
EVE Online Station Trading Guide: Profit from the Spread in Jita
How EVE Online station trading works — buy low and sell high in the same station on the spread. What to trade, the capital you need, and where beginners lose ISK.
Real trading walkthroughs and strategy notes built around the ISK Scout toolkit.
Every post documents a real trade executed with ISK Scout — actual routes, actual ISK figures, and screenshots from the run, written by the developer who plays the game. Expect first-hand trade run logs, monthly reprocessing market reports, and practical strategy notes rather than recycled patch summaries.
Multi-part guides walking through one trading topic in depth.
Foundational guides to EVE Online trading — how to make ISK, market mechanics, fees and taxes, trading skills, trade hubs, and risk management. Start here if you are new to station trading and hauling.
Real EVE Online trade runs, one destination per post - buy at a hub, haul the cargo, sell remote. Honest profit, ROI, and risk on every run.
Monthly, data-driven breakdowns of the items that were actually worth buying and reprocessing at EVE Online's main trade hubs — pulled straight from ISK Scout's order-book scans.
Newest first.

How EVE Online station trading works — buy low and sell high in the same station on the spread. What to trade, the capital you need, and where beginners lose ISK.

What to trade in EVE Online as a beginner: steady-demand, high-volume, low-cost items like ammo, charges and drones. How to pick winners, and what to avoid for now.

The five trade hubs of EVE Online — Jita, Amarr, Dodixie, Rens, and Hek — compared: size, security, and which hub to buy in, sell in, and haul between as a trader

All twelve EVE Online trade skills — what each does, its prerequisites and rank, and the exact training order for station traders, haulers, and Alpha clones. Accounting first, always

EVE Online's market window comes down to four numbers — spread, order-book depth, volume, and price trend. How to read the order list and price history, and judge an item in 3 seconds

Buy cheap in Jita, sell dear in Amarr. Why EVE hub arbitrage's 50% headline margin is really 24% — order-book depth, cargo limits, fees, and Uedama gank risk