Day 30: 30 Day Market Challenge

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Final Results:

THE END!

And a record setting day!  And this gem happened today:

Lesson:  Pay attention to your buy orders when you type them in.  This guy put an extra “1” in the hundreds digit, and I made about 70 mil off his mistake.  Woo!

Recap 

30 days ago I gave a fresh alt 5 million isk and just the basic trade skills.  Then I almost exclusively traded in stations, setting buy orders and flipping those to sell orders.  I started in Jita, moved to Amarr and then to Dodixie, and ended up back in Jita.  5 mil was turned into 1,461 million, or a 29,236% increase is value.  Here is the overall chart of the daily reports:

You can see the dips when I moved, as I cleared out stock before moving on.
My final Trade skills are:
  • Accounting 4
  • Broker Relations 4
  • Marketing 4
  • Procurement 4
  • Retail 4
  • Trade 4
I didn’t even use all of those skills.

Hypothesis:  You can pay for a PLEX with a new character just by station trading.
Results: True.
Addendum
The full guide will be coming with lots more info.  I expect to have it done sometime over the weekend.  As promised, here is the complete list of items I traded in, pulled from EveHQ, so I make no claims for the accuracy:
Transaction Trading Report
from Tuesday, April 10, 2012 to Friday, May 11, 2012
Item Amount Traded Average Unit Profit Total Profit
100MN Afterburner II 10 696,441.72 6,964,417.21
10MN MicroWarpdrive II 2 168,664.68 337,329.36
1200mm Artillery Cannon I 7 334,995.60 2,344,969.17
1200mm Artillery Cannon II 12 1,229,084.83 14,749,017.98
1200mm Heavy ‘Scout’ Artillery I 28 583,923.12 16,349,847.39
125mm Prototype Gauss Gun 6 136,897.88 821,387.30
1400mm Gallium Cannon 8 458,853.80 3,670,830.38
1400mm Prototype Siege Cannon 15 625,820.00 9,387,299.97
1400mm ‘Scout’ Artillery I 36 787,499.77 28,349,991.81
150mm Light AutoCannon I 70 24,171.72 1,692,020.58
150mm Light Prototype Automatic Cannon 22 87,572.32 1,926,590.95
150mm Light ‘Scout’ Autocannon I 15 334,822.67 5,022,340.08
1MN Afterburner II 10 528,613.80 5,286,138.03
200mm Compressed Coil Gun I 14 95,853.95 1,341,955.32
200mm Light Carbine Repeating Cannon I 20 198,975.35 3,979,506.96
200mm Light Gallium Machine Gun 40 106,199.89 4,247,995.50
200mm Light ‘Scout’ Autocannon I 32 489,007.61 15,648,243.50
200mm Prototype Gauss Gun 26 785,169.97 20,414,419.22
200mm Railgun II 5 640,696.27 3,203,481.37
200mm ‘Scout’ Accelerator Cannon 10 153,799.95 1,537,999.53
220mm Medium Gallium Machine Gun 22 479,051.07 10,539,123.64
220mm Vulcan AutoCannon II 5 339,150.96 1,695,754.80
250mm Light Artillery Cannon I 20 52,497.07 1,049,941.41
350mm Compressed Coil Gun I 9 507,837.39 4,570,536.54
350mm Prototype Gauss Gun 20 505,361.42 10,107,228.33
425mm AutoCannon II 69 402,053.09 27,741,663.39
425mm Medium Gallium Machine Gun 31 585,406.90 18,147,613.77
425mm Medium Prototype Automatic Cannon 10 749,791.81 7,497,918.10
425mm Medium ‘Scout’ Autocannon I 27 956,597.56 25,828,133.99
425mm Railgun II 1 972,111.00 972,111.00
650mm Artillery Cannon II 4 228,790.37 915,161.48
650mm Medium Prototype Siege Cannon 20 203,999.03 4,079,980.60
650mm Medium ‘Scout’ Artillery I 32 83,366.64 2,667,732.63
720mm Howitzer Artillery II 6 646,737.61 3,880,425.67
Acceleration Control 10 11,847.45 118,474.47
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II 68 157,413.69 10,704,130.74
Advanced ‘Limos’ Heavy Missile Bay I 133 200,958.95 26,727,540.72
Afterburner 8 95,136.75 761,094.00
Anode Electron Particle Cannon I 7 302,799.97 2,119,599.80
Anode Light Neutron Particle Cannon I 15 164,052.64 2,460,789.65
Anode Mega Neutron Particle Cannon I 22 44,514.23 979,313.03
Anode Neutron Particle Cannon I 56 298,895.81 16,738,165.45
‘Arbalest’ Heavy Missile Launcher 13 2,814,736.79 36,591,578.24
‘Arbalest’ Rocket Launcher I 37 266,534.99 9,861,794.46
Arkonor Mining Crystal II 3 496,999.20 1,490,997.60
