Alpha Market Trading - 1.2 billion and a change of strategy

14 March 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 1.2 billion, no change in 5 days.

This is day 35 of this project.

Changes to strategy

The problem is not sales, it is the cost of updating orders combined with higher competition for values over 40 million which depletes the profits very quickly.

Therefore, i am making two adjustments to my strategy.

1) Be really careful to avoid higher competition.  That sounds obvious but is more important given the Broker Fee costs.  That will reduce the range of items i can sell.

2) Go back to selling low value but very high margin items.  Therefore, i have added to more characters to my second account to be placed in Dodixie.  That will mean 5 characters in Dodixie each with 17 order slots = 85 available slots in total.

It will take me a while to trade out of the higher competition items but at least i feel we are moving in the right direction.

2 New Characters

Lord Uxbridge: he the was commander of the cavalry at the Battle of Waterloo, and second in command of the Army.

Sergeant Charles Ewart: he was the soldier that captured the French Eagle.

Sell Orders now in Dodixie

Each character has a maximum of 17 order slots = 17 x 3 = 51 slots in total.

Right now i am using 46 slots, so 5 spare slots.

Comes to a total of 1.4 billion 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 1.2 billion which is made up from

ISK 8m

Inventory 0m

Sell Orders 1428m

Provision 286m

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.