Another move, Null this time

 So, there's been a big announcement, Horde is moving it's staging from MJ-5F9 to E8-432 in Etherium Reach. This includes all war as well as peacetime assets, so i need to move as the market is moving with it. 

I've been able to safely ignore forward stagings for war up to this point as the market has remained where it is, but no longer. This is going to involve a significant logistical effort for me, as I have assets and ships in 7M4-4C and MJ- across 4 characters, including capitals, mining ships, materials, all sorts.

Step 1 is consolidating all my stuff in MJ-, which is what I'm going to try and do with my limited time tonight. Step 2 will be the move to Etherium reach. 

I've made these sort of moves before, and this one is all through "safe" space, so should be pretty easy, but a pain all the less. What's more though is it poses a big question for my industry effort. Do I work out where the closes industry park is to E8- and set up my industry there and hope Goons don't disrupt things too badly, or do I put things on hold/ move to high sec whole sale?

This is complicated by the fact we have my sister in law over on a once in a decade trip from across the world right now, and she is on and off staying in the spare room where my PC is, so EVE access is somewhat erratic. Also, I'm going on holiday for a week next week.

I think the sensible move is to consolidate in MJ-, then jump my assets to E8- and see where things are when I come back from holiday and make a call then. It's a shame as my null revenues were starting to outpace my highsec ones but this whole war is good for the game, and I'm sure worst case I can get set up again once this calms down, provided I don't lose all my blueprints in a fire along the way.

May Update - Industry

 A very strong month this month. I forgot to take screenshots of jEveAssets on the 31st, so I'm missing the values table for this month. However I have the graph, which I'll trim the latest data points off:

My net worth is 19.09Bn ISK, that's an increase of 6.34Bn or 204.5Mil ISK/day.

Nearly a 50% increase in profits on last month, which is a great improvement! Revenues of 53Bn ISK this month mean a profit margin after fees of 11.9%. This seems to be a good sustainable margin as it's been within 1% of that for the last 3 months.

I've been moving this month towards specialisation. As Lord Maldorer puts it in Clarion Call 4 (excellent watch, I'd watch the entire series if you haven't already) "If you build a ship to do 1 specific thing in EVE, it can do that thing very well". This applies to characters and setups as well. I've noticed that most of my profits come from t2 ship rigs, large and medium. Both my null characters can build them as can 1 of my high sec characters. I fell this is an area that ticks a lot of boxes for me:

1. it is "value-dense". Both the input and output materials are low m3 and can be quite expensive, meaning logistics are easy

2. The Margins tend to be consistently pretty good

3. The total market size is pretty large, so I am unlikely to be able to flood the market and thus keep my slots busy.

Therefore I intend to work my setup to be primarily focusing on that. What this means is training up my second and third high sec characters for t2 rig production (the easy part) and getting hold of some extra blueprints to expand my range of products within this basket. I also need to work out the best way of brining in material to null on a regular enough basis as the salvage market in MJ- already struggles to meet my needs with 1 character. The final step with null will be to work out how to balance selling locally vs shipping back to Jita. Alliance Jump Freighter services are cheap but it adds a time delay to everything, which isn't ideal until/if I decide to do my own logistics.

One way around this would be to fly my high sec character to the nearest low/null sec system in a blockade runner and dock in an NPC station, hand off the cargo to my null character who carries it to MJ- in another blockade runner, and the reverse with end product. This has the advantage of me being able to do it on my own time and not wait, but the disadvantage of it taking time and therefore probably not being scaleable. TBD on this.

On the subject of Alliance Logistics, Goons declared war on Horde and invaded a fringe region. This hasn't been disruptive in any way yet but it has given the market a bit of a kick. I came back to ~4Bn in my null wallet as people fit up ships and gear up for the war, which is great for the game and for me! Remains to be seen if goons will actually push into Horde homelands or whether they will get bored before that point (I suspect the latter, despite the reddit spam) but either way a conflict between blocks can only be good for the game as a whole.

On targets for the month I smashed my 5Bn target, though I did not keep my reaction slots busy. The local reactions market has been weird recently but I'm hoping things pick up and I can start utilising this better again. 

I'd be very happy if I can maintain 6Bn profit for next month as I'll be away for the last week of the month, but we'll see how things go.

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.