August Update - Trading

 I was away for some of this month, and working silly hours for other parts, so an underwhelming month. The raw numbers:

And the full breakdown:

My current net worth is 1.263Tn ISK, and increase of 16Bn ISK, or 516 mil ISK/day.

Hardly impressive, but as I say, I've hardly played for a lot of the month. To be honest with my trading I've just been going through the motions, doing my same old same old, watching the numbers tick slowly up, while focussing on other things.

One thing I have been doing is building up PLEX stockpiles using profits. Up to 99k now, 1000 more and I'll be at the 100k I was hoping for to take into the next FOMO sale.

I have been trying a little bit to get started in null on my main, which is actually a slightly more involved process than I remember. A lot about null life is getting to know the geography, what systems are where, where the Ansiblexes are, where the industry parks are, etc. etc. etc.

I fell into the simplest thing of death cloning, buying a ratting Gila and going not far from staging and ratting enough to pay the Gila off by doing Forsaken Hubs, but I haven't achieved much more than that. More on what I'm doing to get settled in another post but I'm trying to keep my game time focussed on that, or else I'll never really get the most out of the experience and I might as well stay in high sec.

I've also noticed, and I don't know if others are the same, but when there is a lot of stress going on in my real life, for whatever reason, I struggle to motivate myself to do things I find fun, such as play EVE. So you will always see a bit of a drop off in terms of activity and progress when I have other things on my mind. This is probably a natural response to stress, but I've noticed it more consciously recently where I finally finished work, and had a bit of time to log in, and wanted to, but just...couldn't bring myself to, and went to bed instead. 

Fingers crossed the worst of the work stress is behind me so I can get the lay of the land. I half remember the lay of the land in Catch from over a decade ago, but Tenerifis is a completely different animal that I'm still getting used to.

July Update -Trading

 A delayed update as work has been insane with a lot of out of hours work followed by being away for a week on holiday, but July was a fairly standard trading month, with not a lot to talk about. the numbers:

And the full breakdown:

My current net worth is 1.247Tn ISK, an increase of 27Bn ISK, or 870mil ISK/day.

As I say, not a lot to talk about here. I just went through the motions doing my normal regional trading strategy of buying in Jita and paying a public contractor 1% of collateral to fly the goods to Amarr/Dodixie/Rens/Hek and selling them there. It's easy, relatively brainless, and works out to about 1Bn per day if I do a trade run at least once or twice a week.

The only other notable thing is I have been buying up PLEX with my ISK I got from cashing out the last FOMO sale. I'm up to 96,000 PLEX at this point, and will probably pause accumulation when I hit 100k. Then use it on the next sale and on and on it goes.

I had been more focused this month on trying to work out a home for my main, settling on Brave Newbies. It was quite an involved process getting in but aside from doing a tiny bit of ratting I haven't actually done much here. Hopefully things should calm down a bit IRL now and I can get some proper play time in.

June Update - Trading

So, a bit of an unusual on this one. Here are the numbers:

And the full breakdown:

My current net worth is 1.22Tn ISK. That's a change of -25Bn ISK, or a loss of 833mil/day.

That's a dramatic decrease, but I'm honestly thrilled! 

So, what happened and why am I happy? Well, as outlined in my previous posts this month, I cashed out all of my Skill Extractors and HyperCores, as they reached my profit window and I could smell something coming in the NES. In the event I wasn't quite right in my guess, but I cashed out at the right time! I was able to end up with about 430Bn ISK to plough into PLEX, and then the day after FC dropped a 25% off Omega sale in the NES. I pulled the trigger for all 7 of my accounts, both trading and industrial, meaning most of my accounts are Omega'ed until the end of 2027.

Given I paid 4.5mil per PLEX and a years Omega cost 2700 per account I paid 12.15Bn ISK per account, for a total of 85.05BN ISK.

If you add that back in they I would have a net worth of 1.305Tn, or a monthly operating profit of 49Bn ISK.

A chunk of that is due to the increase in Skill Extractors and HyperCores before I sold them, and also I sold all my PLEX during the sale for a high of 5.1mil per PLEX (or about 12% profit before fees), which is why I'm sat on 445Bn ISK at the end of month. Once the sales all end I expected PLEX to drop in price again and I would pick more up. 

This ended up being exactly what happened and at time of writing I'm sat on 92,000 PLEX bought for (at max) 4.6mil each.

My trade revenues "feel" good though, and a large portion of my profits also came from that. I'm making trade runs regularly and am pretty happy with that part of the business, even though it isn't really growing right now it's just feeding money into my gambling investment pool.

May Update - Trading

 Another decent month this one, here's the summary:

And the full breakdown:

My current net worth is 1.257Tn ISK. That's an increase of 30Bn ISK, or 967mil ISK/day.

