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1s hi guys
3s how y'all doing
5s mike check my check
9s [Applause]
12s that's good at least somebody showed up
14s for the for the spreadsheet class I was
15s I was kind of worried last last year I I
18s named the presentation trust trading and
20s trillions which was a little bit more
21s since like Sensational trying to get
23s pulling people into the trading side of
25s uh of you online this this year it's uh
28s just just hardcore spreadsheet master
30s class right if you're here
32s um then uh then then yeah then you're
35s typically player probably but uh you
37s also now you're locked in now you can't
39s leave and I'm going to take advantage of
40s you
42s um
43s some of you may may know who I am I'm
46s I'm Oz uh I've been playing eve since
48s 2004 and I'm just really heavily into
52s markets and and trading that's what I've
55s been doing since 2004 just you know
58s building spreadsheets trying to dominate
59s the market uh learning learning the game
62s of Eve online with the goal in mind to
66s then profit from it in the market right
68s and there's some other people uh out
70s there doing that you might have seen
71s Eden trades presentation earlier one of
73s the more extreme examples of that
76s um but in 2019 I started then streaming
80s it and so I I started switching that
82s entire game around because starting in
85s 2019 I started not hiding all the
88s secrets for myself but letting everyone
91s in on the secrets and and talking about
93s them and building spreadsheets and
95s essentially teaching other people to
96s trade in Eve online I also run other
99s things uh on on Twitch like the oztank I
101s hope a lot of you have seen that uh
103s that's that's the Shark Tank but for Eve
106s online where uh Eden trade and me and
109s some other eve trillionaires listen to
111s pitches and then give away all our money
112s because
114s my numbers just go up I don't really do
116s a lot of other things in Eve online so
117s my numbers just keep on going up so I
119s had to find a way to inject all that is
121s back into the community and that's
123s that's my way of doing that
126s um I'm I've been an eve partner since
128s the the launch of the program my my
131s guides are used in the eve Academy and I
132s also have a Discord server if you're not
134s on it come join us it's it's basically
136s six six thousand trading nerds or people
138s that are just generally interested in
140s that play style
141s um discussing Eve online and
144s and this is what I'm more famous or
146s inFAMOUS for is the uh the trading fund
150s that I run so what I do is I um I take
154s investments from the Eve online
157s community and I that's that's around it
160s was 4 trillion in July we're closer to 5
162s trillion now I try to get out of it but
164s people just keep giving me money I don't
166s know why you guys are crazy but
169s um I uh I invested money in in Gita so
172s just by managing that fund I'm I'm
175s playing uh a heavily heavy role also in
178s influencing the markets in uh in in Gita
181s so last time
184s I talked about that this was last year
186s you can find this presentation out on on
188s YouTube I talked about trust trading in
190s trillions and that was basically how I
191s take those four trillion and how I
194s invest them in the market and the
196s strategies associated with that so this
198s year I want to do
200s um something different and that is
203s um I want to talk about the different
204s types of spreadsheets that are out there
207s um the the data sources that you can use
209s how to run a market spreadsheet
213s effectively and what I use them for and
217s don't worry I'm not going to make this
218s too Niche because I think that that
220s that's super Niche you know market
222s trading playstyle is probably interest
223s about maybe one percent of you
226s but I'm going to try to do it like I do
229s on my stream to to to make it so that
231s even if you don't actively trade or if
235s you don't build your own spreadsheets at
237s least this will be helpful for your
240s daily decisions that you make and Eve
242s online and uh and I'll try to make it as
244s relevant to your playstyle as possible
246s so let's start with the types of
249s spreadsheets that there are so first of
251s all
252s the more the most simple spreadsheet
254s that you can build in Eve online is the
256s the tracking spreadsheet right and
257s that's basically how much money did I
260s make today for example as a question
262s that you're trying to answer you're
263s trying to look at your individual Market
267s orders your your your profits or maybe
269s even for your corporation you look at
271s where's our isk at where can we get the
273s data from to understand how much risk we
276s made today this week this this month
279s this year right the second thing you can
281s do and this is my favorite and that is
283s the the market dashboard so that's your
286s Bloomberg terminal if you happen to work
288s in in finance or or the markets in real
290s life that's your what you know what is
293s the market doing today where what
295s where's the market moving to what are
297s the the new things happening in the
299s market today and then
300s three it's kind of like the the
303s opportunity identification like what um
306s what what are opportunities out there
308s that I can find because I have a better
310s spreadsheets than others or because I uh
313s I I gather data better than others to
316s profit from it so these are the three
318s types of spreadsheets that um that we're
320s going to talk about today
322s and
325s one thing to to understand is that the
327s purpose of these spreadsheets will
329s determine the data sources that you can
332s that you can use in Eve online and I
334s think you know for for Eve online more
337s so than other games is I think more
340s players of Eve online have had some sort
342s of exposure about the data sources that
345s you can use to pull data in but still I
348s understand that a lot of you probably
349s have never thought about these sources
351s or or don't you know don't don't don't
353s come into contact with these data
355s sources at all so I'm I'm going to try
357s to to start
359s um at the uh at the at the bottom
363s first of all what type of data sources
366s can you use to build spreadsheets in Eve
368s online
369s most recently a lot of you have seen the
372s launch of the Excel atom so the Excel
375s add-in is something very special it's
377s the first time that Microsoft Excel has
