 isk games as much and you can do more entertaining things like ship spinning or reading forums/a book or whatever. |
Mantra Achura
Community for Justice BricK sQuAD.
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Posted - 2011.12.11 12:43:00 -
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You definitely earn more money with the 0.01 ISK game in fast trading, but you can make a decent profit with the daily and medium term price fluctuations too, thus updating prices once a day, even in Jita is still ok.
General rule: The more competition, the stronger the price trend due to overbidding or undercutting. Late EU time with the most active trading accounts is a great example. Prices are recovering later on.
One example: I'm active EU tz trader. If prices are decreasing too fast I start buying via buy orders and put some sell orders where I expect the price will bounce back to in AUSI tz. The same is applicable in medium time range. Always continue to think a step forward how price will develop instead of just reacting to the market.
You can be sure in most cases that, if price trends are too strong than price will bounce hard in the near future. Thats always a good hint.
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Ilinea
Jovian Labs Jovian Enterprises
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Posted - 2011.12.11 23:44:00 -
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Adabelle Dovahkiin wrote:So... I've grown quite tired of the constant .01 isk war. I was wondering whether there is a secret technique to spend less time babysitting orders so I can spend my time elsewhere. Obviously not wanting to start botting, that would take the fun out of it for me.
That is one of the reasons why I have settled outside of Jita. If you have no fun doing it, you will burn out very fast, as have many Jita traders and this will lead you either to start botting or stop playing alltogether.
You hear often, other hubs are much slower. This is kind of true, but this doesn't mean you can't make there profit. The contrary is true, you can find opportunities in other hubs to sell items for much higher than you ever could in Jita. You also will have to compete much less with extreme 0.01-wars and bots. Another hub might suit your playstyle and the time you can or want to invest constantly better.
I'm still including Jita in my business, but only for specific activities that require me to stay there just short.
They told me to mine... and I started to mine, the market ;) |
David Forge
Forge Enterprises
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Posted - 2011.12.12 00:44:00 -
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The only thing Jita has going for it is high turnover. The competition is fierce and the margins are lousy. Settling down in a slightly quieter hub is preferable by far, at least in my opinion. You make only slightly fewer ISK at a slightly slower rate but per unit of effort you're getting a much better return. |
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Selinate
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Posted - 2011.12.12 06:29:00 -
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David Forge wrote:The only thing Jita has going for it is high turnover. The competition is fierce and the margins are lousy. Settling down in a slightly quieter hub is preferable by far, at least in my opinion. You make only slightly fewer ISK at a slightly slower rate but per unit of effort you're getting a much better return.
I might move out of Jita soon... I'm getting a bit tired of all the little asswipes who bid 0.1 isk above me.
I try to bid 100k above them every time, eventually they seem to just wait for me to get my buy order then continue on with their lousy 0.1 isk... |
Shizuken
Venerated Stars
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Posted - 2011.12.12 06:42:00 -
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Selinate wrote:
I might move out of Jita soon... I'm getting a bit tired of all the little asswipes who bid 0.1 isk above me. .
All I do there is fill buy orders when the price is favorable. |
Mu-Shi Ai
The Chrysalis Group
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Posted - 2011.12.12 14:14:00 -
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It's always been my feeling that Jita is best for two times in a trader's career, the very beginning and the end-game. Young traders can benefit from the fact that they typically don't have a ton of orders to look at (a limitation of both skill points and capital), in combination with the insane turnover. It's an ideal setting to turn your money around fast and easy. And then there's the end-game, where you have X billions saved up, burning a hole in your wallet because whatever trade routine you're running can't possibly sop it all up and put it to good use. At this point, you'll likely find yourself returning to Jita to engage in longer-term investments. You look at the charts, observe the market, try to find items that appear to be in a price dip. Buy massive amounts of those items (this is where the gigantic bankroll comes in) and then wait for them to go up in price. Dump accordingly. Or you can do short-term manipulations and things of that nature.