That's decent, I'm happy with that. Some of the increase is down to an increase in the value of Skill Extractors, though that is offset by a decrease in the price of hypercores. Both of these seem to have levelled off a bit now, and I'll probably start liquidating them both next month to avoid being caught out by another sale. My general plan with these now is to build up PLEX during off times/cash sales, then spend it during NES sales on items such as Skill Extractors and Hypercores. Then ride the price rise, sell the items and invest the money back in PLEX. Rinse and repeat. If I can make 20% profit per go at this it will really multiply my ISK, as there is no real ceiling on the amount I can pour into this the market cap is so massive.

My day to day regional trading has been fine, no real news there. I usually do a trade run once per week or when a character has about 10Bn in cash, so it doesn't take me much time to keep on top of it.

One point the dipped my worth this month is the writing off of my 5Bn ISK loan to ARDCO. Ardel Corvallon made a short video outlining that he was no longer enjoying the game and was leaving. It is always a shame when a content creator leaves the space, however this ultimately is a game and I wish him well in whatever he chooses to do going forwards. I had never seriously expected the money back anyway, I was just hoping it would help drive some in game content which it seems to have done.

April Update - Trading

 A better month this one, though not necessarily for the reasons you might expect. Here are the numbers:

And here's the full numbers:

My current net worth is 1.227Tn ISK, that's an increase of 55Bn ISK, or 1.83Bn ISK/day.

That's a massive jump, close to a record I think. So why the big increase?

Well, there's one reason, and it's not to do with my regional trading. As pointed out in an earlier post CCP (now Fenris Creations, or FC I guess) made a return to FOMO sales in a big way. The headlines were 3 for 1 HyperCores and 3 for 2 Skill Extractors. Both are huge, but the hypercores are unprecedented.

As such I liquidated everything I could and dumped as much as possible into both of those items, with a heavy emphasis on Skill Extractors as those tend to recover in price faster. The sale has now ended and the price of both commodities jumped a lot more than I was expecting to be honest, currently up 44% and 21% respectively.

The more I think about how to scale wealth into the trillions the more I think this is the best way to do it. The market cap for PLEX adjacent items is massive, far far bigger than any in game items. This will allow me to keep putting more and more money into it and get a similar percentage return regardless as I am unable to ever have enough to meaningfully affect the market price. As such going forwards I'm going to be putting what profits I can from my regional trading towards this kind of speculation, and try and ride the waves of NES sales for profit.

With these current investments I am looking to start selling off hypercores once they hit 300k or we get to 4 months from the sale (late July), whichever comes first. For the Skill Extractors I want to sell off once the price hits 480mil(ish), with again a cutoff of late July to start liquidating. That's because I would expect more big sales in late summer/early autumn to entice people back in after their summer holidays.

March Update - Trading

 Another less than spectacular month this one. The summary:

And the full values:

My total net worth is 1.172Tn ISK. That's an increase of 11Bn, or 354Mil/day.

That's ever so slightly better than last month, but still terrible. So what's up with that? 

Basically, I've hardly played. As you'll see from the industry portion of events I've only logged in maybe once in the last 2 weeks, and even before that I wasn't reliably doing trade runs. Part of that has been that revenue is low. We saw in the last MER that velocity of ISK is down and prices are falling, both of which are bad for my business. 

I tend not to run through any character that has less than 8-10Bn in their wallet as the hauling contract tends not to be worth it for people, so less revenue means less updates, less updates mean less revenue. You see the problem.

that's in addition to me having stuff on in  real life, work being insanely busy, parents being down, I've had to sort out new blinds, had some building work done in our kitchen and various other bits. Yes I'm just as middle aged as it sounds!

I haven't actually set up seeding the PleniMart yet, but I'm going to make that my main trading priority this month. Hopefully opening up a new revenue stream can help with my motivation and cash flow. It should also help with the quarter of a trillion I have lying around in wallets doing nothing for me.

On that note, I have noticed that PLEX has been trending up, slowly but consistently for over a month now. I'm not sure why it has though, as there hasn't been any particular sales from CCP or anything. Maybe we're reaching a natural turning point where players view it as being cheap enough to PLEX their accounts and we're seeing increased demand? Not sure. One I'll be keeping an eye on though if it continues on this upward trend. I could easily throw 100Bn at it as a sort of hedge.

February Update - Trading

 Not an amazing month this one, I hardly played for the first 2 weeks and it showed. Still, here are the numbers:

And the full breakdown:

My current net worth is 1.161Tn ISK. That's an increase of 8Bn, or 285mil/ISK/day.

So that's pretty poor, why so bad?