Balmer Series Tracking Disruptor I 22 737,147.67 16,217,248.82
Basic Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane 36 65,316.19 2,351,382.99
Beta Reactor Control: Capacitor Power Relay I 10 143,621.09 1,436,210.89
Beta Reactor Control: Diagnostic System I 10 134,489.90 1,344,898.95
Broken Drone Transceiver 265 36.39 9,644.33
BZ-5 Neutralizing Spatial Destabilizer ECM 20 352,944.31 7,058,886.29
Cap Recharger I 97 20,483.91 1,986,938.83
Command Processor I 10 304,994.96 3,049,949.55
Conflagration L 10 332,865.95 3,328,659.50
Core Probe Launcher II 1 226,997.99 226,997.99
Covert Ops Cloaking Device II 3 1,466,335.07 4,399,005.21
Damage Control I 6 452.02 2,712.12
Damaged Artificial Neural Network 111 179 19,869.00
Drone Synaptic Relay Wiring 171 2.1 359.1
Dual 180mm AutoCannon I 23 109,948.96 2,528,825.99
Dual 250mm Prototype Gauss Gun 26 182,865.51 4,754,503.16
Dual 650mm Repeating Artillery II 11 1,047,128.78 11,518,416.57
Dual Heavy Modulated Pulse Energy Beam I 10 324,178.02 3,241,780.23
Dual Light Pulse Laser II 25 234,712.98 5,867,824.46
Dual Modulated Pulse Energy Beam I 13 443,497.86 5,765,472.21
Electron Blaster Cannon II 3 988,993.19 2,966,979.56
Energy Grid Upgrades 2 168,853.45 337,706.90
Energy Systems Operation 2 49,999.99 99,999.98
Enfeebling Phase Inversion ECM I 40 278,241.61 11,129,664.40
Evasive Maneuvering 1 47,473.95 47,473.95
Expanded Probe Launcher II 3 1,875,631.86 5,626,895.57
Experimental 100MN Afterburner I 50 61,888.10 3,094,405.01
Experimental 10MN MicroWarpdrive I 150 71,752.98 10,762,947.68
Experimental 1MN Afterburner I 174 32,111.99 5,587,486.37
F-90 Positional Sensor Subroutines 16 275,573.99 4,409,183.90
Faint Epsilon Warp Scrambler I 47 357,181.51 16,787,530.91
Fleeting Progressive Warp Scrambler I 57 7,766.50 442,690.65
Fleeting Propulsion Inhibitor I 52 570,457.62 29,663,795.98
Focused Afocal Pulse Maser I 3 399,997.02 1,199,991.06
Focused Anode Medium Particle Stream I 14 292,801.38 4,099,219.37
Focused Medium Pulse Laser I 13 192,782.97 2,506,178.62
Fuel Conservation 10 4,548.50 45,484.97
Gallente Cruiser 2 154,000.01 308,000.02
‘Halcyon’ Core Equalizer I 7 -10,411.92 -72,883.41
Heat Sink I 50 18,319.04 915,952.14
Heavy Modulated Energy Beam I 56 288,943.70 16,180,847.36
Heavy Modulated Pulse Energy Beam I 23 857,328.30 19,718,550.91
Heavy Pulse Laser I 2 82,990.43 165,980.87
Heavy Unstable Power Fluctuator I 55 193,519.71 10,643,583.87
Hull Upgrades 5 34,646.00 173,230.00
Ion Blaster Cannon II 9 538,250.56 4,844,255.05
Kernite Mining Crystal II 7 190,701.46 1,334,910.21
Kinetic Deflection Amplifier II 5 189,998.69 949,993.44
Kinetic Deflection Field II 20 62,477.04 1,249,540.90
Large Armor Repairer I 60 260,078.24 15,604,694.11
Large Automated Carapace Restoration 20 -1.01 -20.2
Large Energy Transfer Array II 9 963,890.86 8,675,017.74
Large F-S9 Regolith Shield Induction 40 51,340.17 2,053,606.73
Large Remote Armor Repair System II 5 458,622.08 2,293,110.40
Large Shield Booster II 6 255,266.13 1,531,596.75
Light Electron Blaster I 100 10,919.84 1,091,983.89
Light Electron Blaster II 6 616,341.46 3,698,048.78
Light Neutron Blaster I 288 24,411.14 7,030,407.57
Low Frequency Sensor Suppressor I 37 230,864.74 8,541,995.52
Mark I Generator Refitting: Diagnostic System 100 13,322.19 1,332,219.34
Medium Anode Pulse Particle Stream I 10 76,479.45 764,794.50
Medium Electrochemical Capacitor Booster I 1 0.66 0.66
Medium Inefficient Armor Repair Unit 19 17,678.86 335,898.30
Medium Modulated Pulse Energy Beam I 28 558,063.91 15,625,789.49
Medium Nanobot Accelerator I 5 875,687.91 4,378,439.54
Medium Pulse Laser II 37 354,620.02 13,120,940.56
Medium Remote Armor Repair System II 5 547,998.41 2,739,992.07
Medium Semiconductor Memory Cell I 1 2,147,877.19 2,147,877.19
Medium Unstable Power Fluctuator I 49 847,621.94 41,533,475.14
Mega Modal Pulse Laser I 14 1,336,236.11 18,707,305.48
