The Market Interface

When you look at the top-left of your market interface, you see the region you are currently in. The market in Eve only lets you view as far as the boundaries of the region you are in. You can also set a filter to limit the results to station or solar system. If you don't see the items you want to buy listed, you might want to uncheck the little box at the bottom-left labelled "Show only available". There are three tabs to the left of which the first shows you the browse function where items are listed in different categories, the second gives a search function where you can directly search for items and the third is a quickbar for easy access to the items you often look at. You can add items to the quickbar by right-clicking on the item and selecting add to quickbar.

On the top of market window you can see another set of tabs, the first being the market details in the region, the second a groups tab where you can directly compare different items of the same group, the third shows your market buy/sell orders and last tab is for market orders of your corporation.

Browsing Market

Under Browse tab you can see the tree under which an item is listed. This is especially helpful if you can't remember where a certain item is listed under. Let's assume you want to find a named afterburner but can't remember the name. So what you do is type Afterburner into the search window and click on one of the results. This will show you the tree next to the name of the module, as well as giving you the option to go into the groups tab for direct comparison.

Groups Tab

In the groups tab you can see a blue button with an i in it - this will open the info on that particular item. The info button can be found in various locations and the info can also be accessed by right-clicking and selecting Show Info.

Details Tab

If you look at the two areas in the centre of the market screen, you will see that there is one named Sellers and another named Buyers. Sellers include all players and NPC that are trying to sell this item. Here you can see how far away the item is, how many units are available, where the item is located and when the offer will expire. You can sort the results by clicking on the little arrows and you can also right-click on the results in the Sellers area to buy an item or set your destination in the autopilot.

If you buy an item that isn't in your station, you will have to travel and pick up the item, which will be in your hangar after you have bought it.

The Buyers section works just like the Sellers, with the exception that you can't directly sell to a buyer from here but instead have to right-click on your item in the hangar and select sell this item. The green bars show you which buyers you could sell to. These can also be buy orders from further away, but the green bar indicates that the buyer is willing to travel and pick up the item from your station. If you can't find a sell order you like you can place a buy order. This order will be listed in your Orders tab.

Market Orders

If you are trying to sell or buy items, but don't like the prices offered to you, you can set up orders. This can be either for buying or selling. To buy an item you use the Place buy order button. For this you will have to pay a broker's fee, which is 0.9% of the order price or a minimum of 100 ISK. You can also set a quantity, the minimum amount of units someone selling would have to fill in, the range you are willing to travel (requires skills), the price and the duration. The duration of your order doesn't influence the broker's fee. The ISK you would have to pay when the buy order got filled will be taken from your wallet immediately. If you cancel the order or if it times out, the ISK will be transferred back to your wallet. However, the broker's fee will not be refunded.

Sale orders work pretty much the same - you need to right-click on the item you want to sell and select sell item. Either you sell immediately, which means you don't pay a broker's fee, or you use the Advanced button to the bottom-right. That way you can enter an ask price, the duration and the quantity. However, in this case you will have to pay the broker's fee. Additionally there is a sales tax of 1.0% on any sales - sell orders or direct sales. Those are not refundable but always remain the same, regardless of the duration of the order. The item you are trying to sell will get taken out of your hangar immediately and returned if the order times out or you cancel it in the My Orders tab by right-clicking on it. Here you can also edit any orders you have up by right-clicking on them.

There are various skills that benefit you when trading. Those can be found in the "Trade" section of the skills listed on the market.

Price History

In this tab you find several graphs that give you technical data on the price history of an item. The red and the green line both show the moving average - red for 5 days and green for 20 days. The brownish area called the Donchian Channel marks the field between the highest and the lowest sale. This gives you an idea on how much the prices fluctuate - a wide channel means a lot of fluctuation, a narrow channel fairly stable prices.

The yellow squares are the Median Day Price, which indicates the middle range at which an item got sold on that day.

The light green vertical bars at the bottom of the price history indicate the amount of units sold per day.

You can set the time frame for the price history and by clicking the "Show Table" button, you can also see the data in the shape of a table instead of graphs.