Market Ward Madness

[GrimWarlock]

People just don't know how to play the market. The only tactic they know is "undercutting". Like in this example:




For some odd reason, the guy indicated by the orange arrow undercut the other guy below him. I guess he was in a hurry to sell, what doesn't make sense is that he then proceeds to undercut himself, and then more people follow and keep undercutting the undercutter (red box).

So what I did was simple, buy everything in the Green box and flip it for 380, making profit from other people's darksteel ore.

Ah, someone with business sense!

[HurtigeKarl]

Ah, someone with business sense!

Depending on how often someone sells there, it is risky behaviour, since the miners are likely to have a hell lot more of ore than they put on the market. (I.e. the miners are pretending to have lower supply than they actually have, to get better price for the work they've already done) So if the miner sees that he has been bought out, he should immidietely put more and more ore into the market. On faster markets, you may have time enough to sell some stuff if not all before the miner puts more of his stack there.