Setting up Tash-Murkon

 For a while now, I had a character that set up region wide buy orders in Tash-Murkon region then flew around and picked it all up to sell in Tash-Murkon Prime. This is a good money spinner and I would recommend it to anyone as a good source of trade income (I turned 70 mil into nearly 7 Bil this way). It is though intense on the flying around part. As I don't enjoy doing that I've increasingly left this character alone making no money. So I decided it's time for a change.

I decided to set this character up as a selling character. Just as I do in Amarr, Rens, Dodixie, Hek and to a lesser extent Sobaseki. So I used about 95Bn ISK buying items on my Jita buying character and building up a market quickbar for Tash-Murkon. This was almost entirely implants, similar to my other characters. A lot of high priced ones for which there is no competition in the region. Then I set off to pick up my haul.

Normally, Tash-Murkon Prime is 10 jumps from Jita. But as Niarja is currently camped null security I decided to go the long way round:

47 Jumps! (I'd already made on in the picture). Still, something I can do in the background whilst working, especially as it's an empty BR I'm flying. Not so empty on the way back:

The tooltip say 86.6Bn, but it was actually closer to 95. Probably my most expensive haul yet! I was much more careful flying back with this, but I hardly encountered anyone, and no gankers. I safely landed in the IChooseYou Citadel in Tash-Murkin Prime. I chose the Citadel because it has a 1% sales tax, much lower than NPC. Also IChooseYou has a network of Citadels and mercs on hand to defend them/remove competition, so it's not likely to be destroyed anytime soon.

I set my sales up for mostly a 20-30% markup on Jita. In places slightly more. Nothing over 50%. I want to encourage actual sales, and totally ripping people off will limit the number of sales I make. So I ended up with the following:

134 Bn ISK in sell orders. I'll ilkely weave this into my normal trade runs, and have this character flying at the same time as my Rens seller as they're on different accounts. This fits my playstyle much better, and finally puts 100Bn ISK to work that I had lying around! Now just to do the same with my Sobaseki seller, and possibly look at some other high-sec opportunities ("Eden Trade" on the forums has been setting up shop in various regions without a "Big 5" trade hub to some success). Glad to have something ticked off!

September Update

 Another month, very little done. This one is even a week late! Don't expect big things...

I currently have 708.8Bn ISK. This is an increase of 8.5Bn. Another reflection of next to no activity.

I managed a solitary trade run, which was further extended by the fact that Niarja is currently taken over by the Triglavians, and is now lowsec and permacamped. I didn't even attempt to go through there and took the long route through high-sec. I'm not ricking a camp even in a bloackade runner with over 60Bn in the cargo! I'm beginning to realise that the biggest thing that's putting me off is the long 2 and a half hour full trade runs that I feel I have to do if I'm going to achieve anything useful. I need to break that down and do smaller things more frequently, like update orders on a single character, then do a mission or some PvP or something to keep things interesting.

To that end, I've finally achieved what I said I was going to with my Tash-Murkon trader, and torn down all of my buy orders, collected everything and put them up for sale in Task-Murkon Prime. This is going to become just another selling character, with items bought out of Jita or possibly Amarr (as it's just 2 jumps away). Region-wide trading is a good money spinner as you're able to pick up items for very low prices, but involves a lot of tedious flying around the region to do pickups. The way I play I'll benefit from treating it as just another stop on my run, or a run to do in parallel as he has his own BR, so there's less flying around. I just need to build up a quickbar of things to sell on this and the Sobaseki seller.

I have 4 accounts, with 11 characters dedicated to trading:

Sobaseki Seller

Not much to report here, has continued training trade skills, but I haven't expanded the items sold. Currently has 3Bn in sell orders.

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 am putting excess ISK into this venture, and watch delonewolf's EVE Talk to get ideas for things to invest in. Currently holding about 222Bn in orders and investments. A lot of this money will go to Sobaseki and Tash-Murkon.

Amarr Seller

My main money maker, with ~131 Billion in active sell orders at the time of writing. 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 117 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 135 Billion ISK in active sells. He also hauls my goods from Jita to the other trade hubs in a Crane.

Hek Seller

Like the other high sec seller characters, he sits in a trade hub in Hek and sells items brought to him by the Rens seller. Currently on 59Bn in sell orders. Needs to pay for his own PLEX every month, which isn't too difficult.

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 19.1 Billion.

Jita station trader

My more serious station trader. I have a character in Perimeter in a player owned Keepstar, with 0.5% broker fee that sits in one station, buys from buy orders and sells through sell orders with a reach of 1 jump.

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 64.5 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. He also farms SP and sells injectors on the market.

Horde Station Trader

Station trading in the Horde Keepstar in R10-GN. I set him up with 1Bn and he's currently at 12Bn.

Tash-Murkon Region trader

As stated, I've moved this character to just being a seller. Currently 4.3bn in sell orders.

Manufacturing Character

Nothing has happened on this character recently.