Mega Modulated Energy Beam I 81 226,634.41 18,357,387.17
Mega Modulated Pulse Energy Beam I 12 157,040.48 1,884,485.81
Micro Auxiliary Power Core I 10 88,996.35 889,963.50
Micro Auxiliary Power Core II 8 1,652,367.52 13,218,940.17
Mining Laser Upgrade II 18 737,279.38 13,271,028.88
Mobile Medium Warp Disruptor I 3 1,279,051.74 3,837,155.21
Modal Electron Particle Accelerator I 3 3,150,286.43 9,450,859.29
Modal Ion Particle Accelerator I 33 1,085,437.43 35,819,435.23
Modal Light Neutron Particle Accelerator I 31 475,366.28 14,736,354.76
Modal Mega Neutron Particle Accelerator I 15 874,624.68 13,119,370.13
Modal Neutron Particle Accelerator I 51 1,132,616.64 57,763,448.63
Modulated Strip Miner II 23 1,672,616.19 38,470,172.29
Parallel Weapon Navigation Transmitter 20 188,998.97 3,779,979.40
Phased Muon Sensor Disruptor I 29 611,291.03 17,727,439.83
Phased Weapon Navigation Array Generation Extron 44 794,320.24 34,950,090.70
Power Diagnostic System II 28 104,687.50 2,931,249.87
Prototype ‘Arbalest’ Heavy Assault Missile Launcher I 36 460,588.90 16,581,200.41
Prototype ‘Arbalest’ Light Missile Launcher 24 314,951.56 7,558,837.36
Prototype Cloaking Device I 3 298,661.22 895,983.65
Prototype Sensor Booster 50 86,737.80 4,336,889.79
Regulated Mega Neutron Phase Cannon I 17 81,000.27 1,377,004.51
Retail 11 27,986.21 307,848.27
Scorch M 2 194,843.99 389,687.98
Scorch S 4 186,791.91 747,167.64
Shield Boost Amplifier I 10 169,872.73 1,698,727.27
Shield Boost Amplifier II 10 108,459.95 1,084,599.53
Shield Power Relay I 100 20,028.50 2,002,849.58
Shield Power Relay II 10 158,981.66 1,589,816.64
Shield Recharger II 36 63,734.36 2,294,437.07
Small Auxiliary Thrusters I 10 67,691.84 676,918.40
Small Cargohold Optimization I 2 349,998.97 699,997.94
Small Diminishing Power System Drain I 1 349,997.83 349,997.83
Small Energy Neutralizer II 13 636,544.07 8,275,072.93
Small Shield Booster II 4 175,395.40 701,581.58
Small Unstable Power Fluctuator I 12 564,236.33 6,770,835.99
‘Stalwart’ Particle Field Magnifier 3 25,217,129.79 75,651,389.37
Tachyon Beam Laser II 5 1,031,320.67 5,156,603.33
Tachyon Modulated Energy Beam I 45 260,934.48 11,742,051.62
Thermic Dissipation Field II 38 254,820.10 9,683,163.80
Trade 6 56,492.41 338,954.48
Upgraded 1MN Microwarpdrive I 5 41,323.18 206,615.92
Warp Core Stabilizer II 35 384,619.21 13,461,672.34
Warp Scrambler II 2 299,888.33 599,776.65
X-Large C5-L Emergency Shield Overload I 10 753,397.99 7,533,979.93
X-Large Shield Booster II 15 581,089.96 8,716,349.34

5 Replies to “Day 30: 30 Day Market Challenge”

  1. Awesome effort as well reaching over 1B ISK in the process. Should skill train Margin Trading, it will help with cutting down on amount you have in escrow at any one time for Buy Orders that are up and thus more liquid funds to do other things.

  2. I’m still amazed by the margins you report on some items, specially as the margin in jita is sometime a 3rd of what you say.
    Although I realize that because of all the move it might have been in another hub or done by arbitraging during one of your moves.

    • Well, the margins came out of EveHQ, so I am not sure how accurate the numbers are. But, the numbers I report for my results are accurate :). I did move around a bit, but the margins are ever changing as a moment in time does not show the 2-3 day trading history, as it were.

    • I should give another try to EvE HQ. Does it provide info on the reprocess value of modules?
      I’m working a lot with EvE Refinery now, it would completely wreck my reported margins on refined items

  3. I use mostly Excel when I actually crunch numbers, but EveHQ does have a refining section. I universally hate almost every refining tool out there, and just built my own for ore. In EveHQ it’s under the Prism Plugin, which is awesome for some things, not for others. You have to manually populate the list everytime you use it though. Or maybe not… I don’t use it much :(.