Same thing for EDDB.
I go to the station listed and buy what it tells me to according to my cargo specs and everything, but I might not be able to buy the amount it tells me to, so I wait 10 minutes and when it resets the commodities I buy all I can but it is still not the amount I was expecting, so I realize at this rate in an hour I will not be able to buy enough commodities at6 either location in an hour of sitting there and letting the server tick, or by just continuing going back and forth in the loop for an hour./ As a matter of fact I will not even make in an hour what it says I should make on one round trip.
For example, it says that if I buy however many itens at station A, then sell them at station B, then buy whatever items there and return to sell them at station A it says I'll make 44 million per trip and 180 million per hour of steady trading. I made 500k on a round trip so might make 3-4 million per hour.
I have a good grasp of Inara, EDDB, and many other apps in my bookmarks and have used them for years to find places to look for mats and everything else, except for trading routes, I do not see how I can be misreading the numbers so badly.
What is the best way to trade using a 3rd party app, and which app?
Inara seems much more detailed than EDDB, I have used them both for years, but am new to loop trading, I either mined, did passenger missions, or cargo missions for Elite in trading. But this free trading is making me about a tenth if even that much in profits per run/hour that it says I should get.
Should I maybe try to scroll way down and shoot for less profits per run/hour and have a better chance of reaching the goals as there might bge far less players running those routes?
Should I buy what I can, make the jump to the next system and station and sell, buy there and come right back, or let the server tick for an hour for it to give me the max amount of commodities the buying station will buy?
Thank you.
I go to the station listed and buy what it tells me to according to my cargo specs and everything, but I might not be able to buy the amount it tells me to, so I wait 10 minutes and when it resets the commodities I buy all I can but it is still not the amount I was expecting, so I realize at this rate in an hour I will not be able to buy enough commodities at6 either location in an hour of sitting there and letting the server tick, or by just continuing going back and forth in the loop for an hour./ As a matter of fact I will not even make in an hour what it says I should make on one round trip.
For example, it says that if I buy however many itens at station A, then sell them at station B, then buy whatever items there and return to sell them at station A it says I'll make 44 million per trip and 180 million per hour of steady trading. I made 500k on a round trip so might make 3-4 million per hour.
I have a good grasp of Inara, EDDB, and many other apps in my bookmarks and have used them for years to find places to look for mats and everything else, except for trading routes, I do not see how I can be misreading the numbers so badly.
What is the best way to trade using a 3rd party app, and which app?
Inara seems much more detailed than EDDB, I have used them both for years, but am new to loop trading, I either mined, did passenger missions, or cargo missions for Elite in trading. But this free trading is making me about a tenth if even that much in profits per run/hour that it says I should get.
Should I maybe try to scroll way down and shoot for less profits per run/hour and have a better chance of reaching the goals as there might bge far less players running those routes?
Should I buy what I can, make the jump to the next system and station and sell, buy there and come right back, or let the server tick for an hour for it to give me the max amount of commodities the buying station will buy?
Thank you.
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