Well, as explained, I basically didn't play for the first 2 weeks, but additionally, when I was updating my "investments" towards the end of the month I realised I had 100 extra master-at-arms cerebral accelerators listed on my sheet than I actually had in my inventory. This wasn't a new mistake and was listed on my last sheet, so I could go back and adjust my accounting there, but that could get messy so I'm just updating it here. So operating profit wise I'm probably about 6Bn better than that.

Additionally, I've not really been doing anything new with my money. What I am starting to prep for is seeding a market to branch out. I've chosen the "PleniMart" in Kihtalid for this experiment. It ranks in the top 40 markets galaxy wide and is being operated by Thanak of the Building my Industrial empire series. Well worth a watch. What started out as one man trying to get into industry has turned into an alliance encompassing high sec and null sec, and has pulled in the likes of ARDCO into its ranks. 

This planned seeding will be using different items to my normal regional trading, likely more common items to get greater turnover. I will also be competing with Croda, who has recently started seeding this station. We'll see how this goes. I suspect my item choices might be slightly different from his, but greater supply can only help further cement PleniMart as a real secondary trade hub.

This should also help me hit one of my other goals I've had for a while to hit 1Tn in sell orders, which I'm also there at right now.

January update - Trading

 A bit of a delayed update this one, for a couple of reasons. Real life has thrown up a fair amount over the last month or so, with work being pretty hellish. We had a number of time critical bits combined with major incidents and our product owner is leaving us, so I've picked up some of his responsibilities in his absence. So I've had very little time for coding and little time and energy for gaming. I've also been ill this last week or so, well enough to work but ill enough to not want to sit staring at a screen gaming. The worst kind of illness. 

Anyway, my numbers from the end of Jan:

And the full breakdown:

I have a net worth of 1.153Tn ISK. That's an increase of 31Bn ISK, or 1Bn/day.

All things considered I'm pretty pleased with that. I haven't done as many trade runs as usual, but I'm back to making a healthy profit again which is great. I've also gone in and done 1 or 2 updates from some expired orders in sobaseki (far right of the sheet) in addition to my normal sale locations of Amarr, Rens, Hek and Dodixie. It's not a big earner but I want to liquidate that before deciding if I want to pick it up as a proper sale location again.

Some investment increases have helped as well, Large Skill Injectors have taken a bit of a jump, as well as hypercores taking another step towards PLEX parity. I've begun liquidating these, hoping to be completely free of HyperCores by the end of March realistically.

Loans

You may have noticed an extra line in my summary, "loans". This is just one loan actually, but I've left it as a plural in case I end up giving more out. Ardel Corvallon, COE of ARDCO and creator of the series Zero to fuel tycoon has begun expanding into wanting to run a buyback to support his miners and get some materials for his corps fuel block production. I've spoken to him on and off over the last few months, he seems like a good guy who's passionately trying to carve out his own niche in EVE, and a number of people seem drawn to his enterprise. I've been keen to support him, even though creating fuels blocks doesn't really fit with my style of industry, so I offered him investment if he needs it. 

I was initially turned down, as he was keen to learn from a smaller base and build up, which is probably the best way and I respect that. However to get some seed money for his buy back he came to me and one other anonymous benefactor asking for 5Bn at a 4% interest rate, with an unspecified return rate.

Now on the face of it this isn't great for me, 4% return for an indeterminate amount of time isn't great. However, this is really about me supporting another content creator in the game, and helping to make the EVE cluster feel more alive, so I'm more than happy to provide this, even if, through burnout, personal circumstance or simply a scam I never get the 5.2Bn. It's hardly a major loss for me (I've lost more to erroneous broker fees than that!).

I'm keen to see where his journey takes him, and how he can make this scale and work in the future.

End of Year 2025

 This year has been eventful. A year when I've thrown myself fully into the game, and upped both my activity and variety of what I do. Where I lost my Null sec "home" of the last 10 years, and where I find myself in a very different situation tot he start of 2025. So let's recap.

Trading

So, there's a bit to talk about here, but first here's the numbers:

And the whole sheet:

I have a net worth of 1.122Tn ISK. That's an increase of -67Bn ISK!!

So, that seems bad. And it is, no question, but there's more to it than that. Well, the main one is this month I had to buy Omega for another year for my 3rd Industry account, I bought PLEX for 4.45 million each, and spent 16Bn ISK on that. The next day, CCP dropped a 25% NES sale on Omega time for 1 year. Now, my trade accounts (all 4 of them) have Omega until April, so i could have held off on this for 4 months, but 25% off is just too good a deal not to jump on. So I bought PLEX for about 4.815 mil each and paid 2700 (rather than 3600) per account to Omega them for an extra year through to April 2027. What this worked out at is:

4,185,000 * 2700 = 13,000,500,000 per account

13,000,500,000 * 4 = 52,002,000,000 overall

That plus the industry account means 68,022,000,000 ISK spent on Omega this month. 

