I did a rare run last night whilst watching the end of 24 season 5, and the beginning of Season 6 - Yes, I didn't watch it when it first came out.
I personally don't like normal trading; just going from A->B. I'd prefer to fly around like crazy, then get one huge payout. Before I discovered rare trading [I got on that bandwagon a little late] I had only earned about 70,000Cr from it. Whilst my bounties were around a million. After one rare run my trading was up at 1.5 million credits...
I've also given up on hanging around for the rares to replenish, I'd just grab and run. Hopefully, I've put rares behind me! I'm back in a [pimped out] Cobra and have a few million in the bank... Which is plenty-much to re-buy my ship about 10 times over! I just want to get back to pirating, bounty hunting and mindless slaughter... Aaah.. The peaceful life.
All I need to do is work out what the perfect weapon setup is for the Cobra, previously I had 3xMCs and 1xBeam - All gimballed. Now I've got fixed on portside and gimballed on starboard. It's working nicely, but the small gimballed beam laser is worse than useless on a Cobra :\