Editing Making ISK as an Explorer (section)

==Strategy 3: Selling using sell orders==
Why sell using a sell order?  Outside of Jita, many standard loot items have significant price differences between the cheapest sell orders and the highest buy orders.  Even in Jita, slower-moving items (due to high expense or a fragmented market) will also have such a premium for sell orders.  So placing selected lines of loot on the market using sell orders can provide the explorer with much additional ISK.  

The best prospects for sell orders can be spotted while selling to buy orders. Simplly check the market details for any item where the quoted buy price is well below the market average.  For example, an item with a ''buy'' order that offers 20% ''below'' market average will have ''sell'' orders at about 50% (=1.20/0.80) ''above'' the offered price. (This assumes equal volumes of transactions on the sell orders versus the buy orders.)

The challenge is making the sale with a sell order.  Two things need to happen:
# A buyer needs to make a purchase request for the loot item in question and
# The explorer's sell order needs to be the one with the most competitive price at that time.
Buyers tend to prefer to purchase from one of the main trade hubs -- so most sales are made there and players should ship their goods to these.  For some items, e.g. ship skins and rare faction drops, only Jita has the sales volume to make it viable to sell these items.  The disadvantage of busy trade hubs is that other players with sell orders for the same item will repeatedly modify their orders to undercut your price, ensuring that they, and not you, get the sale.  The main counter is to respond in-kind and relist at a lower price '''or''' wait for the market to clear their stock out, bringing your sell order back to the top of the list.

The above consideration means that the player need to be able to log in a character relatively frequently at a location within the range specified by their Daytrading skill, from where their sell orders are.  The usual strategy is to dedicate one alt to this trading activity, tranferring exploration loot from the exploration alt to the trading alt by means of private contracts. (One region is the maximum range for order re-listing, i.e. with an alt with [https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Skills:Trade#Daytrading Daytrading V] trained up.)