That wasn't my only expense either, as I spent 2.5Bn getting some assets out of asset safety and shipping them to Dodixie.

Additionally, you will notice that there are significantly fewer HyperCores listed than previously. As the price of PLEX tumbled HyperCores were approaching PLEX parity, and appear stuck at ~383,000 a unit so I decided to start liquidating my stockpiles and use that ISK elsewhere, dumping some into PLEX, some into Large Skill Injectors and some into other investments. Those other investments I'm not convinced about, and tbh I could definitely use the money for my regional trading, so a bit of a mistake there. Not the end of the world though, diversification is a good thing after all. 

I've not been able to work out exactly how much I paid in broker fees and sales tax for my HyperCores, but roughly:

150,000 sold this month * 383,000 (average price) * 0.0458 (~1.21 broker and 3.37 sales) = 2,631,210,000 ISK spent liquidating hypercores.

So, factoring all that in, that's ~73Bn costs versus 67Bn losses for an operating profit of just 6Bn ISK this month. Really poor all things considered, though I'm sure there are other costs I'm missing here. Having said that I wasn't playing much for the latter half of the month.

All that equivocating to say I start the year with just over 1.12Tn ISK, but only 2 Omega subs to worry about later on in the year rather than the usual 7. Only 80Bn made this year, but I have paid for 11 yearly Omega subs in that time. 

Industry

The Industry half of my business has been my main focus this year, and is really where most of the money making has been. Here is the values for December:

And here's the graph:

My net worth is 59.8Bn ISK. That's an increase of 10.2Bn ISK or 329mil/day.

That's pretty good, though not quite as good as last month. Early in the month Logic Circuits spiked hard, up to 2.4mil at times, and everything else came up with it. This resulted in an enormous revenue spike in the early part of the month, as you can see from the dark blue line in the graph. 

With revenue of 68Bn in the last month I quickly found myself with a lot of money to invest. I did achieve this by stocking up on plenty of supply of all of the materials I use in my day to day. I bought tens of thousands of datacores, decryptors, salvage materials, PI. I bought materials for dozens of Cranes which ended up not really working out tbh. When I put Cranes in the oven across 10 slots they were costing ~123mil to build and were selling for 147mil. By the time they came our the sell price had dropped to build cost, leaving me with a potential loss after fees. I've decided to hold onto these for now and wait for the price to rise as it's currently at a yearly low.

I've mostly been churning out Rigs as fast as humanly possible. I don't know how many medium CCC II rigs I've sold, but it's a lot. The price has been all over the place but settled back to a build price of ~12.5mil and a sell price of 15mil. I'm pretty happy if it stays like this as the revenue is reliable and I can use them to build up my cash buffer while I wait for other things to sell.

Early on in the year I pushed my 3 accounts to 9 characters, moved them all to the same place and brought them online, with a system that I can work through in 15-20 mins if all I'm doing is setting off rig builds and doing a quick run to Jita. This is great as I often don't have more than this during a given day but I would like to expand if possible. 

Plans for 2026

I have 7 accounts, 4 dedicated to trading and 3 to industry. However, I only have 5 characters dedicated to trading at the moment, a Jita buyer, and sellers in Amarr, Dodixie, Rens and Hek. I have my "main" who is currently homeless and my former null seller/cyno character, who is sitting on a mountain of asset safety gear to get out. That leaves 5 characters that have been idle for some time. All of these characters have trade skills, and very little else. They've done a mix of selling in other hubs, station trading, and one did some building of Raitarus in the dim and distant past. That character is the whole reason I've got that blueprint section on the trade sheet.

First thing I need to do is to get all of my assets out of asset safety and up for sale in Dodixie. That will likely cost me close to 10Bn, but it need to happen to extract that value and clean things up. 

Next, I need to work out what to do with these idle characters. The easy thing to do would be to incorporate them into my industry. Add them to corp, move them to Akonoinen and get them churning things out the same as my other characters. For my Raitaru builder in particular this makes a lot of sense. I could "buy" the blueprints from my traders for NPC value to make the move clean and start from there. This is something I will likely look at doing this month.

The main issue that can arise from this is transport, I have 1 character who flies a Blockade Runner (BR) or a Deep Space Transport (DST) and another one with a DST. For what I do currently this is fine, though for things like ships or industry cores it can be painful as they take several trips. What I need really is a freighter. I have been quietly training one of my characters to fly a Charon, and I will likely buy one soon. I will keep to sensible limits when hauling, preferring multiple trips over stuffing too much value in to make a profit. 

I would like to start making a move towards building freighters this year. I think it'll be profitable to do where I am, though the start up costs are large. I will likely have to build up a month or twos spare capital to pull this off, but if I continue to make 10Bn a month this shouldn't take too long.

