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'''5'''. You'll be presented with a list of all available trade routes from your current system to anything in your region. Before you go looking through the list, it's a good idea to enter your cargo capacity in the form at the top, select ''Profit per trip'' from the pulldown, and ensure that the ''System Security filter'' is checked (this will keep you out of lowsec). After changing any of the options in the form, click the ''Filter'' button to update the list of trade routes. | '''5'''. You'll be presented with a list of all available trade routes from your current system to anything in your region. Before you go looking through the list, it's a good idea to enter your cargo capacity in the form at the top, select ''Profit per trip'' from the pulldown, and ensure that the ''System Security filter'' is checked (this will keep you out of lowsec). After changing any of the options in the form, click the ''Filter'' button to update the list of trade routes. | ||
'''6'''. Each entry in the filtered trade route list will contain several pieces of useful information. | '''6'''. There is no 6. | ||
'''7'''. Each entry in the filtered trade route list will contain several pieces of useful information. | |||
* '''From''': This is the station where the seller is located (it should be in your system). | * '''From''': This is the station where the seller is located (it should be in your system). | ||
* '''To''': This is the station where the buyer is located (it should be in your region). | * '''To''': This is the station where the buyer is located (it should be in your region). | ||
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One important factor to consider before selecting your trade run is sales tax. The universal sales tax rate in EVE is one and a half percent (1.5%). EVE-Central does '''not''' include the effect of sales tax in its calculations, and this is a potential trap for haulers carrying low margin goods. While the vast majority of trade runs in EVE have more than a 1.5% margin between the buying and selling prices, it is never guaranteed. Smaller haulers are unlikely to haul low-margin items, since they naturally tend to focus on trading goods that maximize profit per cubic meter (m3) of their very limited cargo space. But freighters, and haulers with very large capacities, are more likely to select larger volumes of goods at lower margins, so they can fill their expansive holds, and they can get caught more easily in a sales tax trap. | One important factor to consider before selecting your trade run is sales tax. The universal sales tax rate in EVE is one and a half percent (1.5%). EVE-Central does '''not''' include the effect of sales tax in its calculations, and this is a potential trap for haulers carrying low margin goods. While the vast majority of trade runs in EVE have more than a 1.5% margin between the buying and selling prices, it is never guaranteed. Smaller haulers are unlikely to haul low-margin items, since they naturally tend to focus on trading goods that maximize profit per cubic meter (m3) of their very limited cargo space. But freighters, and haulers with very large capacities, are more likely to select larger volumes of goods at lower margins, so they can fill their expansive holds, and they can get caught more easily in a sales tax trap. | ||
''' | '''8'''. '''THIS STEP IS IMPORTANT''': Most of the time, EVE-Central provides good trade run suggestions, but it's always a good idea to double-check. Verify that the EVE market window data is the same as the EVE-Central recommended route information. As long as you are doing System->Region searches, all of the buyers and sellers represented in the trade route list from EVE-Central should be visible in your market window when you search for the specified commodity. This is also why you want to start in a system that is NOT a trade hub. The market in a busy trade hub, such as Jita, can be so volatile that between uploading market data and doing the route search, it can change significantly. Better to do this in relatively quiet systems with more market stability. For the same reason, you may want to skip routes that end in known trade hubs—someone may have fulfilled the buyer's order before you get there with the goods. | ||
=== Executing a trade run === | === Executing a trade run === | ||