Riding the wave of CCP sales

 CCP have recently put out 2 big sales on Skill Injectors, first one for cash and then a 2-4-1 in the NES store.

During the cash sale I bought 30 for up to 490mil each and sold them for 535, an after tax profit of ~732mil.

Then during the NES sale, I picked up 100 for 390 mil, and the day after it ended the price jumped back up and I sold them all for 433mil, an after tax profit of 793mil. So all told a profit of 1.5Bn ISK in a couple of weeks on a 30Bn investment. I could have held on to the injectors for greater margins, but I've decided to cash in my win and put the money somewhere else. 

PLEX spiked hard to just under 7mil each during the NES sale, but has since fallen back. I was able to pick up 7000 PLEX for 6.1mil today, as the liquidity (that is, people with money looking to buy PLEX) has dried up. The margins on offer aren't necessarily going to be as big as with SE, but as so many people bought into skill extractors ( I saw screenshots of people with thousands, and months of supply went through Jita in a few days) that I think PLEX is more likely to be a faster ROI over the next few months than SE. I can just see SE ending up being like HyperCores where stocks are so massive that the price just doesn't increase much.

Speaking of HyperCores, they've dropped again. Hard. People with big stockpiles liquidated them en masse to grab cheap SEs, so they dropped in price to below 275,000 at one point. They've come back up to 290,000 in Jita at time of writing but that's still lower than a week ago. I'm still exposed here and considered picking some up for 250-260k but I decided not to in the end.

On a separate note, I've just had my second ever contract failure. Someone hauling 12.5Bn of my stuff from Jita to Rens decided to go through Rancer and got ganked in a gate camp. I always over collateralise, in this case collateral was 15Bn, so I came out 2.5Bn ahead. I'll put that money straight into another load to bring in to Rens. I won't link to the killmail but the gankers got a payday, the plastic wrap dropped with all 12.5Bn inside! I am glad I switched to paying people to haul for me.