Alpha Market Trading - general tips on the mechanics of making this all work

Now that my project of taking an account from alpha to Omega and keeping it there is completed, below are some tips.

Excel

Excel is your friend.  It manages your business.  The Excel sheets you start off with when you isk is 10 million will be the foundations when your wealth is 2 trillion.

Start with them early and you will only get better as you build on them.

In a post in the near term i will show the sheets i used but don't underestimate the enjoyment of starting with spreadsheets you design yourself and then iterating them to greatness.

Copying from game to excel

The game is very much like a word doc, or excel spreadsheet.  Right clicking the mouse on an item name, character name etc and pressing copy, or selecting a list of items and right click - copy or CTRL C puts the info into your clipboard.

And then that can be pasted to Excel as text.

Items in your inventory, items from the market browser, items of text in descriptions etc.  you name it.  it all copies over.

Copying from excel to the game

Works exactly the same way.  Text can be copied from any platform into any text box in the game including your market quickbar.  Or the MultiBuy.  etc.

And its not just Excel.  You can copy text from word docs, websites etc.  The game will attempt to work out what you are meaning (so try and get the exact name).

Eve Excel add in

If you don't use any third party tools that keep track of your items, sell orders etc (like me, i don't use any of those) then the Eve Excel add in is a must.

In a following post i will show the spreadsheets and Eve Excel add in formulas i used.

Ingame Quickbar

Don't view this as a permanent list of items.  Look at it as a temporary list that is fed from copying and pasting from excel.

Multibuy

A beautiful function.  This allows you to buy a whole list of items in one shot rather than double clicking on each item and buying each item individually.

you can review the cost of each item vs Regional average to make sure you are not buying something at a stupid price.

But this saves a load of time.