But in between, it's probably best to leave Jita and strike out into new territory. You could do the hauling thing, of course. But if the station is where you feel most comfortable, then you'll really be able to put all those Trade skills to the test with some region-wide station trading. You'll want to have Marketing and Daytrading up to 4. You'll also want to have a ton of orders, probably up to at least 2 levels of Tycoon.
In my opinion, the key in choosing a location is to look for an off-hub region. If there's a major trade hub in the region (i.e. Jita, Dodixie, etc), then you'll tend to find that that hub station works like a sponge and that everything gravitates toward it in a way that's not so fabulous for region-wide station trading. So you find a system that has several highly active systems, but no major hub. Check the map to find such systems. Within the region, you'll want to position yourself so you're as much in the center of all those systems as possible (if you've got Marketing and Daytrading maxed, or no system will ever be more than 20 jumps from you, ignore that part).
Then what you do is you check the market in the entire region, and you find your items, as usual. What you'll notice is that the margins are much, much higher in off-hub regions. It's not difficult to find items where you can sell off what you buy for over 100% profit. The trade-off is a reduced rate of turnover. Choose somewhere between 20 and 30 items to place buy orders for. When you place your buy orders, place them region-wide so goods will pour in from every station.
Your assets window will be very important with this kind of trading scheme, so keep it open all the time. The way I do it is I check my assets window once or twice a day, looking for entries for products that have accumulated 3 or more units in a given station. When I see 3 or more units of an item stacked up, I put them up for sale remotely at the station where they're located (this is why you need Marketing trained up).
It can seem kind of intimidating to have all these goods flung all over the region, but as long as you've got the skills, you'll soon find that you're very much in control of the situation. You're sitting at a station whose individual market traffic is very little compared to a place like Jita, or even one of the lesser trade hubs. But you're leveraging more than that one station. You've got an entire region at your fingertips, and money is going out and streaming in from dozens of different sources.
The key with this system is to focus most of your effort to keeping your buy orders on top. I check twice a day, or maybe three times depending on whether I've got time to kill IRL or not. You may have 305 orders filled up with stuff, but it's those 20 to 30 buy orders that are the key, because they are your lifeblood. The sell orders will be snapped up eventually. You can check those on a weekly basis if you want to, maybe when you have extra time on the weekend (once you get a sense of things, you'll be able to breeze through sell orders in a matter of 20 minutes maybe). But if the buy orders aren't flowing because you've been knocked down a few spots by other traders (it does happen, just with not as much frequency as in Jita), that could seriously mess with your mojo. So keep an eye on the buy orders at least daily, I'd recommend once in the morning and once before you go to bed. And that's super-fast, too. Not a burden at all.
I'd say that maybe the ideal bankroll to have for this sort of set-up, just when you're beginning, would be maybe in the neighborhood of 1-2bn ISK. With region-wide trading, you will be building up and relying on a constant back inventory, so you'll necessarily always have some of your money, perhaps a large part of it even, tied up in that. Jita is typically good for at least the first billion ISK, in my experience anyway. After that, the .01 ISK grind seems to stop paying great dividends. So once you've got that much (and the skill points), I'd give region-wide trading a go. |
Boris Ginnungagap
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2011.12.12 21:28:00 -
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You can do trading in Jita 4-4 by just taking that 15 minutes per day. The key is to predict where markets are going. Also gather up stack when you think that some items are undervalued.
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Joe For Sale
Imperial Academy Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2011.12.12 22:16:00 -
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Nice post. I would also add that noting chronic shortages in adjacent regions can make for another rather laid-back approach. I like to have a relatively centralized station in off-hub regions to collect value goods for contract shipping elsewhere. It sometimes takes a few days for the order to fill and the contract to be taken up, but the margins can be great. |
Mu-Shi Ai
The Chrysalis Group
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Posted - 2011.12.13 00:47:00 -
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Joe For Sale wrote:Nice post. I would also add that noting chronic shortages in adjacent regions can make for another rather laid-back approach. I like to have a relatively centralized station in off-hub regions to collect value goods for contract shipping elsewhere. It sometimes takes a few days for the order to fill and the contract to be taken up, but the margins can be great.
