July Update - Industry

My industry was a worse month than my trading, if you can believe it. A lot worse. My current ISK values:

And the graph:

My current net worth is 26.7Bn ISK. That's an increase of 700Mil ISK or 22Mil/ISK/day.

That's essentially zero. So what happened?

Well similar to my trading I didn't play that much. Also the move of null staging led to me resetting my null setup completely, and I haven't really got it started back up again. 

Worse though is that I decided to focus on T2 rig production and started setting up my setup around that. Then CCP introduced exploration upgrades for null systems to increase the number and quality of exploration sites, where most salvage comes from. That lead to this:

Which has lead to the rig market looking like this:

So I've been chasing the prices down, which you can see in my net worth graph. I don't know where the floor will end up being with salvage and if CCP will tweak it again. They have been trying to push prices for ships down in order to encourage greater usage so I can't see this being changed any time soon, and we haven't hit the floor yet. As such I think I need to switch to producing other things until this all levels out. I really do have the worst timing.

I will therefore look to switch to either module or ship production, probably modules realistically for the coming month (well and mobile depots). The main plus this month is I've added 2 more characters to my high sec setup who have slotted in easily. I think my high sec setup is fairly easily scalable without much extra work which is really nice. Soon I'll be up to 50 production slots in high sec which should really allow me to push scale if I'm clever about it.

Oh one thing I almost forgot, I also got ganked for the first time with something in the cargo hold in high sec. I had about 100 mobile depots in a blockade runner and was docking at jita when a tornado killed me. I normally go to an insta dock when I have things in the cargo but I got complacent. Cost me about 400mil in ship+cargo, but it would have been a lot worse with rigs in the cargo. A good reminder to be careful in future.

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.