The final thing I need to do this year relates to my main. I like having Null access. It gives access to a different style of gameplay, to fly capitals, to rat as a serious form of income, to fly in big PvP fleets etc. I would jump in one of the remaining blocks but TBC Anniversary comes out soon (I know, WoW, BOO). It was always my favourite expansion and I do kind of have the itch, even though I definitely can't commit to strict raid times this go round. I will likely take a view on how into it (or not) I get, and if I ditch WoW this go round I'll jump into one of the null blocs and get some serious in space flying done on a ship with guns for a change.

I'd also like to thank everyone for reading the blog this year. I started this to keep myself motivated and on track, not thinking anyone would be remotely interested but it has lead to me being invited onto a podcast to speak to the devs, added to the think tank for ARDCO as someone who "knows what they're doing" and others. All that's to say it has really enhanced my experience being able to interact with others in this wonderful game we've all being playing more than half our lives, at least that's true for me.

Happy New Year!

Spreading out sales

 So I've been having a look at possible other sell locations for my rigs. At the moment I sell everything I manufacture direct to market in Jita, which goes straight back to input materials etc. But after chatting with Ardel Corvallon of ARDCO about Eden trade and general trade strategy I thought I'd take a look at Adam4Eve market checker tool:

https://www.adam4eve.eu/

That threw up a lot of the usual suspects, some of which I've had trade characters in previously. Previously I've tried to sell what I do in the other hubs, implants, deadspace mods etc. The issue with this was always demand for those high end items. People don't go to tash-murkon prime to buy a new deadspace shield hardener. However they might buy more common things, like rigs.

As I've talked about in other entries I primarily produce and sell rigs, mostly tech 2 medium rigs, as they have a consistently high demand. Mining barges, cruisers, battlecruiser, haulers, all need medium rigs. I decided to look at the price and demand for Medium CCC II rigs in Amarr, Rens and Dodixie and was shocked by the price difference. 

At time of writing the price of a Medium CCC II is:

• 15.5mil in Jita
• 18.3mil in Amarr
• 23.7mil in Dodixie!!!
• 22.4mil in Hek
• 19.6mil in Rens

For reference my build cost is about 13.5mil per rig.

There's very little daily demand in Hek, but there's plenty in the others. Dodixie in particular seems to be a wild mix of high prices and decent demand. I think next time some of my rigs come out of the oven I'm going to ship some to Dodixie and see how selling there goes. Logistics would be the tricky part of broadening my strategy like this but it looks like it could be lucrative. 

One thing I could do is sell some of the rigs to my Jita buyer when I do a drop off run at, say, Jita sell, and then I could include them in my public contracts that get shipped to the other hubs. This would mean I don't have to worry about extra logistics and my existing sellers can handle the market pvp, without having to run around on any of my industry toons. The downside would be that my traders would get this extra profit, not my industrialists, but it's all money my way in the end.

This might be my last day with the game for a while as I'll be travelling to family over the Christmas period, so something to try in the new year, but I'm excited about this new and potentially lucrative avenue into new revenue. I'm increasingly thinking specialising in rigs is my niche, so I'm happy to lean into that.

November Update - Trading

 Not a bad month this one, though I was hoping for slightly better. The upheaval of Hordes collapse has hit my potential profits, as has hypercores falling back slightly right at the end of the month. My current position:

And the full breakdown:

My net worth is 1.189Tn ISK. That's an increase of 36Bn ISK, or 1.2Bn ISK/day.

All things considered not bad, but as you can see from the breakdown I have 65Bn worth of stuff sat in asset safety, waiting for me to claim it and move it to a trade hub for sale. I haven't full decided where to take it but I'm thinking Dodixie as a good middle ground of price versus volume. I could have taken it out on the 28th, but I didn't head down there yet as I imagine the station and system will be camped heavily as lots of players in the same situation look to get their stuff out. I'll try in a couple of weeks probably once the heat has died down.

Hypercores have levelled out in the high 380s, so I've switched to using the sell value for them. Given how PLEX has fallen to 4.7mil on the buy side though they are not that far from PLEX parity. I think I'll start selling them off soon, particularly as PLEX doesn't seem to be reversing trends any time soon.

Aside from this there isn't a great deal to talk about. My trading is very much in maintenance mode while I focus on scaling my industry operation out (there has been a lot of change and expansion there) but my trading is doing its job of taking me a couple of hours a week to update the 4 hubs, do 1 trade run each, and pay for PLEX for all 7 of my accounts. 

On that, I may even start moving characters that I no longer trade with from this venture to my other one, for no additionaly PLEX cost. Would be a cheap and easy way to expand my operations without opening more accounts. We'll see.

October Update - Trading

 A more successful month this one, though I only managed to update my orders 3 or 4 times the whole month while I concentrated on Industry and had my play time restricted. My current position:

And the full breakdown:

My current net worth is 1.153Tn ISK. That's an increase of 19Bn ISK or 633mil/ISK/day.

