Alpha Market Trading - tenth day, over 300 million

18 February 2026

The background to this series: i aiming to use Regional Trading between Jita and Dodixie to take an alpha account to Omega status.

My wealth is now over 300 million isk.

I am using two characters, both in Dodixie.  And i have a third character in Dodixie ready to start selling.

Couriering items from Jita to Dodixie

Today i came home to over 80 million of sales.  That is too much for me to carry in my Catalyst destroyer - so i am issuing courier contracts for someone else to haul my items from Jita to Dodixie.

i add 20% collateral and offer a 2% fee on all that.

So, in this first case, the items came to 84 million, so total collateral was 101 million (84 + 20%), and the fee offered was 2 million (2% of 101).  It arrived within an hour.

Sales

This is going slower than in the past, i have to admit.  But i am enjoying this.  There is a definite advantage for being at home - i can do my cycles in a day.

Minimum Margin 25%

Transaction fees do weigh at 7.5%.  Broker fees are 1.5%.  And now Courier fees 2%.  So 10% of my Sales are effectively taken up in fees.

Therefore, i will estateblish that the minimum item profit margin i will accept is 25%.

This is all with reference to Sales.

So, if i buy something for 75 in Jita, i must sell it for 100 in Dodixie.  The item profit will be 25 (100 - 75).  From this i will have paid 2m in courier fees (2%). 1.5 million in Broker Fees (1.5%) and then 7.5 million on sale (7.5%).

Leaving 15 million from the 100 million sale.

ouch.

Sell Orders now in Dodixie

The first two Characters are posting sell orders for now.  17 from my first character and 15 from my second.

Comes to a total of 378 million isk as Sell Orders.

Current Wealth.

If i only look at ISK + Market Orders + Items in Inventory that are to be sold (so ignore my catalyst, ammo etc), then my worth is 334.8 million which is made up from

ISK 31.8m

Inventory 0.4m

Sell Orders 378.2m

Provision 75.6m

I have always taken a 20% provision against my Sell Orders which reflects the Transaction Tax that will be paid when the items sell + the cost of reducing the price to keep it competitive if required + the eventual reduced price when sold.  In reality, i rarely end up needing this provision.  But lets keep things conservative and understand that the only ISK is ISK.  Everything else is an approximation until sold.