I made profits of 26bn in January 2026, from this i made an accounting payment of 12bn to Omega my 7 accounts and spent 2 billion on a slap up meal at Miss Miggins Pie Shop (and bought an Orca to see what it was all about)..
Therefore, my wealth increased by 12bn to 2.450 trillion isk.
Again, a quiet month when looking at profits but perhaps this is the new level with the higher level of competition i am seeing.
Part of me thinks there is something going on with my spreadsheets. For the first part of the month i was in losses. I redid one of my spreadsheets and i think i can see where assets can move around in price where they should not.
I am not wedded to my wealth going up forever but i do want to see it rise before i account for distributions. My business has to make a monthly profits! And then i am happy to give all of that away and a bit more each month.
I have been giving away my wealth since July 2023 and so far have given away 538bn isk in that time vs the 1.7 trillion isk i have made over that time. So arguably i have 1.2 trillion to give away still!
Total Sell Orders on the market remained flat at 2.5 trillion. Buy Orders are now effectively nil - i have pulled out of Station Trading in Jita. Therefore, i have 2.5 trillion of Orders on the market.
2026 Aims
I discussed my aims for 2026 in this post.
My isk making aims are to stick to the core business of Regional Trading but also to expand into Manufacturing and Market Seeding. And also give Low Sec / Null Sec a shot in trading - without soiling my pants.
My non-isk making aims are to see if my Alliance joins someone else's and to continue to give away my isk. (it makes me incredibly sad to think that one day many many years ago i logged off from World of Warcraft as normal with my character in the Auction House with several million gold and then to never log on again - i should have given it away over time).
And then Eve related - i am off to Fanfest and hope to attend a London Meetup.
The overriding point here is that this is a game. I can't take my trillions with me into real life. So firstly lets get the accounting right for the wealth and secondly lets have fun and bring enjoyment to the game for all.
Omega / "accounting payments"
In June 2025 i took part in the Omega sale and spent 143 billion isk to buy 12 months Omega on all my 7 accounts. That 143 billion isk counts to me as an asset in my wealth and i will reduce it by 12 billion each month to wind it down to zero when the Omega runs out.
Therefore, each month i will have this "accounting payment" of 12 billion isk.
More details in the section "Seven Omega Accounts to pay for" below.
Distribution Policy
My plan going forwards is to have 50 billion isk spare in my wallet, on top of isk in my manufacturing operation, for opportunities that come up and therefore i will distribute every surplus 50 billion - i.e. when i get to 100 billion isk in my wallet (on top of the isk in my manufacturing operations) i will distribute 50 billion.
I find there is no longer a "purpose" to watching my wealth rise like there was on the road to my first trillion.
Distributions
These days, the aim is to distribute my profits to the Oz Tank Show or other ventures that generate content in Eve Online. Watching the numbers go up was great in the first trillion but lacks purpose onwards.
This month i made a 50 billion isk distribution to The Oz Show
So far i have given 538bn to Eve shows:
260bn isk to the Oz Tank Show
142.5bn to The Oz Show
50bn to the twitch show TheOneAndOnlySidar
50bn to Gamingsincethe70s
20bn to the podcast Declarations of War to sponsor it.
13.2bn to the Nth_Dimensional Twitch show
1.6bn to the Raff_About_It show
The Oz Tank Show started in July 2023 and i have generated profits of 1.723 trillion in the July 2023 - December 2025 period (after Omega costs) and distributed 538 billion.
So that leaves 1.2 trillion isk to distribute to some venture(s).
Seven Omega Accounts to pay for
I took advantage of the 20% plex discount and added another 12 months on all my accounts in June 2025.
In June i spent 143 billion isk buying 12 months of Omega for 7 accounts and another 12 months for one of those accounts because i was too far into a bottle of red to be paying attention (1 of these accounts is a manufacturing account which was an old account going back to 2012 that has been in alpha since around 2016).
My seven Omega accounts will come off Omega from July 2026 to September 2026 with one account going to October 2027.
Rather than being complicated and staggering the depreciation of this asset and figuring out how the extra 12 months will work - I will account for this in the normal way by saying from this July 2025 onwards 1/12 of the 143 billion will be recognised as a cost each month = 143/12 = 12 billion isk and the asset held in wealth will therefore reduce by 12 billion isk each month.
For the accountants amongst you that will mean come July 2026 i will have a number of free months of Omega to come including one account Omega all the way to October 2027!
If i did what i used to do which was to buy 3 months of Omega i would be spending 7x6.2x1200/3 = 17 billion isk a month. So the 20% discount and 12 month purchase was a good deal.
The basic numbers for January
In January i had sales of 323bn isk vs December of 349bn. So a fall of 8% and inline with the average of 325bn.