378s done an add-in for a video game I was
382s you know I was fortunate enough to to
384s test it and to be on the on the on the
386s live stream with with the Microsoft
388s Excel guys and it was you know it's it's
390s it's it's awesome it's it's very very
392s cool and it's very Eve you know it's
394s very very Eve to have to be the first
396s game to to be able to do that so this
399s gives us a lot of new opportunities
403s there's always been an API so there's
405s always been like a way to directly tap
407s into the data of Eve online if you know
409s if you understand coding or if you have
410s some way of um of of scripting uh
414s scripting code to to get to that data
417s with the Excel add-in you don't have to
419s know that anymore right with the Excel
420s add-in as long as you understand the
422s basics of Microsoft Excel you can
425s call data for your characters with
428s formulas you log into your character you
431s use a a formula like you know Market
434s orders and you can within seconds pull
437s in all the market orders for your
439s character it's not only for Market data
441s though you can pull it for all your
442s assets you can find your assets in the
444s Galaxy you can look at which how many of
447s each ship type you have if you're doing
448s Fleet compositions whatever it's a very
450s useful tool
452s we have things like
454s adam4eve.eu I hope a lot of you have
456s have used it and have not accidentally
458s put in adam4eve.com right
461s it's a running joke on my stream but
463s don't don't do this now don't pull up
464s your phones
465s you might get flagged on the Wi-Fi here
468s um it's it's Adam for Eve how what his
471s name's not even Adam I don't know what
473s he is I don't know why he called it that
475s um but um it's a guy named Ethan and he
478s he really if you're interested in Market
480s data it some sometimes it looks ugly on
484s the surface don't tell him I said that
485s it looks a little bit rough but it's
487s really it's really the heart of of of
489s Market data and and and some other very
492s very very useful data so if you've never
494s gone to that site and you play Eve
496s online I highly recommend you to go
498s there and he works on it very very hard
499s so Adam for Eve is another one that is
502s really useful
503s Chief assets also one of my personal
505s favorites so this is a Java application
508s um so as long as you install the Java
510s runtime application in your uh
512s environment on your computer you can
514s just just just run this and it will if
516s you log into your account it will pull
518s all the data for your account and it's
521s it's just you have to know no coding at
523s all and it's even represented in nice
525s graphs it's really it's it's as close to
527s a a perfect character overview sheet as
530s you can get to
532s um fuzz work is another one uh a lot of
534s you guys know now Steve runs it is um
537s it's it's fantastic it's not only a good
540s you know LP store calculator if you're
542s trying to buy things in AP stores but
543s it's also he also uh opens up an API
548s to access the market data and it has a
550s lot of useful things about it
552s something that came out of our community
555s um a guy named mocam I'm going to talk
558s about this a lot later so because if you
560s have not if you're building Square
561s spreadsheets and even live and if you
562s have not used mocam.dk then I highly
565s recommend it because this is the source
567s for all the market history and
569s everything that you thought was
571s impossible to get to and especially for
574s things like like I do where you know you
576s I invest large sums of money and I need
578s to understand where the market is where
579s the Market's going mocam is where you
581s want to go
582s one of my personal favorites is
584s evecookbook.com I know there's a lot of
587s websites that allow you to uh to
589s calculate build cost for things in Eve
591s online but if cookbook has the big
594s advantage that you can't just go onto
596s the website and say
598s I am in this station I'm building this
600s with these skills with these blueprints
603s it also has an API which is super
606s helpful because you can literally go
608s into Google Sheets and you can type in a
611s formula to pull in the exact build cost
615s for an item at a specific station for
618s your character so it's super useful uh
621s what what he's doing there
622s and then there's a ton more so this
624s that's why I'm prefacing this by saying
627s these are the tools that I use and I'm
629s sorry if I you know forgot some some
631s other tools that might be fantastic as
633s well if you think you know tools that
636s are doing this but in a better way then
638s I'm the first one that wants to know
639s about it so this is just to kind of set
641s the stage for you all to
645s you know to understand what is out there
646s where can you where can you get stuff so
649s let's jump into the first type of
651s spreadsheet there is
654s and you know before we jump into that
657s this this presentation is called Market
661s spreadsheet master class right we just
663s have 45 minutes just so spoiler alert
666s there's no way I will teach you how to
667s build a market spreadsheet if you if you
669s know nothing right this is
672s um going to be to get you maybe
673s interested in it to maybe show you how
675s it's not as daunting as it might might
677s feel and if you want to dive in deeper
680s then you know come see me come join our
682s Discord and we can you know anyone can
685s learn how to do this stuff if you're if
686s you're interested so let's talk about
688s the the tracking sheet
691s so how much money did I make today for
693s example as a or or this month as a uh as
695s as kind of a slogan
697s the the data we need for that is one we
700s need the transactions so your daily
702s wallet transactions if you're you know
703s trading on a character or in a
705s corporation the Wallet balance helps so
707s what's going in and out of your wallet
709s not only through Market orders there's
711s other things that impact your wallet
713s right and if you're trading with
714s contracts for examples and transactions
716s aren't going to help you much
718s your current market orders so what are
720s the buy and sell orders that you
721s currently have out there because for a
723s lot of people that are trading that
725s constitutes a lot of your your your
726s assets or your invested um capital
729s and then
731s the current item price and that's just
732s the whole complicated matter on itself
