Trade Skills

Trade skills fall into three functional groups: more market slots, remote trading, and reduced trading overhead.

The core market slot skills are:

•            Trade •            Retail •            Wholesale •            Tycoon

The remote trading and order-management skills are:

•            Marketing •            Procurement •            Daytrading •            Visibility

The trading overhead reduction skills are:

•            Accounting •            Broker Relations •            Advanced Broker Relations

Accounting and Broker Relations should always be trained to V for market characters. Taxes and broker fees directly reduce profit, and most serious market activity is too margin-sensitive to leave these skills undertrained.

Recommended progression:

Beginner trader

•            Trade III. •            Retail III. •            Wholesale III if available or when prerequisites permit. •            Tycoon III if available or when prerequisites permit. •            Marketing III. •            Procurement III. •            Daytrading III. •            Visibility III. •            Advanced Broker Relations III. •            Accounting V. •            Broker Relations V.

This level is suitable for basic station trading, simple hub trading, small-volume arbitrage, and learning market behavior without overtraining every skill immediately.

Serious station trader

•            Trade IV. •            Retail IV. •            Wholesale IV. •            Tycoon IV if available or when prerequisites permit. •            Marketing IV. •            Procurement IV. •            Daytrading IV. •            Visibility IV. •            Advanced Broker Relations IV. •            Accounting V. •            Broker Relations V.

This level is suitable for serious Jita, Amarr, Dodixie, Hek, Rens, High Sec mission hub, and corporation staging-market work.

Regional or remote trader

•            Trade V. •            Retail V. •            Wholesale V. •            Tycoon V. •            Marketing V. •            Procurement V. •            Daytrading V. •            Visibility V. •            Accounting V. •            Broker Relations V. •            Advanced Broker Relations V.

Regional and remote traders should have all market skills at V. This is the standard for characters managing orders across High Sec, Low Sec, Null, WH / J Space logistics chains, staging hubs, coalition markets, and multiple trade regions.

The most important market skills are Accounting V and Broker Relations V because trading margins are often thinner than they look. If your gross spread is 10% but taxes, broker fees, relists, and hauling consume 6%, your real margin is only 4%.