Just go to go the sc_trades sub reddit. Look how there are literally hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars worth of trades every single month. Either they are lying by boosting trades or there is a literal monetary market for ships and the speculative rise around them.
Sure, lets take a look.
When you do a trade on sc_trades, there is a trade confirmation thread and post. Each trade should have two posts, the seller saying the sale went well and the buyer saying the sale went well. Or not well.....
So in September there were 2,100 comments. If everything went perfectly that would mean there were 1050 transactions.
Now, using your 1 million dollar figure, 1,000,000 / 1050 = 952.
So you think each transaction on the sc_trades goes for an average of $952.
Ok, lets not do it if everything went perfectly, but if everything was done wrong and there were actually 2,100 transactions.
1,000,000 / 2100 = 476.
Best case you think the average transaction on sc_trades goes for $476.
Yeah, no.
I will grant there is a decent amount of money going through there. But millions, nah.