Newcomer / Intro Beginner Trade

[hawk1927]

I have seen alot of posts on beginner trade routes. Problem is all of them i have seen posted as well as on the uk webpage for the markets are so darn far away from my starting point.

Any suggestions?

TY

 

[Cmdr Andy B]

for a beginner i'd say the best type of systems to trade between are an agricultural system (fruit & Veg/Grain) and either an industrial or high tech system (basic meds/Agri meds). the commodities are cheap enough to buy for a new player and the profit is enough to make them worth it, plus if you find a pair fairly close together there is a good possibility of picking up delivery missions along the way for an extra cash boost.

 

[Universal Evil]

Also try to find the two stations in two seperate systems because is't actualy faster to travel between two stations in two systems, than it is to travel between to stations in the same system, due to the slowly acceleration from normal flight into SC.... Especially if both station are near the nav.boy (ec.between 15 and 200 Ls) in their respective systems...

 

[Jaiotu]

Find a refinery or extraction system that sells gold below the galactic average. Buy that and sell it in a nearby industrial system that is buying gold above the galactic average.
Mining is also a good option for the beginner as anything you mine is 100% profit. Mining doesn't scale up well though so after you've made about a million credits in mining you'll be in a larger ship that can earn more credits trading per hour then you could for each hour of mining.