Alpha Market Trading - 1.5 billion wealthj

17 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 1.5 billion, so back on a rising trend.

This is day 38 of this project.

Changes to strategy appear to be working

I made two changes to my strategy.  Refinements really.

1) Be really careful to avoid higher competition.  That is really working now.  I am avoiding any item that has more competition than items that sell per day.  I.e. if 1 of an item sells per day then i will make sure there is only one other active competitor.  An "active" competitor is someone who is updating their prices daily.

2) Go back to selling low value but very high margin items.  Therefore, i have added two more characters on my second alpha account.  Not yet needed them but i soon will.

Range of Items sold

I am now happy to go to a maximum of 200 million purchase price in Jita.  But also happy to be as low as 100k.

Right now, the most valuable item i have for sale is a Prorator for 179,900,000 and the lowest is a missile blueprint for 2,976,000.

These missile Blueprints are great earners.  Very low competition and very high margins.  I can buy them from Sell Orders in Jita for 600k and sell them in Dodixie for 2.9 million.  It may be small beer to me now but i pays the broker fees for updating Sell Orders.

More recently, i am finding that Ships are good high value sellers.  Low competition.  Couriers are easily found to transport them.

Sell Orders now in Dodixie

Each character has a maximum of 17 order slots = 17 x 5 = 85 slots in total.

Right now i am using 42 slots, so 43 spare slots.

Comes to a total of 1.8 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 1.5 billion which is made up from

ISK 53m

Inventory 0m

Sell Orders 1831m

Provision 366m

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.