Tools of the trade
Trading can seem very easy. Fly to a station, buy some goods off the market there, and then fly to another station in which the goods you just bought are selling for a higher price. But in order to maximize your profits, it takes some skills, the right type of ship, and an understanding of how you will be buying and selling your goods. Let's take a closer look at each of those.
A trader's skills
In the Skills for manufacturing section of Chapter 4, Making ISK with Manufacturing, we already talked about the majority of the skills needed for trading. To save you the time of flipping back and forth, here are the skills we have already covered:
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Name |
Description |
|---|---|
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Trade |
Knowledge of the market and skill of manipulating it. Increases the limit of buy/sell orders by 4 per skill level. |
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Accounting |
Proficiency at squaring away the odds and ends of business transactions, keeping the check books tight. Reduces the tax paid on transactions by 10 percent per skill level. ... |
