[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.

In which mineral prices drop

First time in more than a year I've sold a ship for under a billion. Mineral prices are down 20%, presumably as a result of the recent (ish?) changes to high-end ore. This is bad for me; percent margins tend to be fairly stable, so lower prices mean lower profits.

Not that profits are something I'm super focused on at this point, but I am keeping my research process going and trying to add an 8-ship run to manufacturing every few weeks. On manufacturing I'm way below full production - I expect the ships from run 127 to finish selling before I even install the run 128 hulls - but NBD.

Financial report -- 6/1 through 10/11

Can't complain, I guess.

Edit: Though "ships carried" should be 0 and "research items sold" should be 44.

I appreciate the effort...

...but you're going to need more than 2 tornadoes.

It's semi rare for me to see a gank attempt, so having these chaps hit me twice in five days is noteworthy. Buggers are fast -- they hit me between the time I land on Jita 4-4 and the time my ship docks.

I'll make that trade

The profit isn't nearly as large as that rorqual from a year or so back, but I think it's noteworthy anyway.

I aten't dead.

Only mostly dead.

Mineral prices have dropped by 20% while capital ship hull prices remained steady-ish, so margins are pretty good right now. I've gone ahead and bought a batch of minerals.

I also did this:

Turns out the fast way to get there is to use data centers and COSMOS agents. Bonus points, most of their missions are either couriers or they just want you to give them items you can find on market or on contracts.

In other other news, I seem to have misplaced somewhere between 4 and 11 capital component blueprints. It's the weirdest thing -- they aren't installed as corp jobs, nor as personal jobs on any of my six characters. They aren't in corp assets, or deliveries, or personal assets, or in the holds of any of my ships. No doubt they'll turn up if I leave it alone for a few years, but it's unsettling that they can just disappear like that.