That doesn't sound like an increase, but when you factor in that I spent 18.75Bn on a years Omega time for my second industry account it comes to a operating profit of nearly 38Bn. 

As I said earlier, I didn't log in very much to my trading characters. I'm concentrating on improving and expanding my industry setup mostly so my trading is in maintenance mode of roughly 1 trade run per week. My company have also issued a return to office order, meaning I have to commute to London 3 times a week now rather than once a week. This has been very unpopular and has also meant I can't sneak in half an hour here and there at lunch which is a shame.

The main story this month has been HyperCores. Someone (and judging by my transaction history and the market spike I think it is one person) bought out all HyperCores up to 444k, massively spiking the price. People then flooded in to try and liquidate long held stores and the price has fallen back. It has had a few days in the high 380s sell price now, and I suspect that is where it will stay for a while as people try and sell some of their stockpiles for a profit. As the price seems volatile I've listed the Jita Buy price on my investment section, so potentially undervaluing them a bit, but I'd rather do that than overvalue and then face doing write downs which are just depressing. If things stay stable or slowly increase I'll switch to using the Jita Sell like I do with everything else.

September Update - Trading

 A steady and relatively uneventful month this one, my current position:

And the full breakdown:

My current net worth is 1.134Tn ISK. That's an increase of 11Bn ISK, or 366mil/ISK/day. On the face of it that's pretty poor but during the month I spent 19.1Bn on a years PLEX for my first industry account so my operating profit for the month was a much healthier 30Bn.

Still nothing spectacular but a steady increase that I hope to build on in October. Though I have had a return to office order that may impact order updating and my playtime more generally, as I expect to get back from London late a few evenings a week which has knock on effects.

On the plus side my expansion of selling in Horde staging has been going well, with sometimes around 70Bn in sell orders and revenue comparable to dodixie, this is definitely worth keeping up with. Also I've managed to increase my sell orders to over 900Bn. The screenshots have been taken before trade runs so I have a lot of ISK in my wallet, but I am creeping towards the trillion in sell order target.

Plan for October is to increase my revenues, particularly in null, and push my sell orders higher towards the 1Tn mark. Probably still a few months away but steadily heading in the right direction.

August Update - Trading

 I've been ever so slightly more active this month, despite the summer slump. Having said that work has still been insane and on top of that we've welcomed a new puppy into the house, which has meant I've not really been able to have my late evening gaming in the same way. With that preamble out of the way, my current position:

And the full breakdown:

My current net worth is 1.123Tn ISK, that's an increase of 24.5Bn ISK or 742Mil ISK/day.

A good increase on last month, though still a long way short of where I'd like to be. Hoping in September most people will be back from holidays an activity will pick up, and I can get a bit more on in and continue my reforms to my setup.

In addition to my normal buying in Jita, paying someone to ship items to Rens/Hek/Amarr/Dodixie, I've also switched my null character to be a seller. Previously what I did with him was sit in Horde staging and trade PLEX. The margins were usually profitable, even if the volume was nowhere near what it was in Jita. This made steady money for not much input which I like. However the introduction of the global (should be galactic or cluster-wide really, but I digress) PLEX market killed this revenue stream dead. What I have started doing in the last week or so though is using a third party tool someone created to track items that need seeding and pick items from there to pay an alliance logistics service to import for me to null. The price of hauling is very cheap, usually coming out to about 1% of collateral, which is what I pay in high sec. I'm still building my quickbar here and only have imported about 25Bn so far, but I think this will be a good extra revenue stream for me. I also will be trading slightly different things here, more T2 modules and things like that. Though I don't think I'll be importing ships as they are simply too big to be economical to shift in that way.

I have also been slowly expanding the amount I sell in my highsec hubs. The above sheet is a snapshot when I logged in after a long weekend so I have a lot more in the wallets than usual, but I am well north of 800Bn in sell orders now, heading for my target of 1Tn in regular sells.

My "investments" continue to perform poorly, slightly dropping in value to depress my results by a few billion. Never take investment advice from me in any capacity, not that I'd be keen to give any out.

PLEX value continues to fall, with buys sitting at 5.35 million ISK at the time of writing. This justifies me selling my stockpile, and I'll buy more when I need it. I will need to buy a years worth of PLEX this month to PLEX my industry account, so expect a ~20Bn ISK hit next month.

Plans for this month are to continue with what I'm doing, keep expanding my day to day business and push for 1Tn in sells, and try and get more runs this month to get more revenue. I've been too lazy with this branch of the business for too long and it shows, time to change that!