The month started off slow - i guess a Christmas hangover. And it was below January 2025 (386 trillion) and January 2024 (402 trillion) and January 2023 (453 trillion). That was depressing.,
But still the story is the same, i am clearly experiencing higher competition but it is not really wiping out my sales, it is hitting my margins as we all fight for that buyer.
This comes to average daily sales of 10.4bn isk. In other words, each evening i expect to see across all my accounts an additional 10bn isk (less transaction taxes) sitting on the characters to be reinvested back into the markets.
Item profits were 70bn isk which is a margin of 22% (70/325). So the third month in five where the item profit margin has been less than the target 25%. I had hoped that i had resolved this but it appears not though part of me does suspect something is up with my spreadsheets.
Taxes and Courier fees came to 45bn isk. Within this, the broker relisting fees came to 5.1% of sales vs the spike of 8.0% in September and the more normal range of 2.9%. So still high and that now reflects the much higher competition i am experiencing in the 4 main trade hubs across all Blueprints and other items. not sure if it will fall any further for now. This could be the new normal.
But what it does mean is that i am not updating as many orders each night though i still need to sell at lower margins to make that sale.
That takes the Trading Profits to 26bn isk and so a trading margin of 7.9% (26/325). So below the 16% margin target which has now been missed five months in a row as well as in June and July. This is where the higher competition makes itself seen in my numbers.
Clearly, unless there is some data error going on then this looks like a trend that is setting in place. The daily relist of 3x the volume of orders that i used to is taking its toll on the relisting fees. I discussed this further in an earlier blog post, which also made the observation that sales were not really affected vs profit margins which were dragged lower.
And then from this 26bn profits i pay the 12bn Omega charge and bought an Orca for 2 billion which meant my wealth rose by 12 billion isk.
That was how 325billion isk of sales became 12 billion isk increase in wealth.
My Sales Strategy within my Regional Trading Business
Regional Trading is about 84% of my Eve Online business. Other Revenue streams are growing faster but Regional Trading remains my bread and butter.
I redesigned how i operate each evening now that i use the Eve Excel Addin fully within my business.
It takes 10 minutes to go through my trading locations to work out what needs to be bought from Jita to be sold and also what Sell Orders need to be updated.
It takes 10 minutes to buy the items from Jita and set up courier contracts and adjust all the noted Sell Orders.
And then 5 minutes to put the couriered items up for Sale when they arrive later.
What used to take 45 minutes now takes 20-25 minutes.
And then once a weak i do a deeper dive into each trading location to see what new items i can sell. That can take a full 20 minutes.
My overall strategy remains to Buy from Sell Orders in Jita to sell in the trading hubs in other Regions.
Within Regional Trading I don't sell consumable items such as ammunition given they tend to be high volume and very competitive. That includes ships.
I rarely sell items used as components in manufacturing because the end buyer tends to be cost conscious (and armed with spreadsheets) and able to manufacture the items themselves if market prices are too high.
I sell items that are in low supply and sell very slowly. These items tend to have very low competition - sellers want to get cash quickly and so don't bother in these items. If i put an item on the market and it sells in 15 days that is fine with me.
These items also tend to be price insensitive - players will buy the item almost whatever the price. The Buyer is much more interested in getting the item to use now rather than setting off to Jita to get it cheaper.
I sell items that are typically bought to kit a ship as a player progresses or has to replace a destroyed ship / pod.
Each month i sell 20-30% of what i had to sell at the start of the month.
I have a rule that the minimum profits have to be 100m isk. It is no use me buying items for 5m to sell them for 15m. The profitability may be great but that won't move the dials. That said, it is surprising how many items i can buy for 120m from Jita Sell Orders and sell for 220m in the other trading hubs. At that isk level, players re-equipping don't care about spending an additional 100m isk to save time.
And in the secondary trading hubs Amarr / Dodixie / Rens / Hek buyers will not travel even one jump to buy a cheaper item. For example, i can post an item for sale in the main Rens Trading up for 300m, and even if one jump away the same item is for sale for 250m the item in the main Trading Hub will still be the item sold.
Therefore, i mostly sell Implants, Blueprints, ship equipment and some structure modules. And more recently Large Skill Injectors.
What is selling well in January
Sales fell in all locations.
Amarr remained the best selling location with 67bn of sales, followed by Dodixie with 57bn. Rens was 45bn then Hek with 40bn.
I greatly suspect the margins in these locations were under pressure given the levels of competition i now see.
Sobaseki did well though in a rare event Arnon / Alentene did not justify its Omega status!
That said, the Market Seeding did justify an Omega. Two actually. Not bad for 4 characters.
In Manufacturing i made 7bn of sales. So this is slowly working.