I agree completely. Though I don't do this myself, I could see the value in choosing an off-hub region that is next to a region with a major hub. Especially if you can get to that other region in a few jumps or less to do some quick market comparisons. |
Adabelle Dovahkiin
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
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Posted - 2011.12.13 03:03:00 -
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Mu-Shi Ai wrote:Bla bla bla
As I just started this char I don't have the skills to handle more than 54 orders, nor the skills to sell / buy items remotely. But once I do I think I'll try it. Seems like a way more time efficient method than jita :P. I guess the volume is a bit less or the same as in Jita since it's an entire region and not a single station you'd be handling, would you say this is true about most items? |
Mu-Shi Ai
The Chrysalis Group
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Posted - 2011.12.13 06:08:00 -
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Adabelle Dovahkiin wrote:I guess the volume is a bit less or the same as in Jita since it's an entire region and not a single station you'd be handling, would you say this is true about most items?
It really depends on the item as well as the region. I'd say that, more often than not, you're looking at less overall movement than Jita, even with buy orders that hit the entire region. But at the same time, you've got a lot less competition to keep your buy orders on top, and margins are a lot higher than in Jita. This is also why it pays to have a lot of orders at your disposal before you do this kind of trading method. You make up for lower movement by targeting a larger pool of items. I'm currently trading 28 of them, which is more than I typically did in Jita. But when you have 200-something orders (I'm maxed out at 305 now), using 28 for buy orders doesn't make too bad a dent in your sales capacity.
So, TL;DR ... don't expect to get the same movement as Jita region-wide. You compensate for that loss in trading velocity by a) trading in more individual items and b) getting a higher profit margin when you sell them. |
Adabelle Dovahkiin
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
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Posted - 2011.12.13 06:30:00 -
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Awesome, thanks for the answers guys (Especially you Mu-Shi Ai <3). Guess I'll give region trading a go when I have the skills for it... Which will probably be in a month or two. :( Should probably get a +5 social implant... |
Korneeleeus Kontrapshun
Luminaire Trading Company
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Posted - 2011.12.13 20:27:00 -
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This trading post is certainly spot on, however I will add a couple cents for the folks that don't like sell orders outstanding.
I use Jita for selling my goods only, but i check the buying prices and adjust my away from Jita / Dodixie region buy orders with enough profit 30 percent or greater , so that I can load up my hauler alt and run to Jita for instant sells to waiting buy orders. Since Jita is so competitive, the buy price is always higher. You just have to manually jump to these pirate invested hubs.
Yes, it's work, but it's easy afk type of pickups, with one big watch your butt drop off. |
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Mu-Shi Ai
The Chrysalis Group
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Posted - 2011.12.14 00:00:00 -
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Korneeleeus Kontrapshun wrote:This trading post is certainly spot on, however I will add a couple cents for the folks that don't like sell orders outstanding.
I use Jita for selling my goods only, but i check the buying prices and adjust my away from Jita / Dodixie region buy orders with enough profit 30 percent or greater , so that I can load up my hauler alt and run to Jita for instant sells to waiting buy orders. Since Jita is so competitive, the buy price is always higher. You just have to manually jump to these pirate invested hubs.
Yes, it's work, but it's easy afk type of pickups, with one big watch your butt drop off.
This is really solid advice, and could be of good use to somebody using the region-wide trading system I talked about earlier. You do end up with a lot of ... detritus ... scattered throughout the region, single units in systems that nobody really visits, etc. If it ever got the point where you needed to do some clean-up, collecting the whole lot with a hauler alt and shipping them over to Jita for a quick sell to buy orders might be a very effective means of doing so. Just have to make sure to check Jita prices beforehand. |
Selinate
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Posted - 2011.12.14 07:31:00 -
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Mu-Shi Ai wrote:Korneeleeus Kontrapshun wrote:This trading post is certainly spot on, however I will add a couple cents for the folks that don't like sell orders outstanding.
