My current status:
As things stand, I have 270.4 Billion ISK. That is 12bn more than on the 2nd of December. That works out to 631.5mil a day. Not bad but definitely down on last month. If I was to continue at that rate I would earn another 7.5bn by the 2nd of January, which would put me at 19.5bn so this is still a decent month of earnings. I've had, if anything, even less time to play EVE than usual. I was away the last couple of weekends and I've only have 1 proper "trade run" session a week, whereas I can usually fit 2 or 3 in. As a result I've been seriously limited to 5 or 10 mins in the morning to update a couple of characters orders, and that's it.
Looking at my spreadsheet for the 30th December 2017 for comparison:
As you can see, a year ago I was utilising just 4 characters for trading, and had 94.8bn. Over the last year I've earned 175.7bn ISK, nearly tripling my worth. With the newer characters and methods of trading brought online I expect my monthly profits to only increase on average, and I'm into serious money now. It's amazing how it snowballs when you've got some real money to play with.
Even though I haven't been blogging this whole time, I have been keeping spreadsheets of my trading at various points. At some point in the new year I'll make a post with graphs and analysis of my profit over time, to chart my journey so far. Unfortunately I don't have time for that today, but I think it'll be cool to take a step back and see how far I've come. I may be only 25% of the way towards the Trillion in ISK terms, but it feels closer than that time wise. Indeed if I could triple my worth again next year (unlikely) then I'll be at 810bn this time next year! I can dream I guess?
I have 3 accounts, with 8 characters dedicated to trading:
Jita Buyer
This is a character that sits in Jita and contracts items to my other characters. This character has little training, and mostly buys from sell orders and contracts the items to my other characters. I tend to have this character logged in to act as a real time price comparison whilst checking my other characters orders. This character also manages my long term investments, though that doesn't take much work. I've managed to cash a few investments out for 20%ish profit this month. I'm not doing a good job of accounting when it comes to these profits, but it's definitely earned me a couple of billion for very little work.
Amarr Seller
My main money maker, with ~123.8 Billion in active sell orders at the time of writing. I've hit a wall on this character, it only has 129 orders and I'm using all of them. I'm training Wholesale V then Tycoon on this character to increase this, and I'm finding I have a few items just sat in my inventory unable to utilise orders to sell. I'm not sure how much I can increase the sells on this character, but it doesn't seem like I've hit my limit in terms of ISK yet. Takes implants and faction/deadspace modules delivered by my Rens character and sells them in Amarr.
Dodixie Seller
Very similar to the Amarr seller, he sits in Dodixie, takes receipt of items, then set up sell orders. Currently has 58.1 Billion in sell orders. No news with this character.
Rens seller/Hauler
Like the other characters, this character takes items bought in Jita and sells them in Rens. Currently has 63.1 Billion ISK in active sells. He also hauls my goods from Jita to the other trade hubs in a Crane.
Amarr station trader
Sits in a player owned Fortizar in Ashab, buys from buy orders and sells through sell orders with a range of 1 Jump to cover Amarr. This character trades completely different items to the rest of my characters. I gave this character 1 Billion to start with, and he's currently on 4.8 Billion. Again, I barely touched this character. When I do have the time and motivation to station trade I almost exclusively use my Jita trader, as he makes more raw profit. I keep mulling this over, but I may end up cashing this character out and either setting him up as a seller in Hek (the only high sec trade hub I don't currently operate in) or setting him up to region trade in the same way as my Tash-Murkon trader. Either way this character is cripplingly under-utilised, so I need to find a way to get him making more money without adding much if any time to my existing trading activities.
Jita station trader
My latest, and more serious station trader. I have a character in Perimeter in a player owned Fortizar, with 0.3% broker fee that sits in one station, buys from buy orders and sells through sell orders with a reach of 1 jump. This covers Jita. Most of my items are bought and sold in the Jita 4-4 station. This character trades completely different items to the rest of my characters. I gave this character 10 Billion to start with, and he's currently on 27.5 Billion. I spent the time to get faction and corp standing up with this character, and this is my attempt to take station trading seriously. I've not had time to do much station trading on this character in the last few weeks, but he's still turned 2bn in profit. Not bad for the effort involved.
Horde Seller
A new addition to the trading roster. In a very similar way to the other selling characters, he takes items bought by the Jita Buyer, then contracts the items to "Valhalla Deliveries" (a delivery service for Pandemic Horde) to transport the items to the Horde Keepstar in O-V. He then sells them there for a profit. He trades primarily T2 modules, drones and scan probes. I set him up with 1bn and he's currently at 1.47 Bil in sell orders with 370mil of items en route. I'm really happy with the progress of this character, as I don't do the hauling myself he takes very little work and is making good money. I can log in one morning, update his sell orders, buy some new items and set up a courier contract, and by the next morning my items are there and there is money in the wallet to buy another shipment. I should have started this character trading a lot sooner!
Tash-Murkon Region trader
Another new character, and a different strategy altogether. This character sits in a player owned Fortizar in Tash-Murkon prime, and set up regional buy orders for modules, implants and drones. When a lot of orders have been filled I fly around and collect it all to sell in Tash-Murkon Prime. I set this character up with 100mil to buy his own skills and get started, after skills he had 70mil to buy items. Currently at 335 million. Training to fly a Crane to collect items more safely. I'm really happy with the turnover and profit margins this character is making. The running around the region to pick up items is annoying, but I can leave my orders up for a week and a lot of them won't be contested, which is really nice. The margins are amazing as well. Will definitely keep this up.
