simple : dont. Wait and see how things turn out before trying to turn profit in this current swath of chaos.
I am an ebil markeeter and will steal your moneiz ...correction stole your moneiz. I support keeping the poor down because it is impossible to make moneiz in this game.
Unless you've borrowed goods from someone, you can't technically sell short, right?
You could--provided the price falls far enough that the market fee doesn't eat away your profit--sell the stock you have on hand now, and then buy it back in the future at lower rates. Thus you'd have the same stock and some inf, which--if prices continued to fall--would be worth even more than when you acquired it.
I haven't been able to work a way out, myself. I suppose the closest thing would be if you could raid stuff out of an SG base, sell it, rebuy it for less, and put it back.
And, y'know, if you do this, and someone wants to hit you, I'll hold you down for them.
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@Boltcutter in game.
Use vetspecs, take out the IOs you think are going to keep falling from as many characters as you can, sell them, and then buy and reslot when the prices go way down?
That seems like an insane amount of work, but you'd end up with more inf that you had at the start.
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I work in the real life financial markets and I can tell you that the CoX market is a real-item market....not a symbolic market like we have moved to in the financial sector. I know things are supposed to be attached to real goods...but you can short a stock on the NYSE without actually having borrowed it from somewhere (which is how some stocks had short positions of 100% or higher during the financial crisis)...........you can also trade derivatives of derivatives which means you're so far removed from the real item that its symbolic.
In CoX an item is actually delivered on every transaction that succeeds so I don't see any way with how its set up to do a shorting system. Unless some enterprising player was to set up an off-market brokerage which allowed you to borrow items from them and so on. I just don't see that working...this isn't City of Brokers and trust me if it was most of you would want to poke your eyes out with forks rather than keep playing.
Is there a way to make a profit when you know the either the prices for an item are overinflated and/or will drop due to some in-game change.
I am not talking about a temporary dip (where you can just buy low, wait and sell high when equilibrium is restored). I mean a "for the foreseeable future" decrease in price.
For example LotG +7.5's seem to be dropping and I think will continue to do so due to the new alignment merits. Assuming that is correct, I just can't figure out how to make money off it.