734s so
736s the way I've structured this
737s presentation is I want to go through
739s each of the categories of data sources
742s that we have so the the original API the
746s Excel add-in and various third-party
748s tools and kind of look at what what can
752s do which part of the spreadsheet
754s building really well and
758s if you're looking at transactions Wallet
760s balance orders there's really you know
763s you can pick your poison there's really
764s no difference you can you can get this
766s from the API directly you can use the
769s Excel add-in if you don't know um if you
771s don't know coding you can use
772s third-party tools you know specifically
774s Chief assets as I mentioned this is just
776s really really well right there's just it
778s it it's it's not difficult to get these
781s types of things at all if you're if
783s you're completely new at this I would
784s recommend you do either the Excel add-in
786s or Jeep assets because it's you know
788s it's it's the easiest it doesn't require
789s any any any coding but they can all do
793s it where this becomes interesting is if
796s we're talking about current market price
798s because
799s what's current market price right that I
802s mean that in itself is basically
804s impossible to answer for for Eve online
806s because you know are we talking Gita
810s price are we talking the lowest sell
812s order that is currently out there are we
814s talking the lowest price
816s averaged over the last week month maybe
819s year
820s um are we talking about the percent
823s price which is the you know favorite uh
826s with the favorite price of of of Traders
829s so
831s um you know and what I mean by percent
833s price is uh if if it's it's the way that
838s Traders and Eve online answer that
840s question of there is no right answer to
843s the current price and typically what we
844s call the current price is the the price
848s of the top five percent sell orders in
852s Gita so if you were buying the top five
856s percent of Gita which is a significant
858s Market volume the price of that and what
861s that does is it eliminates all the
863s outliers if some idiot sells it way too
866s low right and idiot is what I call him
868s as a market Trader you guys can call
869s them you know a nice guy that is selling
871s it very cheap
872s um but to me he's breaking my market
875s right
876s um
877s so the percent price is something that
879s is uh that is very crucial to to to this
882s tracking sheet and so the the API only
886s does this partially well so that's why
888s you know the the the less white the
890s worse the solution is in case you
892s haven't caught on to the to the Harvey
894s balls I used to be a consultant just
896s um so the API does this okay but it
899s doesn't do the percentage price for
900s example you have to calculate that for
902s yourself the Excel add-in similarly so
904s you can you can you cannot get the
907s current price from it you would have to
909s get all of the current sell orders and
910s then do your own calculations on a
912s different sheet and if you do that for
913s 1500 items it gets kind of complicated
916s and so thankfully we have third-party
919s apps that do this really well
921s um you know if you go to fast work for
923s example you can actually pull that
925s pre-calculated percentage price which is
927s super helpful
928s so uh in essence it's that that current
931s item price question that will answer
935s what solution you probably want to go
938s with and so in this case
940s um third-party wins if you if you go
943s that and you know before you say well
946s you know that's that's that's kind of
948s unfair to compare of course it is
950s because third-party tools
952s are specifically created for one purpose
956s or a set of purposes in case of mocam or
959s chief assets or fuzz work a lot of that
962s has market trading in mind so naturally
964s in a lot of these situations third-party
966s apps are going to win out but that's you
968s know that's okay
970s um for the middle one you don't need to
972s do no coding at all so that's the big
974s advantage of the Excel add-in
976s so if we look at the second type of
979s um of that of of of spreadsheet the
983s dashboard this is where we want to
985s understand what is currently going on in
987s the market and um I I have a huge one of
990s these where I I you know being an eve
993s Tycoon myself I wake up in the morning
994s at least in my you know in my uh
997s imagination I wake up in the morning I
999s look at my spreadsheet and I see
1001s this is going on in Gita right and I can
1004s immediately see okay moon materials down
1006s five percent what the hell's going on
1007s there we go you know we have to buy we
1010s have to understand why it's going on I
1011s have to message five people to see
1012s what's going on in Null Sec what you
1014s guys are doing over there
1015s um and
1017s um you know ship prices are are
1020s exploding this will in the long run make
1022s raw materials explode I need to know
1024s which where where I need to invest right
1026s so this is this is the type of Market
1027s dashboard and for this
1029s the key difference to the other sheet is
1032s the market history so we for this we
1034s need to know the market history and
1035s again that is something that you can
1037s easily say but it's very complicated if
1040s you actually explain what it is the
1042s market history
1043s is the price and the order volume of
1048s goods over longer periods of time and
1051s immediately you're not talking about a
1052s market snapshot of today which is a
1056s manageable amount of data and even today
1058s is these five these 15 minute uh
1061s snapshot if you take that 15 minute
1064s slice and you take that back into years
1067s which is what I want to work with and
1069s this becomes very very very complicated
1071s and so
1073s it's it's it's just not you know it's
1075s not something that you can easily pull
1077s from from One Source now
1081s if you don't have that market data the
1083s something like a current price doesn't
1085s really mean anything at all right so you
1088s can
1090s um if if you if you were looking at the
1094s current price of titanium and say it's
1095s four ISC and 95 cents
1099s that doesn't mean anything to anyone who
1101s who has not you know followed the if the
1104s the price of titanium over the last you
1106s know five years and knows exactly why
1107s the price is there so we need to
1109s understand is this higher or lower than
1111s the yearly average or the monthly
