Trading
Trading has different aspects in EVE as you can see in the content of this page. What you basically do is buying at low prices and selling it at high prices. Or the easiest trading interaction in EVE: buying ships, weapons and ammo for your own use and selling stuff you collected on your missions. Many points are already mentioned in wiki of eveonline. So not everything will be mentioned in here if it exists on the indicated Page.
Character & Trading Alt
In the beginning of the game you should think about what you want to become in EVE. Trading is the least skill requiring profession you can learn in EVE (apart from being able to fly haulers). Depending on the way you want to play this game you can choose whether you want to focus on trading, doing it only along the other things you do in EVE or you have an alt with whom you manage all market related actions. There are advantages and disadvanteges in any of these options (this list might not be complete). So you have to find out what suits your needs best.
War Time
By the time you get involved in a war the first time in uni you will notice that it might be difficult to earn money since you are not allowed to do anything else than joining fleets or doing things within the station. That problem arises especially if you just recently joined or have a low skilled character regarding trading skills. There are two ways to work around this problem:
- Train the skills that your character is able to do remote trading or
- create an alt which you place in a trading hub (the most popular is in Jita) who is only there for station trading.
Market
In order to see what you get for your stuff or what you have to pay for the things you want you check in the market window. It is important to know, that the market window shows only the region you are in. Even if you are at a gate to another region you can't see the market "behind this gate". So the same item can have an entirely different price in a nearby region than in the one you are.
Selling & Buying
Indicated in the beginning you might want to dicide whether you become a trading character or just look at the "trading thing" as necessary evil. In any case you will not get around dealing with market questions when you play this game.
As a ordinary commercial being one want to buy items as low as possible and sell items as high as possible. This is not always easy.
Mission runners
Mission runners normally don't care much about prices to the stuff they collect since they make their money with the rewards they get from the agents. They just sell the things on their mission hub or at max haul the items within a region. But think of it: This mission hub may supply dozens of players with the same missions who collect the same things on their missions. So there are way too many items of the same kind in the market and prices fall. Just one region nearby the prices might (mostly are) much better for these mission items.
- Now if you are a mission runner think about selling collected stuff in a nearby region once in a while to make extra money.
- If you are a trader look for mission hubs buy stuff there at low prices and sell it high in nearby region or system where you know prices are way better.
... to be continued
