Wallet Manager Update

Posted: 2011-07-13 | Author: | Filed under: industry, market | 5 Comments

A corpmate and I have been working on a custom written site to manage our investments. Here are a few screenshots from the newest version.

Main Page
Sell Orders
Transactions per Station
Historical Isotope Sales

The site has come a long way since we started doing some basic station trading profit tracking.

If you are interested in some of the older posts, see:

Refined Capital Production Page
Custom Wallet Manager

A lot of what we are working on now is getting intelligent information out of our historical sales. Some of the questions that we are trying to answer are:

1. What are the top items over the past 30, 90, max days?

2. What should we be selling?

3. What groups of items are stocked and what is missing?

Technetium Roller Coaster

Posted: 2011-06-20 | Author: | Filed under: industry, market | Tags: | Leave a comment

According to Akita T’s threadnaught Dominion market analysis : sky’s the limit on technetium (long term), Technetium is the current bottleneck in the T2 production process.

I have been debating, reading, and watching the performance for a few months now and I bought in at 118.02k.

This weekend was a little tense as there was a lot of speculation about CCP adjusting the ratios for T2 production for the Incarna — er semi-Incarna one Captain’s Quarters release.

Additionally there has been a lot of chatter as it was dropping to 100k-ish in Jita this weekend. I contribute this drop to some former NC alliances cashing out and new alliances that are now Technetium rich also selling in Jita to get quick liquid ISK.


I could have bought in at a much lower price, but I am not that comfortable with speculating on moongoo prices.

Overall I’m happy with a +83 M profit and I have 580 units left to sell.

7 Month Trading Update

Posted: 2011-05-31 | Author: | Filed under: market | Leave a comment

Data from 2010-10-18 and ending 2011-05-26:

  • 4,561 unique people in sale transactions
  • 697 unique items sold
  • 906,279,934 quantity of items sold
  • 242,451,408,763.64 ISK sold

I’ve moved a lot of liquid ISK into BPOs in the past three weeks. I’m now the proud owner of all the Capital BPO components (minus the Dread and Titan ones), Thanatos, Chimera, Maelstrom, Drake, and Hurricane. I also picked up a full set of the T2 Ship Component BPOs and all cruiser BPOs that can produce an invented T2 ship. Perhaps I will have to try out Invention.

Quafe Zero Speculation

Posted: 2011-05-06 | Author: | Filed under: market | Tags: | Leave a comment

Let the trading begin! I can only imagine that the price of this item will increase over time. I do wonder if this is a first step into CCP’s vision of ‘trading drugs at the bar person-to-person’ Incarna-style.

Get yer Quafe Zero! Quafe Zero here for sale! 15 M a can! In this instance, I am all for pushing drugs on the general population.

Eve Market Forum thread for Quafe Zero Speculation.

Trading 201: Nullsec Station Trading Logistics

Posted: 2011-04-08 | Author: | Filed under: eveonline, market, ships | Tags: , , , , | 1 Comment

Intro

This article discusses a trading strategy that involves more capital than pure Highsec trading, but if you have the means it can result in higher gains. If you haven’t read them, review Trading 101 and 102; these are a quick refresher course on my trading strategies.

Logistical Overview

The goal is to move goods from Jita to a Highsec station that is within short jump range of your Nullsec trading location and to then jump them into your Nullsec trading system. Since Jump Freighters cannot jump into Highsec, you need to return to a Lowsec system next to a Highsec system.

Items Needed

1, Jump Freighter.
1, Freighter.
1, Freighter alt in Jita in a NPC corporation to avoid war declarations.
1, Nullsec trader with cyno skills. Minimum of Accounting IV, Broker Relations IV.
1, Lowsec cyno alt. Keep this character under 900,000 skill points so you never have to update the clone.
Racial Isotopes specific to your Jump Freighter
Trade Goods

Assumptions

  1. You understand the basics of capital ship jumping (Eve Wiki review).
  2. You are flying what you can afford to loose (including cargo!) (!!).
  3. Destination nullsec system is not cyno jammed.
  4. Lowsec system, that connects to Highsec, has a station.

Tips

  1. You will never want to jump into a lowsec system while cynoing from a safe-spot. Jump Freighters take some 10-20 seconds to align and get into warp and since you cyno beacon appears on the overview, anyone in lowsec can warp to you and scramble you.
  2. Do your market research.
  3. Never haul more than 2B worth of cargo out of Jita. You will be a target for ganking.
  4. Get a Jita insta-undock bookmark. This will help you avoid the freighter bumps outside of Jita 4-4 while attempting to warp to a gate.
  5. If the Jump Freighter character’s corporation gets wardec’d, use your lowsec cyno alt to scout into highsec before entering highsec.
  6. Hardwiring – Eifyr and Co. ‘Rogue’ AY-1 implant for 3% bonus to Ship Agility
  7. Hardwiring – Eifyr and Co. ‘Rogue’ CY-1 implant for 3% bonus to Ship Velocity

Stocking Goods

What in the heck do I sell? Think of what people do in nullsec: PVP, ratting, mining. Do you market research. Get your trading alt into nullsec and start going through the market.

Buy a few items of differing market groups and see how fast each one sells.

Cyno Jumping Tips

Review this article by S.W. on the proper creation of a cyno under the “Where the heck is that cyno – at the station” heading; you want to light the cyno next to the nullsec station within 5,000 m of the structure while still being within docking range.

The below example shows that you will want to light your cyno greater than 5,000 m away from the station physically (use the tactical overlay), but still within the station docking range.

After you jump to your cyno, do not issue any navigational directions to the Jump Freighter. The session timer post jump will make your Jump Freighter untargetable and therefore invulnerable for 20 seconds. Once the timer is up, dock up. This will refresh your ship’s capacitor back to 100%.

What? I need an concrete example!

9UY4-H II – Chribbas Cottage UNITY station in Providence is a station with no docking fees and is open to the public.

Highsec Staging -> 9UY4-H
9UY4-H -> Lowsec next to Highsec, Irshah
Irshah,  lowsec next to Highsec -> Highsec

I’m lazy, give me the Dotlan jump map.
http://evemaps.dotlan.net/jump/Anshar,444/Esescama:9UY4-H:Irshah

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