1113s average why is it down there Etc so this
1115s is why we need a market history data
1119s the API gives you the market history it
1122s gives you this these slices for
1125s you know these various slices for daily
1127s monthly and yearly you can you can
1129s download it from there but then you
1131s still have to do a lot of calculations
1134s on it so just having the data just it
1137s just gives you the data essentially is
1138s still a massive spreadsheet to then
1140s calculate okay you know what's the
1142s volatility of this item what is the
1146s 52-week average for that item what's the
1149s monthly average volume for this item and
1152s so
1153s in the API you get all the data and you
1155s can do your own calculations in the
1157s Excel add-in it's actually even more
1159s complicated you can you can call
1161s the market history with the formula in
1163s the Excel add-in but then you get a huge
1166s table back as well and then you almost
1168s have no chance of averaging out numbers
1172s over a certain column Etc it just
1175s becomes very complicated and that's not
1177s because it's about a solution it's just
1178s because this is basically the most
1180s complicated thing you can do with data
1181s and even 9. and so
1184s this is where the the tool I mentioned
1187s earlier comes in mocam.dk what he does
1189s is he takes all of that history and he
1192s pre-calculates all these kpis for you so
1196s he pre-calculates
1198s the um the volatility the volume the
1202s average price and he does all of this
1204s for day for week for month for year and
1208s it's just you know for people like me
1209s it's just fantastic so again if you use
1212s that tool and you can pull that data
1213s into Google Sheets you're just your
1216s sheets going to be a lot leaner it's
1218s going to be a run faster and plus you
1219s don't know need to know the ins and outs
1221s because I I wager the average like 99 of
1226s each players will not be able to get a
1228s useful Market history out of the Excel
1230s atom because it's just so so complicated
1232s it's good at other things just not at
1234s that
1235s so again the the the current item price
1238s uh we talked about that challenge
1239s earlier
1241s um the the current order volume is
1243s something that is very easy so if you
1244s want to understand how how many how much
1248s how many rattlesnakes are for sale in
1250s the Forge right now that's something
1251s very easily you can pull that out of uh
1253s the API out of the Excel add-in or or
1255s various third-party tools so you can
1257s even look it up in game it's not very
1259s difficult
1260s the thing that is difficult is the build
1262s cost so the build cost is something that
1267s is kind of like the current price it's
1269s like what's build cost in Eve online
1271s build cost depends on
1274s what you're building how researched your
1277s blueprint is
1278s what station you're using where where is
1281s the station what rigs do you have in the
1284s station
1285s and three four other things the index
1287s cost I mean it's it's it's
1290s um it's a ton of different things so
1291s there's no way for anyone to say
1293s oh this item is trading under build cost
1295s and a lot of streamers including me like
1297s to say that sometimes it's a good idea
1299s but as long as you don't know what the
1302s build cost is for the best guy or best
1305s girl that is doing the over the the a
1308s large chunk of the market then that
1309s doesn't help you at all and this is
1312s um again where
1313s the the Excel add-in actually does does
1316s this okay so in the Excel add-in you can
1319s you can you can pull in a lot of these
1321s variables into the sheet but you have to
1324s build the sheet yourself which which in
1325s itself is quite complicated so if you
1327s had someone's template then I think it
1329s would be a viable solution from the API
1332s you get all the raw data so you can you
1334s can actually pull a blueprint with all
1338s the so this is how I used to do it in
1340s the in the old days
1342s uh where I used to pull in the the
1346s static data of all bpcs in in new Eden
1350s right and then
1351s you actually look at all the items that
1354s go into it and then you can use that to
1356s make calculations on your own in Excel
1358s but then again for 99 of people that
1361s this is going to be way way way too much
1363s so that's why what if cookbook did is so
1366s it's so great
1367s um that is being able to call with one
1372s formula in Google Sheets call
1375s um the build cost based on variables
1378s that you just tack on you know I'm using
1379s T2 rigs in a in a in a in a raitaru in a
1386s um you know my with in this system so
1388s you can actually send all those
1390s variables with and you get the exact
1392s cost back and
1394s that is important to see because if
1396s you're trying to understand the eve
1397s economy it's actually very important to
1400s understand the build cost of things and
1401s why certain items keep being traded
1404s under build cost and and why so for the
1408s dashboard again no surprise yes the the
1411s third party tools win out but mostly due
1415s to Market history and and the build cost
1417s being being such complex beasts
1420s the last sheet is the opportunity sheet
1423s this is where you say okay if I if I if
1426s I want to get my my feed wet and Market
1429s trading I want to understand how this
1430s this works I want to maybe do some
1433s profitable trades then then how do you
1436s um you know how do you go about that and
1438s so for this it's uh it's it's a lot of
1442s the same the only difference that you
1444s probably want here is regional pricing
1446s so for opportunities a lot of times what
1448s people
1449s what people mean by finding
1451s opportunities in even online trading is
1453s buying in one region and selling in the
1455s other because that's the I think the
1456s easiest thing to understand to make a
1458s trade and there are thousands of these
1461s profitable trades out there because
1464s hauling all right because hauling is um
1467s is a ridiculously stupid thing to do in
1471s terms of risk and rewards
1473s risk of a reward formula
1476s um but uh you know there's there are
1479s different different opinions about that
1480s I'm just using my stage to bring that
1481s message out there
1483s um
1484s it's it's I I don't understand why
1486s people are
1488s um it's it's uh it's it's way too risky
1490s for the rewards that you get but because
1493s it's out there Regional trading can be
