Salvage levelling out?

 In the last few months I have moved my industry operations to focus on rig production, particularly T2 rigs. On EVEGuru these things have consistently been high up on IKS per hour profitability whilst also having the advantage of being value dense and small in terms of volume, making for easy logistics particularly in highsec. 

However, CCP then released extra exploration upgrades for sov null to allow alliances to spawn more exploration sites, the main source of salvage. As such prices have been consistently falling and I've been chasing down the prices of my rigs to try and not get stuck with a bunch of overpriced stock. I've also started diversifying a bit more, dipping my toe into things like industrial cores etc.

This week though I have noticed that a lot of salvage has started levelling out, or even bouncing up a bit. A good example of this is armor plates:

Some of this uptick will be speculators deciding that now is a good time to buy (and it may be). It could also be SirSmashAlot messing with the market for funsies, which I can't account for. Or it could be an adjustment where below this explorers no longer believe it is worth their time to go and run relic/data sites and so the price levels out. If the latter then we will see rig markets adjust to a new normal, and my profits should start to improve again hopefully. 

Some rigs are still loss making, and this will likely bounce around a little over a few weeks if this is indeed to be new normal salvage prices, but we should hopefully get back to historic profitability, or at least consistent for now. But the last couple of days I've noticed some rigs with consistent profitability, not moving price much, which is great.

Separately I have also bought a Bustard, a deep space transport. This allows me to buy and transport 27 lines worth of mobile depot materials, or significant chunk of industrial core mats faster than numerous trips in a Crane. A nice quality of life improvement for 200mil. I haven't yet worked out a scalable approach to null industry yet though, despite furious googling, people keep their setups close to their chests. If I work something out I'll put out a "how to" to see if anyone can suggest improvements there. TBD.