Increasing my maximum investment

I've had isk building up lately and nothing to invest it in. I need an opportunity which will increase the size and return of my total investment, ideally without adding effort.

This brings me back, after many years, to the idea of copying titan blueprints. But first, some rumination:

If I invest 1.2 billion isk in a capital component blueprint, I spend 1.81 months researching it and then sell it for a profit of maybe 144 million isk, which comes to 12% APM (monthly profit). More APM is better, but the size of the investment also matters: If I make 100% APM on an investment of a million isk, my profit after a month is fuck all. If I make 12% on an investment of 1.2 billion, my profit is 144 million. If I make 5% on an investment of 120 billion, as I would be if I kept my capital manufacturing process running at capacity, then I make 6 billion.

Larger investments have lower APM. You could keep your investments small, but there's a limit to how many you can have going at once. If I put my entire net worth into capital component blueprint research I could make 48 billion per month*, but I would need 300 material research slots, which is 7 large towers, and 10 accounts, to keep it going. While fueling 7 towers and installing a thousandish research runs per 1.81 months isn't impossible, it would get old quickly.

If we want to increase income without increasing the number of slots we run, we have to make a larger per-slot investment at the cost of lower APM. The trick here is that you can't increase your investment by more than your APM decreases -- if investment doubles but APM halves, you're making the same amount of money.

So let's look at copying titan blueprints:



I'll do the math for you: A ragnarok blueprint increases per-slot investment by a factor of 56, while decreasing APM by a factor of 9. This yields 6x the income per slot. The downside is that 144 million times 6 is not a huge number, and getting that return eats a vast amount of liquidity. Liquidity is a Good Thing.

Just eyeballing the BPC market it looks like I could probably put over a trillion isk into titan blueprints before I crash it, so it is something I could dump profits into for a very long time indeed.

*This would actually just crash the market.

[reporting interval] financial report

Two-fifths of a trillion is a milestone I guess.

Optimal

Researched from 0/0. This took a while.

Unfortunately this doesn't mean that my replacement blueprint set is done, just that it's well under way. My perfect blueprints are this one, one naglfar, a phoenix, and three revelations. I've got a few more finishing up soon, and some others finishing up less soon.  After that some of my original set will be researched to optimal, and then the project will be done. Time to completion is probably about a year.

Praise Mittens

Just sold an ME1 naglfar blueprint for 4 bil.

Life is good.

[Reporting interval] financial report

People really like naglfar blueprints.

Also this reporting interval I bought all the tattoos and a synthetic arm. They're pretty cool, and unless they come from some other source at some point the price is only going to go up.

[Reporting interval] financial report

Pretty dull month aside from nice prices on naglfar blueprints.

Trade retrospective

So when I started my little trade project, the idea was to calibrate the items I stock so that I would only have to restock every 3 months, minimizing effort.

This basically worked. I gave up after two iterations of adjusting quantities, but it was dead easy and it made money to the tune of about a billion per month. That's three billion isk in return for taking a couple JF loads of stuff to null and setting up 150 sell orders. I never even adjusted the orders.

I gave up for a few reasons:

1. Buying things, recording how much I paid, and setting up sell orders for more than I paid is too much effort.
2. A billion isk is only a return of about 5% per month. Sure I have a bunch of isk sitting around, but less than 10% is kind of shit.
3. Null systems where you want to sell stuff are full of elitepvp scrubs who are super interested in killing cyno ships. I don't have the patience to wait for them to get off the station.

Anyhoo, I'm done so I thought I'd share the items and quantities I was stocking and how well they sold. To view the list, click this link, click the "save the current version" button, and open the file in a web browser. It will look something like this:

At the time the list was saved it was 67 days from the time I last stocked the system. Red entries are sold out. Negative entries mean I accidentally bought more than I meant to.

Some of the items sold poorly due to competition in the system. Items were put on the market for usually 10-30% more than Jita price, but more in the case of some cheap items. The total value of the items I stocked was I think around 20 billion.

Also, the list of items is a modified version of k162space's list of high volume pvp items.