Month End Update - August 2026

I made 65 billion is in August 2026, from this i made an accounting payment of 5 billion to Omega my 5 accounts.

Therefore, my wealth rose by 61 billion to 2.423 trillion isk.

I have been giving away my wealth since July 2023 and so far have given away 629 billion isk in that time vs the 1.8 trillion isk i have made over that time.  So arguably i have 1.2 trillion to give away still!  I wrote more about it recently in a prior post including the recipients of the distributions.

Total Sell Orders were rose 474 billion to 2.6 trillion due to Seeding Stations being re-setup.  Buy Orders are now nil - i will need to get these back in action for my manufacturing.

Therefore, i have 2.6 trillion of Orders on the market.

Format of the Month End Review

I have shortened the Month End Update to what happened rather than the background to my strategy etc.  Those will be in other posts.  But lets move the waffle off here.

In future i plan to do a more in-depth analysis of what i am selling - setting up the spreadsheets to do the analysis.

2026 Aims: I discussed my aims for 2026 in this post at the start of the year and the half year review was in this post.

Omega / "accounting payments": I discussed this omega accounting in a recent post, a joy for all accountants (like myself) to read, i am sure.

My Sales Strategy within my Regional Trading Business: I discussed this in a recent post on my Regional Trading Strategy.

The basic numbers for August

In August had sales of 194 bn isk vs July of 209bn.  So a fall of 7% vs July and still way below the of 325bn.

That said, March and April were lower so i fear my sales may be making a new level around 200 billion rather than the prior 300 billion.

Other than June, the market has been quiet since March.  I am rethinking my strategy a bit and being more careful where i try and sell an item that has not sold in a location before.

June, i suspect, was boosted by the launch of Cradle of War.

This comes to average daily sales of 6.3 billion isk.  In other words, each evening i expect to see across all my accounts an additional 6.3 bn isk (less transaction taxes) sitting on the characters to be reinvested back into the markets.

although my sales are lower I sense competition is continuing also lower - so this feels like a market slowdown rather than me losing market share.  I have a lower number of orders to update each day.  Therefore, margins are starting to recover.  i.e. i am not spending isk in Broker Relist Fees.

Item profits were 66 billion isk which is a margin of 34% (66/194).  So clearly above the target of 25%.

But we must be careful in August.  I reseeded a couple of markets by putting up around 500 billion of Sell Orders.  That in itself creates a small profit (i put them up on a margin of 25% and take a 20% provision).  Hence, i estimated this created around 31 billion of profits.  Could have been more, could have been less.  We will get a better feel in September.

Furthermore, part of me thinks that the items i hold in hangers as part of the manufacturing project (some 300 billion) could be moving up/down in value and i am not able to split this rise/decline out from the normal trading.  Hence, as the cost of items generally rises i will benefit from a positive mark-to-market profit, and of course get hit when market prices decline.

Taxes and Courier fees came to 33 billion isk.  Within this, the broker relisting fees came to 8.0% of sales - again, we need to be careful.  The relisting of 500 billion of Sell Orders will inflate this.  I don't really know the true answer to i will leave this here and see where September takes us.

I am hoping for good news in September - my data shows that i have been competing on items where no sales are ever taking place.  i.e. making needless relistings on items that are not selling anyway.  That has now mostly stopped.

That takes the Trading Profits to 34 billion isk and so a trading margin of 17.7% (34/194).  Again, lets be careful of this margin, September will give a better guide.

And then from this 34 billion profits i pay the 5 billion Omega and this time add back that 31 billion of profits i make just by listing items for Sale.

That was how 194 billion isk of sales became 61 billion isk increase in wealth.

Manufacturing

I am doing what i often do, and giving this another shot.

The Oz Show had a great interview with Sir SmashAlot where he talked about his manufacturing activities to the tune of making over 1 trillion profits per month!

And the author of the blog I wanna be a Trillionaire, so frickin' bad... has moved into manufacturing and is making a good job of it.

