Skills:Trade
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Overview
Trade skills help to increase the overall profit of market transactions by decreasing taxes, raising the maximum number of active market orders and granting the ability to remotely sell or buy items. Charisma has the most influence on training times of these skills.
Willpower and Charisma are important to learning trade skills.
The following are the skills in the Trade section (in alphabetical order):
Skill | Purpose |
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Accounting | Reduce transaction tax by 11% per level. |
Advanced Broker Relations | Reduce relist fee by 10% per level. |
Advanced Contracting | Increase number of outstanding contracts by 4 per level. |
Broker Relations | Reduce broker fees by 10% per level. |
Contracting | Increase number of outstanding contracts by 4 per level. |
Corporation Contracting | Increase number of outstanding corporate contracts by 10 per level. |
Customs Code Expertise | Reduces Customs Office NPC tax rate by 10% per level. |
Daytrading | Remote modification of buy/sell orders. |
Marketing | Sell items remotely. |
Procurement | Setup buy orders remotely. |
Retail | Increase buy/sell slots by 8 per level. |
Trade | Increase buy/sell slots by 4 per level. |
Tycoon | Increase buy/sell slots by 32 per level. |
Visibility | Increase possible range on a buy order setup remotely. |
Wholesale | Increase buy/sell slots by 16 per level. |
Skill Details
Accounting
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3x |
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5M ISK |
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Alpha pilot can not train this skill. |
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Trade IV |
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At level 5, sales tax can be reduced to 3.6%. |
Advanced Broker Relations
SCC regulations aimed at reducing market volatility mandate a cost for relisting a market order based on the Broker Fee rate applicable to a given market order at the time of the price change.
The total brokerage costs for relisting are calculated in two steps:
- The full Broker Fee rate is applied to the increment by which the price has changed if the new price is an increase to determine the brokerage cost of raising the asking price. If the new price is a decrease this component of the brokerage cost for relisting is zero.
- A Relist Discount is then applied to the Broker Fee rate and the discounted rate then applied to the total new price. The resulting amount is added to the increment charge calculated in the first step.
The total calculated in these two steps is the brokerage cost that will be charged for relisting the market order at its new price.
The standard Relist Discount on the total price brokerage fee has been set by the SCC at 50%. Advanced Broker Relations increases that discount by 6 percentage points per level, permitting a discount of 80% at level 5.
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3x |
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20M ISK |
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Alpha pilot can not train this skill. |
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Broker Relations IV; Accounting IV |
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5 percentage point discount per level is same as 10% reduction per level. Was the Margin Trading skill prior to 2020-03-10, which reduced the amount of ISK that had to be held in the market alongside a buy order before it was filled. |
Advanced Contracting
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10x |
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250M ISK |
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Alpha pilot can not train this skill. |
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Contracting V |
Broker Relations
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2x |
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125k ISK |
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II |
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Trade II |
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0.3 percentage point reduction per level is same as 10% reduction per level when standings are ignored. |
Contracting
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1x |
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175k ISK |
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Alpha pilot can not train this skill. |
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Social I |
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Corporation Contracting IV |
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Characters can have one outstanding contract without this skill, meaning those in Alpha Clone state can still create contracts. |
Corporation Contracting
For each level of this skill the number of concurrent corporation/alliance contracts you make on behalf of your corporation is increased by 10 up to a maximum of 60.
This skill has no effect on contracts you make personally.
There is no limit on the number of contracts a corporation can assign to itself.
Corporations have a hard limit of 500 outstanding public contracts.![]() |
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3x |
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150k ISK |
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Alpha pilot can not train this skill. |
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Contracting IV |
Customs Code Expertise
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2x |
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3M ISK |
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Alpha pilot can not train this skill. |
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Trade IV |
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Only affects NPC tax rate of planetary customs offices. The NPC tax rate is only charged for player-owned customs offices in high-security space; NPC-owned (Interbus) customs offices and customs offices outside of high-security space do not charge NPC taxes and are therefore not affected by this skill. |
Daytrading
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1x |
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15M ISK |
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Alpha pilot can not train this skill. |
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Trade IV |
Marketing
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3x |
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3.5M ISK |
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II |
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There are no prerequisites for this skill. |
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This skill allows you to sell off assets located at other stations in the region (based on skill level) as either sell orders or by selling directly to buy orders. Without this skill, you can only create sell orders or sell items immediately if you are docked at the same station as the item. |
Procurement
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3x |
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1.5M ISK |
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Alpha pilot can not train this skill. |
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Marketing II |
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Without this skill, you will have to dock at the station where you wish to set up a buy order |
Retail
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2x |
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125k ISK |
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Alpha pilot can not train this skill. |
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Trade II |
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Trade
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1x |
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30k ISK |
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III |
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Tycoon
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6x |
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125M ISK |
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Alpha pilot can not train this skill. |
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Wholesale V; Marketing IV |
Visibility
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3x |
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7.5M ISK |
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Alpha pilot can not train this skill. |
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Procurement IV |
Wholesale
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4x |
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35M ISK |
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Alpha pilot can not train this skill. |
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Retail V; Marketing II |
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