1495s very profitable and so if you're
1496s building a sheet like this uh again you
1500s can get Regional uh prices from
1502s everywhere uh but I would argue that the
1505s the reach the lowest you know the lowest
1507s price in rents has no meaning to me at
1511s all not because you know rent sucks uh
1513s but because it's
1515s um it doesn't matter but because
1518s um but because we need the percentage
1520s price right and and once you're talking
1522s about five percent of the market volume
1525s uh being the relevant type of thing that
1528s or the Rel the the relevant data point
1531s that you want to get at then you're
1533s Landing with uh with third-party apps
1535s again and if you're talking about five
1536s percent of the market volume of rents is
1539s still irrelevant by the way
1542s um all right
1545s how do we run effective sheets so if
1547s we've put all of that together
1549s we've taken all the data and we've put
1552s it all in our spreadsheet what can we do
1554s to make it run well and that's this is
1556s very important because you know when you
1558s see things like Eve server if API
1561s service crashing or third-party tools
1563s crashing you know it's because there are
1565s crazy people
1567s like me every once in a while that pull
1570s just too much data and and uh you know
1572s and and and aren't aren't you know
1574s they're trying different things and
1575s they're not doing this uh if efficiently
1578s and so when you pull data make sure that
1582s uh for one you have some sort of manual
1585s trigger so I know a lot of times if you
1587s have a spreadsheet you know you open it
1588s up and it automatically pulls all the
1590s data in for a third some third-party uh
1593s developers this is this is a nightmare
1595s right because you're every time you're
1596s opening the sheet you know and this
1598s might be several times a day it's just
1599s pulling everything in so make sure you
1600s have some sort of manual trigger I
1602s learned that very quickly because there
1604s are limits for example in Google Sheets
1606s that you can pull external external data
1610s in if you don't have a professional
1611s account so if you don't want to get to
1613s those limits then you have to do that
1615s also
1617s I've learned to have one Central data
1620s sheet where I pull all my data in and
1622s then I use that data for other specific
1625s sheets right because it's easier if you
1627s just decide okay this is the data that I
1629s need and I'm going to pull into one
1631s sheet that is the master sheet for that
1633s you know that I use on that day rather
1635s than having five different sheets one
1637s for industry one for you know as a
1640s dashboard one to identify opportunities
1643s and you pull the same data from the same
1645s people every single time it's going to
1647s be an issue
1648s and then
1650s something that I feel very strongly
1653s about and I already said this last year
1655s is then limit yourself to relev to a
1657s relevant set and I have this discussion
1659s all the time you know data scientists
1661s will say
1662s only all data is good data right
1665s um but you can be efficient about it you
1667s can say okay we really don't need to
1669s look at every single item in Eve online
1671s because honestly 80 of the items in Eve
1673s online never get traded in in any
1676s relevant volume so when we're talking
1678s relevant items there are 40 000 items in
1682s Eve online all right
1684s um and I I showed this slide last year
1686s so I'm going to go go through this
1688s rather quickly
1689s there are 1500 items only that have a
1692s trade volume of 1 billion is a day or
1694s more and the reason I'm saying that this
1697s is relevant is because this doesn't mean
1699s that you know this is only for people
1701s that are investing billions no no this
1703s is total trade volume in the Forge of 1
1707s billion so if you're one of those
1709s Traders if you're you know you never you
1712s will never own this full Market in Gita
1714s um if you're only one of those Traders
1715s uh then you know even 50 million or 100
1719s million invested in this item is
1721s relevant so really we're talking about a
1723s small relevant set if you're if you
1725s break that down to 5 billion is per day
1727s you're only talking about 400 items and
1729s for me typically because I invest 4
1732s trillion this is the relevant set 400
1735s items so my spreadsheet has like 1500
1738s items so it's more the the green box
1740s right there but I certainly don't pull
1742s data on 40 000 items because that would
1743s just you know kill my sheets kill
1746s um uh kill the Third are the apps that
1749s I'm working with and the environment on
1752s the uh probably also
1754s um and then we have you know last time I
1756s went through this in detail I'm not
1757s going to do this today but like if
1758s you're just wondering like what's what's
1760s in that box like what what are what are
1762s things that are um that are in there
1764s it's uh it's really all all these things
1767s that you see here and uh you know it's a
1769s lot of raw materials that can build up
1771s into ships uh it's of course it's blacks
1774s and injectors and extractors because
1775s those are the three biggest uh trade
1777s items uh in in Eve
1779s it's some structures although they are
1782s expensive but move very slowly some of
1784s the most most popular ships but a lot of
1785s ships not even because a lot of ships
1787s are not very popular and they don't move
1791s um just to give you an idea so this is
1794s the breakdown of the forge the forge
1796s right now is trading at about 14
1798s trillion a day and this is the 50 that
1802s I'm talking about so if you take the
1804s daily trade volume in in Gita which is
1808s you know 90 something percent of the
1810s forge it's Plex injectors and extractors
1814s so it's
1815s um you know it's it's Plex and
1817s plexadjacent items that take up 50 of
1819s that volume so you know that that is why
1821s you hear a lot of spec speculators
1823s investors talking about you know
1825s investing in Plex and that's why when
1828s you have something like
1829s what I call like to call Plex again or
1832s uh what we had uh in in June about a 241
1836s extractor sale that's why people like me
1838s go absolutely uh crazy about stuff like
1841s that because it's it's it's like it's
1844s it's liquid right if you if you're
1846s buying extractors for cheap and you know
1848s you can sell them later without problems
1850s because it's a very liquid item then