July Update - Trading

 This month hasn't been anywhere near as active as I hoped. Real life was a lot busier than I thought it would be and I've played a lot less. Regardless, here's my current position:

And the full breakdown:

My current net worth is 1.099Tn ISK. That's an increase of 17Bn ISK or 548Mil/ISK/day. 

That's not a great month, all things considered. I've not played a lot and the summer slump is real, but worst is I've not managed to increase my amount in sell orders at all. Something to remedy.

My profits have been depressed this month by a couple of things. One, there was a summer event where you get given Quafe zero for logging in. I've thrown a few billion  at this on the hope that they jump back up in value in a month or two. Typical for my investments though this hasn't happened yet.

More significantly though CCP seem to be taking action to address PLEX hoarding and have been offering 1500 PLEX with existing real money packs. This leads to a increase in PLEX being sold on the market and the price being lowered. As you will know, I recently bought 24,000 PLEX. So this has hit my net worth. My plan is to use this to PLEX my industry accounts and hold on to it on the off chance of a good offer. Because I'm doing this you can pretty much guarantee that there won't be any more good NES sales forthcoming, so you're welcome.

Next month is to stop new investments and focus solely on the day to day. I want to get back up to 50Bn/month, which should be doable given my resources.

June Update - Trading

 I was away the last week of the month, and had my sister in law over for a lot of this month so I didn't have as much time to play as usual and didn't log in at all on my trade characters for the last 2 weeks. Still a pretty good month though:

And the full breakdown:

My current net worth is 1.083Tn ISK. That's an increase of 45Bn ISK, or 1.32Bn ISK/day.

That's a big increase on last month, though not quite a record. Considering how little I played I think this is a huge improvement. With 100Bn in wallets I've got a lot I need to rebuy, my sell orders have mostly sat around 800Bn this month which is good as I inch towards 1Tn sell orders. I'm going to try and push to 900Bn in sell orders in July.

There was a small bump in my investments as hypercores inched up in price, which is nice. Still going to be a while before I can cash out but good nonetheless.

I've also bought more PLEX, up to 12,000 now. The idea behind it is to build up a bit of a stockpile that I can use on any Omega + MCT sales to do a bit of skill farming on my trade accounts. The last sale like that happened in June last year while I was on holiday, so I missed it. There hasn't ben one yet this year, and there may not be. Worst case I use the PLEX to add omega time to my industry characters towards the end of the year.

In my drive to increase sell orders I've moved into buying more blueprints. I've tried to stick to blueprints worth more than 1Bn to be worth my time, and these are mostly ship blueprints. I'll probably expand this further, and look into structure and maybe structure rig blueprints as well.

Aim for July is to break the 50Bn ISK profit mark, while upping my sell orders to 900Bn. let's see how I do.

May Update - Trading

 A better month this one, even though I had my parents staying with us for most of a week towards the end of the month so I didn't get as much playtime as I otherwise might. My current position:

And the full breakdown:

My current net worth is 1.038Tn ISK. That's an increase of 31Bn ISK, or 1Bn ISK/day.

Being back at 1Bn a day is a good place to be, and it's been a while since that was true. There's very little to talk about terms of investment updates, which in some ways is nice. I've been trying to plunge as much money back into day to day region trading as I can, to get to the 1Tn in sell orders point. This screenshot was taken just after logging in after almost a week off which is why I had so much in wallets. I have now taken and reinvested this so it actually looks a bit better.

I did a little station trading in Amarr this month utilising the free trial of the EVEGuru module for station trading. In truth I only logged in to do some trading about 4 or 5 times, which underpins that that's not something I'm enjoying right now, and is reflected by the fact that I only made 500mil on that character. I won't be subscribing to that module and I think I'll probably mothball this character again. I can probably put that 20Bn to better use with my main traders. 

I did do a bit of station trading in Horde staging, almost entirely trading PLEX where I made 4Bn profit this month. I like this as it's only 1 or 2 items to watch and it's high value high liquidity, but low competition in null. I'll keep this up as it's very low input for the reward.

I smashed my target for the month of 20Bn, but I'm away for a week this month so I'm going to say the same target again for this month, if I can hit 1.06Tn I'll be pleased.

April Update - Trading

 A slightly better month all round here. My current position:

And the full breakdown:

My current net worth is 1.007Tn ISK. That's an increase of -66BnISK. This is due to spending 14,400 PLEX to PLEX my trade accounts for a year, which came to 86.4Bn ISK. If you discount that effect then my operating profit this month was 20Bn ISK or 666mil/ISK/day. Slightly better than last month but still not incredible.

There were a few sales this month which I rode to a few billion profit, and my investments are largely where they were at the start of the month somewhat implausibly. I think this sort of shorter term investing/swing trading might be a better approach in the longer term. I do still want to up my every day sell orders from ~700Bn to 1Tn and then the rest into investing. To get there though I need to do some serious expanding in terms of day to day. I think I get swept up in "opportunities" in places like discord when really I should focus more on what I know, the day to day region trading.

