Station Trading – The Forge

Disclaimers: This report is strictly academic in-nature and does not constitute financial advice; its contents are based off of past and present data which cannot guarantee future outcomes. In-game traders can and will engage in market manipulation tactics which can influence these reports.

Using the principle of trading against the bid-ask spread, this report provides a list of potentially viable items to trade in the region ‘The Forge’ in the MMORPG EvE Online. Please see this article for detailed context and information concerning the regression analysis, data modeling and other methodologies used to generate these results. All data used to generate these reports is provided by the EvE Swagger Interface with static data exports provided by FuzzySteve. New report results are generated approximately once every hour.

The following table displays the top 30 results sorted by potential profit; pagination and user-specified sorting is supported. A full .csv export can also be downloaded here.

nametype_idPotentialDailyProfitpctROIBuyPriceSellPriceVolPerOrderTotalDeltaRelistCt
Federation Navy Small Armor Repairer15744.0102496570574884010871086060941
Corelum B-Type EM Energized Membrane18815.010224049410232732240550117022
Aqueous Cobalt - Unlimited88587.010223869091325002799804160872
Megacity Crunch - Unlimited82479.01012910686551471227032646350
Yan Jung Vellum Etch23169.0101020611510586526059413820
Coercer Imperial Police SKIN87507.010091011619806833000000140370
Tropic Alloy Metallic - Unlimited88591.0100608889647237913757384091340

Legend

  • PotentialDailyProfit: Daily station trading profit potential for the specified commodity
  • PctROI: Percent return on investment when trading at the indicated BuyPrice and SellPrice
  • BuyPrice: Target purchase price
  • SellPrice: Target sale price
  • VolPerOrder: Average (mean) unit quantity bought/sold per order
  • TotalDelta: Estimated total time (in minutes) it will take to successfully clear both a Buy and Sell order
  • RelistCt: Estimated quantity of order relists (0.01-ISKing) required to account for competition.