i ' m not salty , i just called you an asshole . you ' re the one getting bent over some random person ' s kids on the internet , i couldn ' t care less about them . <| sep |> Milk v Google Home , literally apples and oranges . <| sep |> Basically there are a few main types of trading 1 . Station trading Sit in a station and setup buy orders as soon as it ' s filled put it back up via a sell order , earning the delta between the two . 2 . Regional trading Buy goods somewhere like Amarr and haul it to another region for sale like Jita . Since each region has it ' s own market you can take advantage of the arbitrage . 3 . Lazyness Buy goods and move them to popular missioning sites , things like drones , ammo etc . As people will pay a premium to not have to travel to get them . Same thing for staging systems , or null sec jump off points , or popular factional war systems with things like nanite paste . 4 . Regional buy orders Many people move , or just want to sell junk they have lying around but don ' t want to collect it all and move it to a market hub for sale . You can setup cheap regional buy orders to take advantage of that . Depending on the goods you may not even need to collect them , just buy cheap and repost if you have the time to let the order soak . With good skills you never have to leave the station to do this . 5 . Market manipulation If you have enough liquid isk you can mess with markets by purchasing all of a specific item that is for sale and then repost them at a higher value . Or hire mercs to kill competitors in a market to help create scarcity and increase the value of your product . 6 . Speculation Look at the patch notes for future releases and try to speculate on what the market effects will be . Purchase product ahead of the patch and attempt to profit if the market moves in your favor . I ' m sure there are more , but these 6 spring to mind .