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.
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#1Mining, ratting, missions, exploration, industry, PI or trading? The seven ways to make ISK in EVE Online compared — and the honest case for why trading suits a certain player.
#3EVE 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
#6How 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.
#7Buy 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
#8Reprocessing in EVE Online turns items and ore into minerals — but yield starts at half, not 100%. How skills, stations and taxes stack, and when refining beats selling.
#9What 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.
#10The three ways trading loses ISK in EVE Online — hauling ganks, market scams, and market crashes — and how to defend against each before you confirm.
#11How courier contracts work in EVE Online: fair reward pricing, what collateral protects, and the contract scams that turn haulers' deposits into someone else's payday.
#12The hauling ship ladder from T1 industrials to freighters, the fits that matter, and the gank math that decides whether your cargo makes it through Uedama.
#13T1 manufacturing from the first BPO to profitable builds: ME/TE research, system cost index and job fees, and the mined-minerals-are-free trap that eats new builders.
#14How to compute real ISK-per-LP, what a good conversion rate looks like, and the volume, tag, and sell-order traps that make paper rates pay half.
#15Reading EVE market charts like a trader: SMA, Bollinger Bands, RSI, MACD and ATR, when they agree, and the patch-note caveat that outranks every indicator.
#16Why the empty backhaul is a hidden pay cut: round-trip budgeting, the ISK snowball, chain routes between the smaller hubs, and when one-way genuinely wins.
#14How EVE Online's four trade actions really work — and the broker fee, sales tax, and escrow stacked behind them. Why a 10% margin flip can still lose money, and how far skills cut the cost.
#15All 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
#16The 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