Quote Originally Posted by Dashuto View Post
Its something called "market control". By controlling the prices, when it inflates or deflates, and discouraging my competition, I end up in control of the market.
But you only stay in "control" of the market while you're keeping prices so low that nobody including yourself can make any money on it. The moment you try to actually make a profit, then everyone else can make a profit too, and they're all back. You can never corner a market because you cannot make anything that hundreds of other people can't also make just as easily. And you can't ever control the supply of materials when anyone can get their own materials.

Now you may occasionally get lucky and find an item that nobody else is selling at the moment, so you can make and sell that without competition until someone else bothers to put some of the same item up for sale. But that can happen regardless of whether you crashed the market earlier or not. Chances are, the only reason you think you can "corner" a market is because you happened to get lucky once or twice and developed a superstitious belief that it had something to do with your own earlier actions, when in fact it didn't. You're not unique enough to ever control any markets here.