Skills:Trade

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
Accounting	Reduce transaction tax by 11% per level.
Advanced Broker Relations	Reduce relist fee by 10% per level.
Broker Relations	Reduce broker fees by 6% 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

Proficiency at squaring away the odds and ends of business transactions, keeping the checkbooks tight. Each level of skill reduces sales tax by 11%. Sales tax starts at 5%.

Attributes:
Multiplier:	3x
Price:	5M ISK
Alpha max level:	Alpha pilot can not train this skill.
Prerequisites:	Trade IV
IV required for:	Advanced Broker Relations
Notes:	At level 5, sales tax can be reduced to 3.6%.

Bug:	The in-game description of this skill incorrectly states that Sales Tax starts at 5%; it starts at 8%. Please remove this note whenever the developers update the description in-game.

Advanced Broker Relations

Proficiency at negotiating the brokerage cost of relisting a market order at a new price. Each level of this skill adds 5 percentage points to the standard Relist Discount of 50%.

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 5 percentage points per level, permitting a discount of 75% at level 5.

Attributes:
Multiplier:	3x
Price:	20M ISK
Alpha max level:	Alpha pilot can not train this skill.
Prerequisites:	Broker Relations IV; Accounting IV
Notes:	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.

Broker Relations

Proficiency at driving down market-related costs. Each level of skill subtracts a flat 0.3% (0.3 percentage points) from the costs associated with setting up a market order in a non-player station, which usually come to 5% of the order's total value. This can be further influenced by the player's standing towards the owner of the station where the order is entered.

Attributes:
Multiplier:	2x
Price:	125k ISK
Alpha max level:	II
Prerequisites:	Trade II
IV required for:	Advanced Broker Relations
Notes:	0.3 percentage point reduction per level is same as 6% reduction per level when standings are ignored.

Contracting

This skill allows you to create formal agreements with other characters. For each level of this skill the number of outstanding contracts is increased by four (up to a maximum of 21 at level 5)

Attributes:
Multiplier:	1x
Price:	175k ISK
Alpha max level:	Alpha pilot can not train this skill.
Prerequisites:	Social I
IV required for:	Corporation Contracting IV
Notes:	Characters can have one outstanding contract without this skill, meaning those in Alpha Clone state can still create contracts.

Corporation Contracting

You are familiar with the intricacies of formalizing contracts between your corporation and other entities.

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.

Attributes:
Multiplier:	3x
Price:	150k ISK
Alpha max level:	Alpha pilot can not train this skill.
Prerequisites:	Contracting IV
Notes:

Customs Code Expertise

Expertise in cutting through the red tape of customs regulations. Reduces Import and Export empire tax in Customs Offices by 10% per level. This does not affect InterBus Customs Offices.

Attributes:
Multiplier:	2x
Price:	3M ISK
Alpha max level:	Alpha pilot can not train this skill.
Prerequisites:	Trade IV
Notes:	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

Allows for remote modification of buy and sell orders. Each level of skill increases the range at which orders may be modified. Level 1 allows for modification of orders within the same solar system, Level 2 extends that range to systems within 5 jumps, and each subsequent level then doubles it. Level 5 allows for market order modification anywhere within current region.

Attributes:
Multiplier:	1x
Price:	15M ISK
Alpha max level:	Alpha pilot can not train this skill.
Prerequisites:	Trade IV
Notes:

Marketing

Skill at selling items remotely. Each level increases the range from the seller to the item being sold. Level 1 allows for the sale of items within the same solar system, Level 2 extends that range to systems within 5 jumps, and each subsequent level then doubles it. Level 5 allows for sale of items located anywhere within current region.

Attributes:
Multiplier:	3x
Price:	3.5M ISK
Alpha max level:	II
Prerequisites:	Trade II
II required for:	Procurement;  Wholesale
IV required for:	Tycoon
Notes:	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

Proficiency at placing remote buy orders on the market. Level 1 allows for the placement of orders within the same solar system, Level 2 extends that range to systems within 5 jumps, and each subsequent level then doubles it. Level 5 allows for placement of remote buy orders anywhere within current region. Note: Placing buy orders and directly buying an item are not the same thing. Direct remote purchase requires no skill.

Attributes:
Multiplier:	3x
Price:	1.5M ISK
Alpha max level:	Alpha pilot can not train this skill.
Prerequisites:	Marketing II
IV required for:	Visibility
Notes:	Without this skill, you will have to dock at the station where you wish to set up a buy order

Retail

Ability to organize and manage market operations. Each level raises the limit of active orders by 8.

Attributes:
Multiplier:	2x
Price:	125k ISK
Alpha max level:	Alpha pilot can not train this skill.
Prerequisites:	Trade II
V required for:	Wholesale
Notes:

Trade

Knowledge of the market and skill at manipulating it. Active buy/sell order limit increased by 4 per level of skill.

Attributes:
Multiplier:	1x
Price:	30k ISK
Alpha max level:	III
Prerequisites:	none
II required for:	Retail;  Broker Relations;  Marketing
III required for:	Distribution Connections
IV required for:	Daytrading;  Accounting; Customs Code Expertise
Notes:

Tycoon

Ability to organize and manage ultra large-scale market operations. Each level raises the limit of active orders by 32.

Attributes:
Multiplier:	6x
Price:	125M ISK
Alpha max level:	Alpha pilot can not train this skill.
Prerequisites:	Wholesale V; Marketing IV
Notes:

Visibility

Skill at acquiring products remotely. Each level of skill increases the range your remote buy orders are effective to from their origin station. Level 1 allows for the placing of remote buy orders with a range limited to the same solar system, Level 2 extends that range to systems within 5 jumps, and each subsequent level then doubles it. Level 5 allows for a full regional range. Note: Only remotely placed buy orders (using Procurement) require this skill to alter the range. Any range can be set on a local buy order with no skill.

Attributes:
Multiplier:	3x
Price:	7.5M ISK
Alpha max level:	Alpha pilot can not train this skill.
Prerequisites:	Procurement IV
Notes:

Wholesale

Ability to organize and manage large-scale market operations. Each level raises the limit of active orders by 16.

Attributes:
Multiplier:	4x
Price:	35M ISK
Alpha max level:	Alpha pilot can not train this skill.
Prerequisites:	Retail V; Marketing II
V required for:	Tycoon
Notes: