Editing Making ISK as an Explorer (section)

==Strategy 1: Selling to buy orders==
Selling to existing buy orders is the simplest method in-game.  Place you item in your in-station item hanger, right-click and select "Sell this item".  Where you sell, however, is vitally important.  The best buy prices in the game are with the biggest trade hubs:
* [https://evemaps.dotlan.net/station/Jita_IV_-_Moon_4_-_Caldari_Navy_Assembly_Plant Jita IV - Moon 4 - Caldari Navy Assembly Plant]
* [https://evemaps.dotlan.net/station/Amarr_VIII_(Oris)_-_Emperor_Family_Academy Amarr VIII (Oris) - Emperor Family Academy]
* [https://evemaps.dotlan.net/station/Dodixie_IX_-_Moon_20_-_Federation_Navy_Assembly_Plant Dodixie IX - Moon 20 - Federation Navy Assembly Plant]
* [https://evemaps.dotlan.net/station/Hek_VIII_-_Moon_12_-_Boundless_Creation_Factory Hek VIII - Moon 12 - Boundless Creation Factory]
* [https://evemaps.dotlan.net/station/Rens_VI_-_Moon_8_-_Brutor_Tribe_Treasury Rens VI - Moon 8 - Brutor Tribe Treasury]
For high-volume goods, the buy prices don't differ hugely between these hubs, usually by less than 10%.  For rarer, high-value items, e.g. rare manufacturing components found in some Covert Research Sites, Jita will have significantly better prices.  Because volumes for these are extermely low in the other trade hubs, any buy orders are usually speculative in nature and could be as low as 10% of Jita buy prices.

One challenge the game throws up for explorers far from Jita is that one cannot see in-game what the Jita buy prices are. The "Regional Market" interface only gives the buy orders for the region the player is currently in.  A player can use third-party tools that access the EVE external API to get visibility into orders from across all regions:
* [https://evemarketer.com/ EVEMarketer]
* [https://www.adam4eve.eu/ Adam4EVE]
* [https://evetycoon.com/market EVE Tycoon]

'''The low-risk selling strategy -- choosen by perhaps a majority of explorers in the game -- is to simply transport everything to Jita and sell there.'''

The major exception to the above are those goods that have NPC buy orders associated with them.  These NPC buy orders are at specific stations, generally not trade hubs, and the player buy orders at the trade hubs are nearly always lower:  
* For regular exploration sites, the main examples are the "blue loot" Sleeper components from Sleeper Caches.  Exceptionally, one trade hub with the relevant NPC buy orders is Amarr.  For other regions, look for buy orders with expiry times in excess of 364 days - these cannot be made by players and must be NPC orders.
* Some event exploration sites will yield Overseer's Personal Effects.  These can be sold at CONCORD stations.
* Some events will also have tokens that need to be turned in at specific NPC stations -- see CCP's event information on the Agency tool for details.