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As with other aspects of Eve, the first rule of trading is to never invest what you can't afford to lose.

=== Finding items that are good to trade ===

=== 0.01 ISK-ing ===

Once you get into trading, you will notice that a lot of people tend to over/undercut you by just 0.01 ISK per unit. Quite a few new players seem to have a problem with this - often getting annoyed to the point where they radically change their orders, slashing huge chunks off their profits. However, a more useful way to look at the 0.01-isking is that it is simply the game mechanism by which a logged on and active trading player has the advantage over logged off or AFK traders. Over or undercutting your competitors by just 0.01 ISK is precisely how this is achieved. So when someone else over/undercuts you by just 0.01 ISK, they are just getting their turn at the front of the queue. If you are there, updating your orders, you can simply update your orders and it is back to your turn to be at the front of the queue... On the other hand if you are not there, or not logged on, don't get so bent out of shape when someone that ''is'' active happens to be reaping the rewards.

And when you start doing some 0.01-isking of your own, try using your mouse-wheel to bump your price. You might like it, specially since it can be quite quick once you get used to it.

Of course, sometimes the market for a particular item is simply unrealistic, or maybe you need your trades to go through quickly for some reason - a radical price change might be called for... but a good trader will have identifiable reasons for making such a change, rather than it just being an emotional "''I'll show you!''" response to being 0.01-isked.

=== Finding items that are good to trade ===

There is an incredibly simple 3-step plan for finding good trading items:

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 As with other aspects of Eve, the first rule of trading is to never invest what you can't afford to lose.
-=== Finding items that are good to trade  ===
+=== 0.01 ISK-ing ===
+Once you get into trading, you will notice that a lot of people tend to over/undercut you by just 0.01 ISK per unit. Quite a few new players seem to have a problem with this - often getting annoyed to the point where they radically change their orders, slashing huge chunks off their profits. However, a more useful way to look at the 0.01-isking is that it is simply the game mechanism by which a logged on and active trading player has the advantage over logged off or AFK traders. Over or undercutting your competitors by just 0.01 ISK is precisely how this is achieved. So when someone else over/undercuts you by just 0.01 ISK, they are just getting their turn at the front of the queue. If you are there, updating your orders, you can simply update your orders and it is back to your turn to be at the front of the queue... On the other hand if you are not there, or not logged on, don't get so bent out of shape when someone that ''is'' active happens to be reaping the rewards.
+And when you start doing some 0.01-isking of your own, try using your mouse-wheel to bump your price. You might like it, specially since it can be quite quick once you get used to it.
+Of course, sometimes the market for a particular item is simply unrealistic, or maybe you need your trades to go through quickly for some reason - a radical price change might be called for... but a good trader will have identifiable reasons for making such a change, rather than it just being an emotional "''I'll show you!''" response to being 0.01-isked.
+=== Finding items that are good to trade ===
 There is an incredibly simple 3-step plan for finding good trading items: