Monthly Station Trading Profits

I could of done this a bit better. I think I will actually record the time spent trading, rather then giving a very rough guess. For one week I didn’t trade at all, another week I made most of the isk. I also spent 100mil for stocking an alliance station. The amount I have now is;

1.72 Billion isk.

A 320mil profit.

I will definitely try this again with much more information. At the start of this, I had access to null sec space and was ratting while trading. I can make roughly around 45mil in 5 hours (not including faction rats and loot). I probably spent around 4 hours a week setting up orders on the trader to gain 320mil.

If I consider the actual time trading in relation to ratting, I think ratting pays off more. Sometimes the things I trade are not profitable for a day or two, and my trading alt is left doing nothing. If I plex any character, then I might as well keep the one account. It would only pay off once all the trading skills are leveled and then it would be like having a free character on the traders account. Even then, depending what your alt is training for, it can conflict with your trading.

The other alt on the trader is training for a Orca. My main character can fly a hulk and sometimes I spend the day flying back and forth in Empire lazily mining while I do other things. With the Orca, I would make much, much more isk and it would also be a valuable asset for my corporation to have a Orca on most of the time.

The trader only requires around 25 days for efficient trading. If you have the investment after that, then your only limited by time for how much isk you could make. If I knuckled down and traded much more, I’m confident I could make 600mil a month, and if that’s re-invested, then the next month would be more. If your willing to not fund an account with plex’s, then the trading alt is extremely valuable. Also, you cant expand your trading capacity with more alts, so its a one stop solution to potentially making alot of isk (unlike missioning with a dps and a tank, or mining with two hulks and a orca).

In a few days I will collect much more infomation and try this again, and put in the hours to see how much I could really make. I started this to show how much isk was to be made by literlly sitting in a station setting up orders, but after ratting I wondered if it would make more isk running missions in a afk domi, or as a Orca. Its not just about how much isk you can make per hour, but the comfort and fun in making isk. Running three alts missioning can be stressful and draining, and while the isk is very nice you could make a fraction less ratting in null sec and trading on the side for a few hours a week.

Kai.