1852s that's a one of the best opportunities
1854s in Eve online
1856s and so you know you've got uh modules
1861s um you've got uh ships you've got raw
1864s materials you've got basic minerals
1866s Commodities and then it just gets gets
1869s small right and then you have
1871s all of that other stuff most of that
1873s other stuff is
1875s um is also blue Loot and red loot
1877s because so loot you get from a whistle
1879s spacer from warmhole space that you sell
1882s back to NPC buy orders and
1885s [Music]
1886s that is essentially not really part of
1889s the market uh either because it has
1892s nothing to do with player build items
1894s it's really just an isk faucet that is
1896s pumping isk into the system so very
1899s significant but it's it's a big chunk of
1902s of other that doesn't really have a lot
1903s to do with the market
1906s um all right sheets and action examples
1908s of uh of of some opportunities that you
1910s can identify
1912s um with this so
1915s you can always look at items that are
1917s trading below yearly average that's what
1918s I do on a lot of uh a lot of cases I
1921s look at the total Market I look at
1922s what's trading below the 52-week average
1925s because a lot of things in new online
1927s are cyclical right you moon materials
1930s typically the way it goes unless you
1932s know unless CCP fiddles with it you
1936s I'm not pointing at anyone in particular
1938s over here just I can't see as just
1940s lights I can't see anything I promise
1944s um
1947s um more materials right outside of
1950s scarcity which is a word we don't utter
1952s around here
1953s um
1955s is you know
1956s they are expensive everyone goes mining
1959s them
1960s they put them on the market they crash
1962s the market they become cheap nobody
1964s Minds them anymore
1965s you buy them all people start mining
1968s them again and it's it's a it's a cycle
1969s right and people like me that have a lot
1971s of patience and a lot of isk can just
1972s ride that cycle and that's why
1975s um trading stuff below yearly average is
1977s very relevant right this it doesn't have
1980s it it doesn't work when there are
1982s patches and things that are
1983s significantly changing right so right
1985s now for example if you looked at my my
1987s dashboard
1989s um and you look at okay what's what's
1991s what are the the most interesting
1993s opportunities it will tell you oh buy
1995s Freighters you know because Freighters
1996s right now they're trading 20 below
1998s yearly average but you have to know in
2001s June I think it was when the bpcs were
2003s changed for a lot of these Freighters so
2005s if you don't know that you can't blindly
2007s follow your your spreadsheets or you're
2009s going to lose a lot of money but still
2011s below yearly average is a good indicator
2014s of finding good items to trade in
2016s below build cost is another
2018s but and you know for all the reasons
2020s that I just explained on on the build
2021s cost side but you have to be aware of
2025s um of these LP stores that are out there
2027s that will just make a a build cost
2031s completely irrelevant because if you can
2033s build a what is it I think it's a
2034s material right now that is completely
2036s messed up or that has been messed up for
2038s possibly years
2041s um
2042s um
2043s you you can build a material I think but
2045s it doesn't make any sense because you
2046s can buy the you can also trade in LP for
2049s a material um in the lp store
2052s if the lp is too cheap or if people you
2054s know generate too much LP for various
2057s reasons in Evil 9 people might might be
2060s sitting on a ton of Lte then they will
2062s crash the price and creating a material
2065s from abpc will never make any sense so
2067s if you're if you're trying to find items
2070s that are building and you have the
2071s greatest spreadsheet out there that
2073s identifies the items that are trading
2075s below build cost you have to be aware of
2077s LP stores
2079s I like to train items that are low on
2081s Supply so I I daily I monitor the those
2084s 1500 items that I deem relevant in Eve
2087s online and I look at which ones are are
2090s dangerously low in Supply because some
2092s sometimes you will see certain ship
2094s types you will see certain materials
2097s that will just you know they will you
2099s will see them over weeks they will
2100s slowly dwindle dwindle dwindle in Supply
2102s and at some point the price is just
2105s going to explode and if you can identify
2106s those items that's a very very powerful
2108s trade in Eve online and this happens
2110s with moon materials with even minerals
2113s you'd be surprised last week noxium
2115s right noxium is one of the basic
2117s minerals it got in Gita there was less
2121s than one trade day available that means
2124s that there was less noxium in the
2126s markets than is traded in the markets in
2129s one day and noxium is not a very Dynamic
2132s thing you know that that that people can
2134s generate vast amounts of yes you can
2136s find the guy or the girl that has a
2138s stockpile of this and can throw it onto
2141s the market at very uh at uh you know at
2144s a moment's notice but um I typically
2147s know those people that can do that
2149s um
2150s so that's that's another interesting
2152s thing uh increased trade volume also
2153s monitor what is trading just a lot right
2156s so is there an event going on where
2158s people are using a specific ship or
2160s where are people is there an event where
2163s people are
2165s um uh get to get some drops that are
2167s usually not dropping and then usually
2169s crashing the prices because not 90 of
2171s players will not care about the market
2173s price right they will loot at an event
2175s and dump it on the market crashing the
2177s price and if I'm there taking advantage
2179s of that then I can make a good trade
2181s future price increases so um for example
2184s as I mentioned that earlier briefly if
2186s you have a ship that is very popular
2190s um or even better certain modules that
2192s are in Fleet compositions right now then
2195s you can have a look at it and say okay
2197s we saw uh we saw a a dwindling Supply in
2202s this good the prices are through the
2204s roof likely if there are materials that
2208s go into it that are not abundant not raw
2210s materials or or more materials but maybe
2213s a salvage good or something that is
2214s rarer than that then you can speculate
2216s on those
2218s um those raw materials going into the