And going back a few years there was a great youtube series Building my Industrial Empire (who is now back).

Early days, i am making some profits and will update this blog as i go.  So far i have experimented with small items like missiles and ammo but also larger ships such as Orcas.  So far i am not making enough to justify the effort.  I reviewed my poor efforts into manufacturing in this post.

Ideally, i want to create a process that i can scale.  Not there yet.

Seeding a player owned station

In the Khanid region, i relisted everything back into a NPC station.  And i have a new market seeding operating in Solitude (high sec).

In total now 407 billion Sell Orders.

For now the Khanid Sell Orders are me trying to run down the 300 billion of Sell Orders.  If it goes well i may keep it stocked.  Sales in August were 13 billion spread over 4 characters.  So not great.

The Solitude seeding operation is more promising.  One character with sales of 11 billion.  I am keeping this stocked and plan to add to it as a get a better feel of the demand.

Planetary Interaction

I had restarted this but then stopped.

It is not worth the effort in High Sec.  So, on my "to do" list is to move it to low sec but, as you would suspect, i don't have the courage to fly into low sec - so i am thinking about how to do this.

Research

For now, i have stopped trying to make this work.

Station Trading

Down to nil.

Old Accounts

This is my third outing in Eve Online.  I still have the characters of the prior two attempts.  Some went to Omega status after the June 2025 Omega / MCT deal but are now all back as Alpha Accounts.

They are though available to me with plenty of skills to convert back to Omega if i need to.

To make life easier in September 2025 i decided to combine them all into one Alliance, the Merchanting Industry Finance Philanthropy Alliance.

Plex

I don't store Plex.  As a rule i don't invest in items that Fenris / CCP can control as part of the commercial inputs into the game.  When i come across a deal i like i will buy the Plex in the spot market.

Items in hanger for sale

There are a number of items that i sell that can only be sourced from Regions outside of The Forge (the home of Jita).

To make my life easier, i buy them from their home bases and have them couriered to Jita to be stored ready to be couriered to their final sale destination.  Makes life a lot easier for the cost of one transport leg.

That said, i am going to start to review all this - it causes annoying volatility in my earnings.

The Asset Safety items from the prior destroyed stations for my Seeding Operation were all relisted.

So in all, some 223 billion isk of items in Hangers.

Buy Orders

Right now, they are at nil.  But i expect to increase them again as i refocus on manufacturing.

ISK

I have 79 billion spare ISK kicking around.

And i plan to relaunch into manufacturing.  So hopefully making good use of surplus isk.

Current Wealth

Current wealth is 2.423 trillion ISK made up from:

• Plex held as an investment 1bn ISK
• Items in hanger for sale 223bn ISK
• Items in hanger for use in business 11bn ISK
• Omega brought forward 46bn ISK
• Buy orders on the market 0bn ISK
• items for sale 2.580 trillion ISK
• less a 20% provision 516bn ISK
• ISK in wallet 79bn ISK

When i add up my wealth, I don't count assets I use in the course of my business such as ships, fittings etc nor do I add back any expenses such as skills purchased etc.  The wealth I disclose is made up of items that are ISK or are in the process of being converted to ISK or are used to generate isk that can be readily resold back onto the market.  Any ships or skills or fittings etc i buy are counted as expenses in that month.  The only exception to this rule is Blueprint Originals i use for manufacturing.  They are held at cost.

* I take a 20% provision against the items I am selling.  Eve calculates wealth by adding up the value of the sell orders hence it is possible to increase your wealth by buying an item for 100m ISK and putting a sell order for 120m ISK (in this case your wealth would increase by 20m ISK).  For me, I want my wealth to be calculated at cost.  I know that the value of my sell orders will likely fall over time as I update my orders downwards as competition reduces their prices before my items are sold.  Hence the 20% provision is my best guess as to what the maximum reduction I would need to make to my sell orders as a whole before they are sold.  In an ideal world I would value my sell orders at the value which I bought the items for.