I use Jita for selling my goods only, but i check the buying prices and adjust my away from Jita / Dodixie region buy orders with enough profit 30 percent or greater , so that I can load up my hauler alt and run to Jita for instant sells to waiting buy orders. Since Jita is so competitive, the buy price is always higher. You just have to manually jump to these pirate invested hubs.
Yes, it's work, but it's easy afk type of pickups, with one big watch your butt drop off. This is really solid advice, and could be of good use to somebody using the region-wide trading system I talked about earlier. You do end up with a lot of ... detritus ... scattered throughout the region, single units in systems that nobody really visits, etc. If it ever got the point where you needed to do some clean-up, collecting the whole lot with a hauler alt and shipping them over to Jita for a quick sell to buy orders might be a very effective means of doing so. Just have to make sure to check Jita prices beforehand.
I assume for the goods that show up in low sec systems, you have a cloaky hauler or something of the likes to get through these systems safely?
This was always my main concern with region-wide trading, that I'd have goods pop up in low sec and be unable to get them out safely. |
Baljos Arnjak
Dark Praetorian Order
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Posted - 2011.12.14 12:01:00 -
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Selinate wrote:Mu-Shi Ai wrote:Korneeleeus Kontrapshun wrote:This trading post is certainly spot on, however I will add a couple cents for the folks that don't like sell orders outstanding.
I use Jita for selling my goods only, but i check the buying prices and adjust my away from Jita / Dodixie region buy orders with enough profit 30 percent or greater , so that I can load up my hauler alt and run to Jita for instant sells to waiting buy orders. Since Jita is so competitive, the buy price is always higher. You just have to manually jump to these pirate invested hubs.
Yes, it's work, but it's easy afk type of pickups, with one big watch your butt drop off. This is really solid advice, and could be of good use to somebody using the region-wide trading system I talked about earlier. You do end up with a lot of ... detritus ... scattered throughout the region, single units in systems that nobody really visits, etc. If it ever got the point where you needed to do some clean-up, collecting the whole lot with a hauler alt and shipping them over to Jita for a quick sell to buy orders might be a very effective means of doing so. Just have to make sure to check Jita prices beforehand. I assume for the goods that show up in low sec systems, you have a cloaky hauler or something of the likes to get through these systems safely? This was always my main concern with region-wide trading, that I'd have goods pop up in low sec and be unable to get them out safely.
That's the easiest way to do it. Blockade runners are awesome for low-sec work due to being able to warp while cloaked and decent align times even while cargo expanded. Especially so since mobile warp disruptors can't be used in low sec.
You can use other ships as well, like fast frigates with good cargo size like a Heron with warp core stabilizers, depends on how much cargo capacity you need.
Alternatively you can use a regular hauler and the cloak-MWD method. Jump into system, align to exit gate or station, turn on MWD, cloak (MWD turns off but finishes it's cycle), then when you get up to warpable speed decloak and you should warp instantly without giving your would-be attackers a chance to target you. Once you get good at this, it'll be almost as good as good a blockade runner.
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Mu-Shi Ai
The Chrysalis Group
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Posted - 2011.12.14 12:38:00 -
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Selinate wrote:I assume for the goods that show up in low sec systems, you have a cloaky hauler or something of the likes to get through these systems safely?
This was always my main concern with region-wide trading, that I'd have goods pop up in low sec and be unable to get them out safely.
Honestly, I haven't ever really worried too much about it. I tend to let this type of "detritus" be. Under normal circumstances, I treat items that pop up in low-sec systems like any other inventory. I put it on sell orders at the station where it sits. Worse comes to worst, you can just fob it off on another another region-wide buy order. In any case, I don't think it would be such a big deal to transport those things in a fast frigate if you really felt the need to. Unless it was a stack of implants or something, you wouldn't be much of a target. |
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