Trade Opportunities¶
Finds profitable station-to-station hauls by comparing cached sell orders at a source station against buy or sell orders at a destination, then turns the best items into a shopping list — limited, if you like, by your hold, your budget and how much the destination actually sells.
Open it from the left sidebar under Market / Trade.
What it shows¶
A results grid, one row per item type worth hauling, sorted by total profit by default:
| Column | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Item | Type name. Double-click a row to open it in the Item Browser. |
| Sell Price | Cheapest sell-order price at the source station (your buy cost per unit). |
| Dest Price | The destination price you sell into — the best buy-order price, or the cheapest destination sell price, depending on mode. |
| Profit / Unit | Dest price minus source sell price. |
| Profit / m³ | Profit per unit divided by packaged volume — the ranking metric for the underlying scan. Abbreviated like the other ISK figures (for example 12.35B). |
| Qty | Units to buy, capped by available orders, cargo space, your ISK budget and the destination's sales (see Max Buy below). |
| Volume (m³) | Total packaged volume for that quantity. |
| Total Cost | Quantity × source sell price. |
| Total Profit | Quantity × profit per unit. |
| Dest Units Sold 30d | Units traded in the destination's region over the last 30 days. |
| Dest ISK Sold 30d | ISK traded in the destination's region over the last 30 days — the room a sell order there has, which matters most for Undercut Sell Order. |
A footer summary (shown after a run) gives loaded Volume (used / cargo, or just the volume when no cargo is set), total Cost, and total Profit. A status line reports the item-type count and m³ loaded, or messages such as no opportunities found.
Using it¶
- Mode — choose how the destination price is evaluated:
- Buy Sell → Sell to Buy Order — buy from source sell orders, sell into destination buy orders. Only destination buy orders priced above the source cost are counted (junk 1-ISK orders are ignored).
- Buy Sell → Undercut Sell Order — buy from source sell orders and resell against the destination's own sell orders (only where the destination sell price beats your cost).
- From / To — pick the source and destination stations (type to filter). Only stations with cached orders appear; they must be different.
- Cargo (m³) — your hauler's capacity (60000 to start). The list is packed to fit. Leave it empty for no volume limit: every profitable item is then listed at what is on offer.
- ISK Cap — optional budget ceiling; leave blank for no limit.
- Min 30d ISK Vol / Min 30d Unit Vol — optional liquidity filters that drop items whose 30-day traded volume (ISK or units) in the destination region falls below the threshold.
- Max Buy (Days of Dest Sales) — buys no more of an item than the destination's region sold in this many days. It starts at 30, a month's sales, and takes any whole number of days; leave it empty for no cap. Buying a thousand of something the destination sells three of a month is stock for years.
- Exclude Groups — click + Add Group to exclude a market group and everything nested under it (e.g. skip Blueprints or Ships). Excluded groups appear as chips; click ✕ to remove one. Exclusions are saved between sessions.
- Click Calculate. A progress overlay shows while the scan runs.
The algorithm walks candidate items from best profit-per-m³ downward, buying as many units of each as available orders, remaining cargo, remaining ISK and the Max Buy cap allow, until the hold or budget is full. Click any column header to re-sort the results.
With Max Buy set, an item the destination sold none of in that many days drops out. An item whose sales history hasn't been read yet isn't capped at all, so check its Dest Sold 30d columns before buying a lot of it. The two Dest Sold 30d columns stay 30-day figures whatever the Max Buy window.
To find one item in the results, type all or part of its name in the Item name box under the excluded groups. The list narrows as you type, with no need to calculate again; case and accents don't matter. Beside the box, Showing 12 of 840 says how many rows the filter leaves. The filter only narrows what the grid shows: the footer's volume, cost and profit are still the whole list's. It isn't remembered between sessions, so no rows seem to be missing next time.
Notes¶
- This tool compares two markets, so you need cached orders for both the source and destination stations. Make sure you have at least two market price sources configured and refreshed — see Configuring Markets.
- The Dest Sold 30d columns, the Min 30d volume filters and the Max Buy cap read market history for the destination region, cached in the background — no ESI calls are made while you calculate. If the destination's region can't be worked out, the columns read 0 and nothing is capped; with a Min 30d filter set, the calculation stops with a message instead — refresh market data for the destination, or clear the filters.
- Prices reflect the last cached order sweep; they are a snapshot, not a live quote, so verify in-game before committing to a large haul.
- Related tools: Market Overview for regional demand context, and Market Levels for watching restock levels at a single station.