In our efforts to make ISK in EVE, to buy all the cool stuff, we continue with our money making tutorials. This time around we're looking at the market, and how to take advantage. This article is only about general guidelines, and not about which stations might be best to buy / sell where.

Attributes

Charisma & willpower. Training all the list to level 5 will take alot of time. Choosing these attributes will cut off at least a month.

Basic skills needed

Trade
Train to minimum level 4. Is x1 skill
Requirement for higher skill books and increase buy / sell order limit by 4 per level.

Accounting
Train to minimum level 4. Is x3 skill.
Requirement: Trade 4.
Requirement for higher skill books. Each level reduces transaction tax by 10%

Broker Relations
Train to minimum level 4. Is x2 skill.
Requirement: Trade 3.
Reduce the cost of setting up a market order by 5%. The normal cost is 1% of order's value. So 5% of 1%.

Margin Trading
Train to minimum level 4. Is x3 skill.
Requirement: Trade 4. Accounting 4.
When investing in buy orders, this skill reduce the upfront cost the pilot has to pay. Each level reduce by 25%, down to 24% at level 5. This is a very good skill to have.

Retail
Train to minimum level 5. Is x2 skill.
Requirement: Trade 2.
This skill raise limit of active orders by 8. It is essential to train.

Wholesale
Train to level 5. Is x4 skill.
Requirements: Trade 2. Marketing 2. Retail 5.
Increase order limit by 16 per skill.

Visibiliy
Train to minimum level 4. Is x3 skill.
Makes your order visible and highlighted at other stations. First level increase to system. Level 2-4 increase range by 5 jumps. Level 5 regional.

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Nice to have skills

Contracting
Train to minimum level 2. Is x1 skill.
Requirement: Social 1.
Increase the number of outstanding contracts by 4 each level. Sometimes, there are good deals found under contracts, so worth a look.

Daytrading
Train to minimum level 3. Is x1 skill.
Requirement: Trade 4.
Allows for remote modification of buy and sell orders. Each level increase range by 5 jumps, within same region. Allow for price change of orders.

Marketing
Train to minimum level 3. Is x3 skill.
Requirement: Trade 2.
Allows for remotely selling items in a station. Each level increase range by 5 jumps, within same region.

Tycoon
Train to level needed.
Requirement: Trade 2. Retail 5. Marketing 4. Wholesale 5.
Raise order limit by 32.

How to do it

First of all you have to make sure, that your buy/sellorder is highest on the list. Otherwise someone else will sell your item cheaper. So atleast once a day, you have to modify your prices, to make sure they are on top. Like everything else in EVE this will take time to set up, but once you get going you will notice a big change in income. Especially right after modifying the prices, you will see a big spike in isk earned per hour. So the more often prices are modified the more you earn.