2221s finished goods and and increasing in
2223s price
2224s and then I just like items that have
2225s high volatility so I I calculate the
2228s volatility over items items that go up
2230s and down a lot just because you know
2232s buying low selling high is really all
2234s you need to know so um if you know these
2237s cases you typically you can work
2239s backwards from that case and then build
2241s a spreadsheet
2243s um to to to to to fulfill one of these
2248s goals that you have in trading or you
2250s know if you're if you're good then then
2252s three or four of them
2254s all right
2257s questions that was good that was fast
2260s we have seven minutes for questions I
2262s didn't expect that perfect yes please
2264s and I really can't see you I'm sorry
2271s so um
2273s uh so there's uh there's basically a
2276s standard deviation that you can that you
2278s can look at for for item price and
2281s typically I look at a price much more
2283s than than volume right because volume
2285s volatility is you know it's interesting
2287s but it's it it it's much harder to work
2289s with so a standard deviation over the
2292s price
2293s um over a year or a month is is
2295s typically a good good thing to go I
2297s don't
2298s um so the the mocam tool that I
2301s mentioned here several kpis already
2303s pre-calculated for volatility which is
2305s you know amazing so I you know anyone
2307s that that is interested in that I can
2309s just send to mocam.dk because he's
2312s really the best solution for that
2316s other questions
2319s yes sir what are some of the typical
2322s Cycles the easily observed cycles that
2325s we see you know weak leap or perhaps
2328s monthly or annually and as a follow-on
2331s or perhaps whether it's interesting or
2333s not is there any utility to perhaps
2336s expanding to multi-year trends
2340s I'll answer the second question first
2342s because I'm I'm always
2345s um most most Tools in Eve online look at
2348s the past year and to me that is an
2351s incredibly limiting thing to do and even
2353s even a lot of apis or third-party tools
2356s and like if we're talking about Market
2357s history one year is really nothing we're
2360s talking about a 20 year old game
2361s especially with basic minerals there's
2363s so much to learn from these cycles that
2366s mineral prices went through through
2368s various Wars and expansions so
2370s definitely a limiting factor and I I
2373s would I whenever I can and that's why I
2375s like Adam free Eve because he has the he
2377s has the the the the longer the longer
2380s part of that
2381s Cycles
2383s there's the super easy ones like
2386s um you know back in the day we had or
2388s back in the day up until this year we
2390s had uh we had
2391s um
2392s we had events
2395s I'm gonna get thrown out tonight
2397s um
2399s storyline events are also great
2401s um the we had the the girls we had the
2404s geckos you know the gecko blueprint
2406s dropping from an event it was very
2408s predictable it was kind of like the
2409s capsuleer day Society of conscious
2411s thought um you know the easiest trade in
2413s Eve online is buying you know buying the
2415s Praxis when everyone got a practice uh
2418s you know now I heard you get them on
2419s Twitch drops this weekend also but um uh
2422s you know it's it's uh the the
2427s the the cyclical I think event-driven
2430s items but only the ones that are really
2433s popular so there's a lot of trash right
2434s a little of trash but like gecko
2436s blueprints uh Praxis gnosis denisis
2440s those are really interesting the um
2443s agency boosters those are my favorite if
2445s you watch my stream that I talk about
2447s them all the time because uh agency
2449s boosters are not created in game they're
2451s only dropped in events but they're so
2453s popular that you know the pyrolencia
2456s boosters they go from some of them have
2460s you know 10 billion trade volumes so if
2462s you just if you have enough capital and
2464s you just you know vacuum them all up
2466s when they're dropping and you can wait
2469s you know three four months then you make
2471s a lot of money so those those are I
2474s think the the most common Cycles
2477s any other questions
2480s we're gonna we're gonna go there because
2482s I already had one yeah yeah
2485s it's okay frame
2487s I'm just spreading the love
2490s the good maintenance
2493s yeah
2497s he's loud uh how do I I'll repeat the
2500s question how do I Define diversification
2502s so
2505s so first of all what I always tell
2507s people if you don't know exactly what
2510s you're doing don't trade into an item
2512s more than 10 of the daily trade volume
2515s so when you have a ship ships are
2519s terrible by the way when you have a moon
2521s material that trades at you know 1
2524s billion a day if you don't know if
2527s you're getting your feedback if you're
2528s under trying to understand how the
2529s market Works don't buy more than 100
2531s million at a time because
2533s you know you don't you don't want to get
2535s stuck with it uh if if there's a lull
2537s and you don't want to have all your
2538s Capital tied up so what I always tell I
2542s have a I have something called zero to
2543s Omega where I just you know start from
2545s zero on and what I tell people is Pick
2548s 10 items but don't invest more than 10
2551s of the daily trade volume in there now
2553s what does it mean for me diversification
2556s with with 4 trillion I I showed you
2559s there's there's only about 400 items
2561s that I I deem relevant so I um you know
2565s out of the 4 trillion right now I have
2567s 1.5 trillion in skill extractors that's
2570s terrible diversification but it's also
2572s the trade of a lifetime because in June
2575s uh we had two for one extractors and I
2577s bought at 320 million a piece and they
2581s are at 460 million today and I haven't
2583s sold a single one
2585s so I'm I'm going long
2589s thank you CCP
2590s [Applause]
2595s there's one right there
2606s I noticed that in Europe do you put
2610s Rick's on the muscles
2616s yep
2617s too many animations
2623s next do you feel like
2627s um the size of modules
2630s where you just communication through
2633s and the size of you mean small medium
2635s large yes
2637s I don't look I don't look at the size at
2640s all when I'm doing trading no I look at
2642s trade volume and and trade volatility so
2645s I look at uh I end up trading in a lot
2647s of capital modules and debt space
2649s modules because that's just where the
2651s volume is because for me if I buy a
