Trading update - 10/18/2013

Trading is definitely a profitable business in EVE Online, but of course, I knew that already.

The state of my trading is as following:

1. Sell orders: 1,225,092,710 isk
2. Freeflow cash: 1,010,162,504.92
3. Available PLEX: 1
4. Spent PLEX: 1

Time to reinvest into my favorite trade items, and perhaps look for new markets.

Last round of trade was in items that seem to have a very large competition, and due to my infrequent price updating, it was a lot slower than I expected - basically my greed got the best of me. I saw highly profitable items that trade in acceptable volumes, and the price difference between Jita and Rens was over 100%. The mistake I made was jumping onto that wagon with more than 2-3 items.
Time to start looking into other low volume high profit items that don't have over 20 traders competing for the sell.

I also decided to add PLEX to the audit information. One PLEX was used for a new account that will become my Dodixie trading alt. The alt is currently training Cybernetics 5, and as soon as it's trained up he will get a +5 charisma implant and start training his trading skills.

This new alt brings me to the musings part of this blog post. Since it's a new alt, i'm stuck with the rookie help channel for a month (I know I can close it, but ...) and just looking at the rookie help channel gives a great insight into various types of people that you encounter almost on every MMO.

You have your genuine newbies who just want to get pointed in the right direction, and then you get the other type of newbies who want to be spoon-fed, and almost want to have someone else play the game for them. And then of course you have the newbie helpers who most of the time seem to be perfect assholes who come to the rookie help channel for an ego boost since they can't get it somewhere else (with a very few exceptions).

If any newbie ever comes to read this blog, here is a piece of advice: google is your friend. I learned much of what I know about EVE (not that I claim I know that much) from other EVE bloggers. Stop asking stupid questions in game, and start working for yourselves.