I have restarted a little station trading as well the last couple of days. Just 1 character in Amarr, messing around with the EVEGuru station trader module and I'm only 120mil up so nothing amazing, but I'll see how it goes.

Aim for next month is to maintain at least 20Bn profit and to pour that into extra sell orders. Should be simple but it reflects where my attention lies right now.

1 year back in the game

 I'm actually 12 days late in this. I picked up 5 days Omega time recently and I think there were 1 or 2 other instances of free PLEX over the year so I've only just had to re-PLEX today. I thought it'd be a good opportunity to assess where I am and what I've achieved in the last year. With that in mind here's my current trade position:

This compares to Last year's position where I had 778Bn ISK after PLEXing for a year. Today I have 976Bn ISK so that works out at 198Bn over the last year or an average of 16.5Bn ISK/month.

That's...actually not great. And wait, wasn't I a Trillionaire yesterday? what the hell happened???

Well, err...

Now, this might not look like it should have much effect on my net worth. And actually the impact was a bit less than I expected, but still dramatic. The NES sale meant that people liquidated everything to buy PLEX to convert to skill extractors, causing HyperCores to drop at one point to 250k..! (since recovered a bit) and send PLEX soaring to currently 6.7mil from 6mil yesterday. I bought my PLEX a while ago at 6 mil so I should have been quids in but I spent it on PLEXing my accounts. Still saved a fortune on that, even if 86Bn in one go is pretty painful.

I have 5 LSI's which dropped to 790mil but that's only a 5-6Bn loss in isolation. HyperCores account for another 13Bn or so in losses today.

I did recently buy 30 Skill Extractors during the cash sale and sell them a few days ago for ~5% profit after tax which was nice. And I've decided to spend 30Bn on 75 now with an eye to hopefully making 10% or so over the next few months.

All this does go to show the sheer volatility and unpredictability of investing in PLEX and PLEX adjacant items. You are completely at the whims of CCPs marketing team. I will probably keep dipping my toes in here knowing me, but I want to get to 1Tn of normal sell orders and then start investing in in game items more, like salvage.

All this doesn't give a full accounting of my operating profits either. If I add in the amount spent PLEXing my accounts (86Bn) and PLEXing my industry accounts (58Bn) I'd have a current position of 1.12Tn, which works out to 342Bn over the year or 28.5Bn/month. That's much more healthy and reflective of what buying in Jita and selling in Amarr/Dodixie/Rens/Hek has done for me. I'd love to achieve that again this year. Time will tell.

In September I also started my Industry challenge, starting from zero on a new character and seeing how I get on. Currently on 10.5Bn and loving the change of pace. Though one thing I was going to make a post about today that has now become a foot note is that Zydrine has exploded in price. Now up from 2,500 a few days ago to 3750 in Jita. I have no idea why this is and no-one appears to be discussing it. This has made mobile depots (for one) completely unprofitable. I'd love to get an idea why this is and if it's an isolated thing or a disturbing trend. I can't think of anything in the Capsuleer day event that would cause this but maybe I'm wrong. Suggestions in the comments if you've any idea please!

March Update - Trading

An early update this one as I'm going on holiday with the family this Friday so I'll be away from the game for a week or so. I was ready to come in here and talk about a better trading month, until I updated my "investment" worth....

Anyway, my current position:

And a full breakdown:

My current net worth is 1.073Tn ISK.

That works out to an increase of 9Bn ISK, or 346Mil/day. Pretty poor, but when you factor in that HyperCores have dropped by another 10,700ISK each to below the 2 for 1 offer value, costing me 7Bn (Ouch) then my operating profit for the month would actually be 16Bn ISK. Still not great but considering I've been updating my orders once a week I'd consider that an OK return on effort. 

Honestly I wish I'd never bought HyperCores. How they have hit an all time low versus PLEX 6 months after the sale I don't know. Well I know the recent drop was people cashing out to put money in skill extractors/injectors, but still. I have thought seriously about liquidating them and using the money for something else, but given that most of my effort is going into my Industry challenge I think now isn't the time for me to look into reinvesting 200Bn ISK. Maybe once things settle after my holiday I can revisit this.

Another thing of note is that it's almost a year since I returned to the game! How time has flown. The downside of this is that my trade accounts (all 4 of them) are running out of Omega time, and I'll be PLEXing them all in the middle of the month. I spent 86.4Bn ISK on PLEX about 6 weeks ago in preparation for this, but it means I need to find another 14Bn ISK in April or I won't be a Trillionaire anymore! Should be fine provided HyperCores don't drop to 100k or anything, and I'm only half joking.

I'm aware I sound quite sulky here, but I am feeling positive none the less, here's to a second year back in the game!