A day in the life

So this is a blog I've been meaning to do for a while now, what do I do on a day-to-day basis?

This is a routing that has changed numerous times, but I'll give an insight into my current set up. I have 4 accounts:

Account 1:
- PvP "main", in Pandemic Horde, not involved in my trade activities. My first ever character.
- Jita buyer, also manages my long term investments
- Amarr seller

Account 2:
- Rens seller/transporter. Picks up items for the hubs, has the most SP. My second ever character and used to do all things, mining, manufacturing, missions. Still does on occasion
- Dodixie seller
- Pandemic horde seller, like the trade hub sellers, except the items are shipped by a group in horde, not by me

Account 3:
- Perimeter station trader
- Ashab station trader
- Tash-Murkon region trader

Account 4:
- Hek seller, soon to complete Tycoon V and then I'll create other characters to fill out this account

At the moment due to my current living/work situation, I get very little time in the evening for playing games, and none in the morning during the week. At the weekend I get a few hours, enough for at least 1 "Trade Run" usually, though recently I've been playing a little bit of WoW classic, which cuts into my EVE time.

During the week if I get chance I log into my station traders and update the orders, putting up anything I've bought for sale. If I'm feeling really motivated I'll log into one of my trade hub sellers and update their orders. Often Amarr as this is the biggest money maker.

Trade Run

When I say "Trade run" in this blog, this is what I mean:

- Log in my Jita buyer, and Dodixie seller
- Transfer all money apart from about 500 million from Dodixie to Jita Buyer using corp wallet
- On Dodixie, run down my quickbar, making sure I'm the lowest price sell order on items where I have sell orders, where I don't have anything listed I check the price difference between Jita and Dodixie, using the corp chat and both market windows. If the price difference is over 10%, i usually buy 3 of that item
- Once I have been through my entire quickbar, contract the items from Buyer to Dodixie.
- Create courier contract for Rens to ship the items to Dodixie.
- Log out Dodixie, log in Rens
- Repeat steps 2-4
- log out Jita, and in Amarr, whilst flying Rens to Jita in a Crane
- Repeat steps 2-5, except with Rens doing the buying, to be shipped to Amarr
- Log in Hek, repeat steps 2-5
- Once I have all the contracts set up, I set my route with Rens to go Jita -> Amarr -> Dodixie -> Hek -> Rens
- Accept the contracts, and fly to the trade hubs
- Once the packages are delivered, put the new items up for sale, I can do Amarr and Hek whilst I'm flying, then Rens once I arrive, then finally Dodixie, as it's on Account 2 with Rens
- finally, update my spreadsheet.

All told, a full Trade Run as described above takes about 2 hours, so is quite a commitment. Possibly not the most efficient, but as I can't schedule my playtime at the moment it's what I can do.

My favourite ship. I should buy a SKIN at some point

In amongst these, I may also carry out steps 2-5 with my Horde seller, but shipping through an alliance service, or fly around collecting items on my Tash-Murkon trader.

Task-Murkon is a bit different. He's set up in a market citadel in Tash-Murkon Prime, paying 0.1% broker fee, and sets up region-wide buy orders with a healthy margin. These range from t1 drones to faction modules and implants. About once a week I log in, and fly around to every station where I've bought at least 1million ISK worth of stuff, take it back to the citadel and put it up for sale. I often do this whilst Rens is flying around.

I very rarely do all of this on the same day, but this is my current set up. No doubt this will change in the future, and hopefully I can get back to at least updating a few orders every day, as I feel my profits suffer when I don't (you can pretty much track when I stopped being able to do this from my profit).

Hope that's been useful, interesting, or at least given you something to criticise about my set up. I'm always intrigued when I read about other people's methods, and there's not many talking about it these days.