Author Archives: Grimmash

Results: I was very inactive today, and you can tell.  A few lessons: Just because you can buy more expensive items does not mean you should. Large margins on smaller items are often better than huge margins on big items. The number of items traded only tells you part of the story. I went on a big buy order spree and my velocity of money has slowed.  I am learning that velocity of isk is more important than margins in a lot of ways.  You can’t flip things unless they are churning, and less churn means less total profit from quantity sold.  Tomorrow will be a return to more smaller items as opposed to less big items. That’s all for today.

Results: Good day, inventory is almost nil, orders moved around nicely later in the day.  I had to unload some items due to annoying price swings, so I spun the wheels in place a few times, but overall things are looking good and my range of modules is starting to spread out a bit.  We’ll see if I can keep this level up.  So far I  have been roughly doubling my isk, after the first day. As a side note, at this point I am beating Beamer $94 mil to $6.6 mil.  I wish he was around so we could compare notes… (Update: Beamer started with $473.47 isk, so that last comment may not have been fair.)

Results: Doing ok, since I didn’t pay much attention today as compared to previous.  Apparently a bit of patience is a virtue.  Still working on balancing margins and quantity.   I also am starting to notice weird behaviors and trying to figure them out.  For example when a high margin exists and then a player puts up a sell for a few isk over the highest buy order.  Obviously this is not because that .01 isk matters…  Some sort of manipulation I do not understand.  I’m also learning the value of not overbuying one item when the margin looks nice.  That can backfire, although I have not lost money yet.

Results for Day 2: There you have it.  Results are little less than I wanted, as I have a lot of inventory as of writing time.  I’ve been going for low quantity, fast turn over, but that slowed down in the afternoon.  The .01 iskers are killing me this afternoon…  I got into some nice margins items, but the competition is fierce, and I have not been able to .01 isk it as much as yesterday. Also, a bit of a side note due to financial considerations: if between my current accounts and this experiment I cannot PLEX the market account, I will have 26 days on the market account, so this may be a 28 Day Challenge depending on how well it works.

The results of my first day of the 30 Day Challenge: Not bad for my first foray out.  I bought two skills, Trade and Broker Relations.  As far as modules, I am using a strategy of looking at volume and the margin between buy and sell orders in one station.  The most challenging part of today’s work was playing the .01 isk game.  Some items are much more heavily contested, and also have nice margins.  Those are for days when I have lots of time to look at the markets.  The biggest question is how to scale up from margins of 10k or a few 100k to something that is more profitable!  A few more days to manage the income, and then I think I’ll ahve to start looking at that question.