A Lesson on Station Trading

     Good evening, tonight I'm going to cover a topic I hold dear to my heart; and that is Station Trading. I like to consider myself a station trading Guru. So, I've been helping one of my corp members begin his journey on becoming a Eve Billionare. I'm not going to fully give away a secret, but I won't leave it to hard to figure out. In New Eden there are hundreds, hell thousands of items you can find at your local major trade hub that you can buy & sell for a substantial profit. Today's item I pointed out after a 30 second search was a probe. I'm not going to tell you exactly which one, but I will tell you it was a probe. The buy orders were going for 250,000 ISK, and the sell orders were going for 348,000 ISK. So, lets do some quick math. That is a 148,000 ISK profit right there for everyone you buy and sell at those current prices. Now, I don't know what everyone's skills are so we will take a little cut out and make the profit only 140,000 ISK each. The capital we are going to use is 200,000,000 ISK. Which is what the corp member had on hand. With 200,000,000 ISK after broker fees, etc. You can buy 800. Take out the taxes and fees, and we'll go with a safe number, let's make it 780. Now lets take out amount of probes bought, and multiply it by our profit per item sold. So that's going to be 780 x 140,000 ISK. That comes out to a grand total of 109,200,000 ISK. That's over 50% of what you started off with. Granted, it might take a full day to complete all these transaction, maybe even two days; but guess what, you just made 109,200,000 ISK with less than a few hours of actually playing eve. Now imagine if you did that every day or two. I'll go with 2 days, that comes out to 1,638,000,000 ISK. That's enough to bag a PLEX; and still have over 1,150,000,000 ISK left over in a month. You could do that every month of the year, never pay a subscription fee; and purchase a second account or toon from the character bazaar and have a blast. Anyways, in conclusion. When I started off trading, I found a lot of guides that were helpful, but never really gave me any items to start trading, and never gave me any real numbers to wrap my mind around. I hope everyone enjoyed reading this, and hopefully this makes a few more billionaires in New Eden. Good night capsulteers.

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