2654s module that that costs 500 000 is just
2657s it takes so much time to buy and sell
2659s and the profit potential is not there so
2662s that I end up just going into the
2665s largest most expensive ones but in terms
2668s of modules I think
2669s ninety percent of modules I invest or
2672s trade in are dead space modules because
2674s they're you know that's what that's
2676s where the volume is there's about 200
2678s billion a day traded in in Gita on Dead
2682s Space modules which is about as much as
2684s raw material materials so it's it's
2687s massive Dead Space modules are massive
2697s um I don't I don't ever haul uh I I only
2700s let other people haul for me for a set
2702s reason that the risk reward
2704s the question is ridiculous but um what I
2708s do right now with the with the four
2709s trillion that I do I've I have stopped
2712s going
2713s um outside because really Jita is you
2716s know as 85 of the the markets and so if
2719s you want to go and and move large sums
2722s of money even I try to go to the Dixie I
2726s try to go to Amar it's just the market
2728s gets too small very quickly
2730s um but that's that's I mean obviously a
2731s first world problem I mean you know for
2734s anyone else it's not really a problem
2736s yeah so I it's uh it's it's it's fine I
2740s mean that's just the problem I run into
2741s but that's why I trade in cheetah that's
2743s why I look at cheetah
2745s okay
2752s correct yeah although I mean if you
2754s watch Eden trades presentation at 11
2757s this morning what he does is he takes
2760s um you know he buys anjita itself and
2763s then ships it to 17 Market hubs and
2765s sells it there you know making 40 profit
2767s that that makes a lot of uh sense
2771s um
2772s you know also but that was with 18 000
2775s orders or something like that and and I
2778s I have I have a wife and I have kids so
2783s so I I can't do that anymore
2786s and a job but hey
2791s I used so I I started my career as a
2794s stock Trader I then moved into
2796s controlling and then I spent 10 years in
2798s management consulting and now I manage a
2800s data company so but it's not that far
2802s away from it's not it's not coincidental
2804s no
2807s body else no
2812s no I I'm very surprised that Eden said
2815s this morning that he's working with
2816s someone now I I can I cannot I I I I I
2819s have I literally have almost five
2822s trillion in money from other people and
2825s so I can't give anyone else the key if
2827s that I mean that was p
2829s unless I wanted to end up in the news
2831s one day
2834s Spotlight with anyone I would take that
2836s myself
2841s I said last year I might run away this
2843s year I I you know next year
2847s I'm still I'm still having a good time
2848s I'm making money on Twitch
2852s yes
2855s but when you're trying to offload stuff
2857s you've invested in yes you know if
2859s you're if you're trading at 10 of the
2861s market volume there's another 90 that
2863s are trying to sell just lower than you
2865s yes offload their stuff yeah what
2868s tactics can you give about how to
2869s actually optimal stuff I always tell
2872s everyone stop undercutting like real
2874s like really like set your price and go
2878s outside and enjoy life you're if you're
2880s trying to undercut people sell orders
2883s you're going to be a better person with
2887s a long beard
2889s um if if you're male
2891s and you're you're going to burn out
2894s you're gonna burn out of uh of of
2896s trading so I I never I don't do that
2899s anymore I don't do I do swing trading
2900s but you know that less margin less
2903s margin so I make less profit so the 40
2905s that Eden trade does no way right I mean
2907s I'm I'm moving in like like the the
2910s single digit profit percentage is here
2913s but I'm having a much much better time
2915s so I I would my suggestion would be
2918s don't don't try to undercut it yeah
2931s so the question yeah the question is uh
2934s do I work do I invest a lot on
2937s correlations between let's say a
2939s battleship that is going up in price and
2941s the materials on it and so the the ships
2945s the ships are one thing where that
2947s doesn't really all work that well
2949s because there's with ships it's
2951s everyone's dream and Eve online to build
2953s a ship and so everyone builds ships and
2956s everyone sells them under cost so it's
2958s like trading and ships is just it's just
2961s terrible right so I stick mostly with
2963s raw materials what I do trade on is more
2967s the macro stuff of there's a patch
2971s that fixes Capital ships
2974s whatever that means very I'm being very
2977s vague for vague for a reason so it fixes
2979s Capital ships and all of a sudden you
2981s know people are actually flying them
2983s again because they're not afraid of
2985s losing them that is something where raw
2988s material prices are going to as a whole
2989s really going to go up because production
2991s is going to ramp up that's more the
2994s stuff that I speculate on not the single
2996s rattlesnake that is popular this week
2998s because I'm going to be late and it's
3000s going to be not worth it
3002s I I think somebody's going to throw me
3003s out because it's I yeah yes yes okay
3005s last question go ahead
3010s sorry
3019s yeah I work in Excel I work a lot with
3021s color color coding so uh and queries so
3025s I pull in all the data and and I have
3027s you know um what do you call it uh
3030s hot hot zones
3032s heat Maps hot sounds
3036s I'm German by the way
3039s um you know I work with heat Maps a lot
3042s but then also the best tool is queries
3044s so I I pull in the spreadsheets and then
3046s I put this query on top of it that then
3049s goes through the the spreadsheet and
3051s says and I put in the variables so I say
3054s I want items that are trading under 90
3057s 52-week average at a higher than average
3060s volatility and under build cost and then
3064s it it pulls out the 10 items that are
3066s relevant and then I look at those 10
3067s items and I decide okay which ones of
3069s these make sense and then I trade on
3070s that
3071s if you have more questions please come
3074s find me I'm going to be here till Sunday
3076s uh just you know I'm I'm around just
3078s find me ask questions really sorry but I
3080s they're they're telling me I have to
3081s leave I have
3083s I have stickers
3089s thank you so much I have I have stickers
3091s if you want them I have more uh but
3093s they're just thank you thank you
3096s [Applause]
3097s very much thank you thank you