tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597676555600759067.post5073956507074863203..comments2024-03-22T08:28:53.318+00:00Comments on marketsforISK: Jobbing your way back to profitCrodahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16620994327943613623noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597676555600759067.post-8330998410744689422014-07-07T08:16:22.196+01:002014-07-07T08:16:22.196+01:00I also used this strategy but stopped with this a ...I also used this strategy but stopped with this a while ago. Reason is that I have more liquid isk and order slots than I can use within my limited playing time. So for higher profit I rather work on items that make a profit now and fill more slots then spending time on updating prices on items that make a loss. There are also some items that are very volatile and reducing prices almost always results in losses. However letting the order sit for a while normally results in good profits eventually. Piter Presleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18025058537813378846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597676555600759067.post-69695736022586985812014-07-02T22:14:54.763+01:002014-07-02T22:14:54.763+01:00No, a certain faction ship, and it was a weird pri...No, a certain faction ship, and it was a weird price drop. I always check last 3 months sales befor making a purchase, this had been steady for a long while but anyway will take the advice, take the loss & find something new. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01703800713558595047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597676555600759067.post-62719787312417356072014-07-02T16:38:38.836+01:002014-07-02T16:38:38.836+01:00is this a certain deadspace armor repair mod?
htt...is this a certain deadspace armor repair mod?<br /><br />http://i.imgur.com/luZEm7a.png<br /><br />if so, i apologise for crashing that market<br /><br />anyways, i'd typically bite the bullet and just reinvest that 470m as croda said - you could probably make that 90m back from the 470 you reinvest within 1-2 days, and then get back on track to making more. personally i don't go for these sort of high-priced items because the numbers fluctuate way too much and i believe that having a 500m item sit there not selling for days/weeks is worse than having it sit in your walletAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11078008719122923428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597676555600759067.post-54956976538058568672014-07-02T07:14:51.154+01:002014-07-02T07:14:51.154+01:00How big a loss would you be prepared to accept? I ...How big a loss would you be prepared to accept? I currently have an item for sell that I bought at 560M and at the time was selling nicely at 620M. Now selling at 470M so if I sell I will make 90M loss or so. In the scheme if things won't hurt me too much but it's just thought if that kind of loss. Advice?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01703800713558595047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597676555600759067.post-91493385244473152182014-07-01T23:17:15.310+01:002014-07-01T23:17:15.310+01:00Agreed.
I only do station trading, but in the pas...Agreed.<br /><br />I only do station trading, but in the past I used to sometimes hold onto items in these situations waiting for the price to get back to a profitable spot. It usually didn't and I'd eventually get tired of waiting and sell the item for a loss.<br /><br />Now, I just sell it. I'm not big enough to control the market, so I don't try to. <br /><br />But...<br /><br />Sometimes there'll be opportunities. Recently I was trading an item that had for months stayed in the 40m buy/50m sell range. It only had one buy order listed - 2 items at 40m. So I put up a buy order under it for 5 items at 15m. Someone sold two to the 40m order and then one to me at 15m that I promptly put up for sale for 50m. Eventually several other people added buy orders in the 15m-16m range - far below the normal price, but making it appear to anyone wandering by like a real price. And then people started dropping their sell orders to come closer to the buy price - when there were several sell orders for around 25m I bought them up and reposted them for 50m. Eventually the buy price has moved back up to the old 40m level and the sell price stabilized at around 50m. But I had bought several of the items in the meantime for 15-20m and also a bunch for 25m. So while I might not be a market maker, there are occasions when the market can be manipulated in a small scale. Jack Dancerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15759682366213590631noreply@blogger.com