Looking at items that sold well:
- mining of anything did well - equipment, upgrades, implant. The expansion and new players and old players returning was a real boost to mining.
- rigs did well. Again, i suspect driven by new players and returning players.
- implants made a come back, though i have not really worked out why.
- Blueprints are dead. Very dead.
Manufacturing
The Oz Show had a great interview with Sir SmashAlot where he talked about his manufacturing activities to the tune of making over 1 trillion profits per month!
And the author of the blog I wanna be a Trillionaire, so frickin' bad... has moved into manufacturing and is making a good job of it.
And going back a few years there was a great youtube series Building my Industrial Empire (who is now back).
Early days, i am making some profits and will update this blog as i go. So far i have experimented with small items like missiles and ammo but also larger ships such as Orcas.
Ideally, i want to create a process that i can scale. Not there uet.
Seeding a player owned station
I am in the process of helping seed the Kihtaled - PleniMart station in Kihtaled. I now have three characters seeding items for sale which includes one which is dedicated to manufacturing. This is all low value items like ammunition, drones, rigs etc.
It is owned by Guns-R-Us Holdings and part of the Alliance Weapons Of Mass Production.
This may be impacting my margins given it is mainly low value items like ammo, drones, rigs etc. I am not sure.
It is going well. More players are coming to the Region and the well stocked station i suspect is helping this along.
I have also started seeding a station Tor2ga in Out Passage in UAJ5-K.
In total, around 11% of revenues came from the seeded markets in January vs 6% in December.
Planetary Interaction
I had restarted this but then stopped.
It is not worth the effort in High Sec. So, on my "to do" list is to move it to low sec but, as you would suspect, i don't have the courage to fly into low sec - so i am thinking about how to do this.
Research
For now, i have stopped trying to make this work.
Station Trading
Wound down to nil.
Alpha Accounts
I have 1 Alpha account with a character in Venal left. All the others were upgraded to Omega last summer to start Skill Farming.
Old Accounts
This is my third outing in Eve Online. I still have the characters of the prior two attempts and i have resurrected them all. One account is Omega and does manufacturing the rest remain as Alpha for now.
This month i decided to combine them all into one Alliance, the Merchanting Industry Finance Philanthropy Alliance.
Plex
I had 18,300 Plex at the end of July and spent all of that buying 12 months of Omega across all my Omega accounts (and another 12 months on one account because i was too far into a bottle of red wine to notice). So i have around 260 Plex left.
Thinking about whether or not to rebuild - for now i won't. CCP seem to be taking actions to make this less lucrative so for now i will hold off.
Items in hanger for sale
There are a number of items that i sell that can only be sourced from Regions outside of The Forge (the home of Jita).
To make my life easier, i buy them from their home bases and have them couriered to Jita to be stored ready to be couriered to their final sale destination. Makes life a lot easier for the cost of one transport leg.
Also, given i am skill farming i have a number of Skill Extractors and Large Skill Injectors sitting in hangers waiting to be used / sold - these are being sold down over time.
In all, some 226bn isk of items in Hangers.
Buy Orders
Buy Orders have varied over time and peaked in August at around 128bn. However, given i pulled out of Station trading this is now down at 11bn and mostly mineral buy orders in Khanid.
ISK
I have 124bn spare ISK kicking around.
For the last 12 months the average ISK in wallets has been over 100bn compared to around 50bn before this.
The reason for his is purely real life being busy and so not having the time to make sure everything is invested.
I have seeded the player owned station in Khanid. Perhaps more to go but most of it has been done. And another location i think to happen in December.
I now have a new distribution policy where i will distribute all blocks of 50 billion isk above 50 billion + manufacturing isk in my wallet.
Current Wealth
Current wealth is 2.521 trillion ISK made up from:
- Plex held as an investment 2bn ISK
- Items in hanger for sale 226bn ISK
- Items in hanger for use in business 11bn ISK
- Omega brought forward 60bn ISK
- Buy orders on the market 11bn ISK
- items for sale 2.52 trillion ISK
- less a 20% provision 504bn ISK*
- ISK in wallet 124bn ISK
* I take a 20% provision against the items I am selling. Eve calculates wealth by adding up the value of the sell orders hence it is possible to increase your wealth by buying an item for 100m ISK and putting a sell order for 120m ISK (in this case your wealth would increase by 20m ISK). For me, I want my wealth to be calculated at cost. I know that the value of my sell orders will likely fall over time as I update my orders downwards as competition reduces their prices before my items are sold. Hence the 20% provision is my best guess as to what the maximum reduction I would need to make to my sell orders as a whole before they are sold. In an ideal world I would value my sell orders at the value which I bought the items for.
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