Alpha Market Trading - 1.7 billion wealth

20 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 1.7 billion, so back on a rising trend.

This is day 41 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 250 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 Torrent for 342 million and the lowest is a missile blueprint for 2.98 million.

Ships are becoming a nice earner.  Lets see how they go but so far they have very high margins and low competition.

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 1.9 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 1.7 billion which is made up from

ISK 200m

Inventory 0m

Sell Orders 1933m

Provision 367m

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.