Trade tips
I wanted to start giving out some money making tips for those visiting my blog and the easiest way to do this is to simply post some results from my market tool.
Below you’ll find the top items from my traderoutes and reprocessing searches. I’m sorry for the somewhat crappy presentation. This blog layout is not designed for wide tables.
Disclaimer: I haven’t checked these tips out so do not blindly trust them. Do some sanity checking before committing yourself!
You can find the old tips here.
NOTE: I haven’t updated these trade tips for a while as I haven’t seen any interest in them. If you want to see more, please let me know and I’ll post an update.
Update Notes (on Dec 28, 2009)
Here’s another installment of my trading tips. Again it is reprocessing for Essence and the traderoute from Essence to Sinq Laison.
On the reprocessing side we have a few good candidates (mainly the smart bombs look good) and some ok ones. But I must repeat my advise to be careful with the very low margin, high turnover items. It is very easy to get burned on them.
I’m a bit surprised to see a ship pop up on the traderoutes. I guess the Dominion patch is creating interesting situations on the T2 ship market. Meta 4 items have always had a good market and of the recommendations they would be my picks. Dog tags have a market, but can be tricky due to fluctuating demand (although the navy tags should be more stable than pirate ones). T2 modules can get heavy competition from manufacturers, but they can be very lucrative depending on the region.
Reprocessing
The reprocessing tip gives you the top items to buy with buy orders and then reprocess for minerals in Essence. It is surprising how many items are sold below their mineral value giving you a really easy profit opportunity.
The items are the top picks by the potential daily profit (i.e. profit is multiplied by the number of items that gets traded daily). Used mineral prices are also given and the mineral yield of 90% was assumed (included in the calculations).
The item name link wont work as it points to my service (which is not available here).
Prices used
| Material | Price |
|---|---|
| Tritanium | 2.56 |
| Mexallon | 24.58 |
| Isogen | 51.80 |
| Pyerite | 4.85 |
| Nocxium | 99.97 |
| Zydrine | 1,683.00 |
| Megacyte | 3,011.00 |
| Morphite | 8,826.00 |
| Item | Reprocess value | Buy price | Volume | Profit | Profit per day | Sell price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Large Rudimentary Concussion Bomb I x 1 | EC | 235,086.00 | 111,801.00 | 580 (18.75) | 123,284.00 (110%) | 2,311,588.00 | 202,500.00 |
| Tachyon Beam Laser I x 1 | EC | 807,333.00 | 695,500.00 | 637 (17.29) | 111,833.00 (16%) | 1,933,122.00 | 866,153.00 |
| Small Hull Repairer I x 1 | EC | 27,794.00 | 19,196.00 | 14 853 (218.90) | 8,598.00 (44%) | 1,882,145.00 | 19,941.00 |
| Ion Blaster Cannon I x 1 | EC | 495,748.00 | 437,457.00 | 906 (30.08) | 58,291.00 (13%) | 1,753,589.00 | 548,749.00 |
| Dual 650mm Repeating Artillery I x 1 | EC | 350,424.00 | 255,080.00 | 581 (17.92) | 95,344.00 (37%) | 1,708,255.00 | 386,088.00 |
| 50mm Reinforced Titanium Plates I x 1 | EC | 21,489.00 | 13,772.00 | 11 150 (220.77) | 7,716.00 (56%) | 1,703,609.00 | 15,666.00 |
| Focused Medium Beam Laser I x 1 | EC | 63,979.00 | 41,102.00 | 2 174 (65.33) | 22,877.00 (55%) | 1,494,635.00 | 70,000.00 |
| Explosion Dampening Field I x 1 | EC | 50,579.00 | 31,005.00 | 1 377 (74.88) | 19,574.00 (63%) | 1,465,634.00 | 35,138.00 |
| Medium Graviton Smartbomb I x 1 | EC | 103,290.00 | 75,075.00 | 1 277 (51.29) | 28,215.00 (37%) | 1,447,055.00 | 100,000.00 |
| Medium Rudimentary Concussion Bomb I x 1 | EC | 235,086.00 | 75,047.00 | 120 (9.00) | 160,039.00 (213%) | 1,440,353.00 | 84,757.00 |
Traderoutes
I selected Essence to Sinq Laison as the traderoute regions because of the close proximity of Oursulaert and Dodixie. They both are pretty active trade hubs so there’s plenty of opportunities for profit.
The values for volume are units per day (followed by the volatility percentage). The EC link takes you to the applicable Eve-central.com page so you can check things out in more detail. Other columns should be pretty self explanatory. The item name link wont work as it points to my service (which is not available here).
| Essence | Sinq Laison | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Item | Meta | Vol | Buy | Sell | Vol | Buy | Sell | Profit / item | ROI | Daily profit | ||
| Large Remote Armor Repair System II | 5 | EC | 1.67 (1.75%) | 523,009.00 | 1,799,633.00 | EC | 1.89 (0.17%) | 1,414,000.00 | 2,232,165.00 | 1,709,156.00 | 326 % | 2,848,594.00 |
| Helios | 5 | EC | 0.50 (5.00%) | 12,640,502.00 | 17,950,000.00 | EC | 1.37 (0.48%) | 15,404,000.00 | 16,409,666.00 | 3,769,163.00 | 29 % | 1,884,581.00 |
| Caldari Navy Captain Insignia I | 0 | EC | 34.25 (0.30%) | 19,437.00 | 18,030.00 | EC | 27.50 (0.22%) | 16,807.00 | 80,549.00 | 61,112.00 | 314 % | 1,680,594.00 |
| Medium F-S9 Regolith Shield Induction | 4 | EC | 1.43 (0.61%) | 611,015.00 | 2,000,874.00 | EC | 1.53 (0.43%) | 1,640,001.00 | 1,776,950.00 | 1,165,935.00 | 190 % | 1,665,622.00 |
| 350mm Prototype I Gauss Gun | 4 | EC | 0.44 (0.39%) | 4,001,009.00 | 6,822,215.00 | EC | 0.90 (0.44%) | 6,718,801.00 | 7,246,833.00 | 3,245,823.00 | 81 % | 1,442,588.00 |
| Caldari Navy Vice Admiral Insignia I | 0 | EC | 2.55 (0.10%) | 523,000.00 | 1,055,333.00 | EC | 6.68 (0.19%) | 869,392.00 | 1,074,229.00 | 551,229.00 | 105 % | 1,403,130.00 |
| Heavy Electron Blaster II | 5 | EC | 2.75 (1.53%) | 651,500.00 | 1,049,713.00 | EC | 2.51 (0.16%) | 969,143.00 | 1,153,995.00 | 502,495.00 | 77 % | 1,262,081.00 |
| Passive Targeter II | 5 | EC | 1.30 (0.50%) | 104,693.00 | 1,219,233.00 | EC | 1.40 (0.30%) | 617,973.00 | 999,999.00 | 895,305.00 | 855 % | 1,163,897.00 |
| Large Core Defence Field Purger I | 0 | EC | 0.50 (3.12%) | 1,305,037.00 | 7,896,999.00 | EC | 0.18 (0.03%) | 2,200,000.00 | 7,289,517.00 | 5,984,479.00 | 458 % | 1,094,721.00 |
| Heavy Modulated Energy Beam I | 4 | EC | 1.00 (2.50%) | 1,842,654.00 | 3,414,769.00 | EC | 1.15 (0.23%) | 2,705,200.00 | 2,909,642.00 | 1,066,988.00 | 57 % | 1,066,988.00 |