I wrote several times how I handle the annoying 0.01 cartel: by decreasing the margin between the buy and sell orders until the point they give up, or simply the margins are so close that they can't keep up with the natural swings.
Of course it doesn't mean that I own these items. I checked the volumes of my items (the list is similar to the last month). They are sold in the magnitude of 10-20/day, and I buy and sell about 1-2. So my market share is around 10%.
If I have 50B/month and 10% share, the traders of my field take about 500B/month from the mission runners who farm the implants and the implant users. We do it in the form of margin between buy and sell orders. Average guys (those who don't trade just sell their loot or buy items to consume) can't really compete by setting up their own buy or sell orders. You must either camp the market to keep it at the top or deeply undercut once a day and wait for many days maybe. Neither one is smart if you have just a few items to sell or buy. You are better off losing 5-10% and do what you are proficient in.
When I entered this field and every time I include a new item to my list to replace a bad one, I find ridiculous margins. I mean 30-50M between buy and sell for some items. Both buy and sell orders guarded by busy 0.01-ers. I managed to push it down to 5-15M. So assuming the same volume and 2-3x bigger margin, without me (or other deep undercutting trader), the implant farmers and users would pay 500-1000B/month more to the 0.01 cartel.
So just by trading these items I save 500-1000B/month to total strangers and cause 550-1050B/month (the +50B is my share) damage to the 0.01-ers. Just as comparison, the largest battle loss of this year was K6 with the bill of 300B. So my "killboard" is not bad at all. Maybe I need a new logo instead of the goblin face. What about this one?
Obviously I don't own Jita. You can come any time to do the same on any market. There are so many 0.01-ers to destroy and so much ISK to earn and so little time!
Friday morning report: 153.0B (3.5 spent on main accounts, 2.4 spent on Logi/Carrier, 2.2 on Ragnarok, 1.6 on Rorqual, 1.4 on Nyx, 1.8 on Avatar, 2.6 received as gift)
Of course it doesn't mean that I own these items. I checked the volumes of my items (the list is similar to the last month). They are sold in the magnitude of 10-20/day, and I buy and sell about 1-2. So my market share is around 10%.
If I have 50B/month and 10% share, the traders of my field take about 500B/month from the mission runners who farm the implants and the implant users. We do it in the form of margin between buy and sell orders. Average guys (those who don't trade just sell their loot or buy items to consume) can't really compete by setting up their own buy or sell orders. You must either camp the market to keep it at the top or deeply undercut once a day and wait for many days maybe. Neither one is smart if you have just a few items to sell or buy. You are better off losing 5-10% and do what you are proficient in.
When I entered this field and every time I include a new item to my list to replace a bad one, I find ridiculous margins. I mean 30-50M between buy and sell for some items. Both buy and sell orders guarded by busy 0.01-ers. I managed to push it down to 5-15M. So assuming the same volume and 2-3x bigger margin, without me (or other deep undercutting trader), the implant farmers and users would pay 500-1000B/month more to the 0.01 cartel.
So just by trading these items I save 500-1000B/month to total strangers and cause 550-1050B/month (the +50B is my share) damage to the 0.01-ers. Just as comparison, the largest battle loss of this year was K6 with the bill of 300B. So my "killboard" is not bad at all. Maybe I need a new logo instead of the goblin face. What about this one?
Obviously I don't own Jita. You can come any time to do the same on any market. There are so many 0.01-ers to destroy and so much ISK to earn and so little time!
Friday morning report: 153.0B (3.5 spent on main accounts, 2.4 spent on Logi/Carrier, 2.2 on Ragnarok, 1.6 on Rorqual, 1.4 on Nyx, 1.8 on Avatar, 2.6 received as gift)
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