EDDN VS ed-price-check

Data comes from all the players using the apps which submit data to the EDDN (Elite Dangerous Data Network), which does not store any of the data but streams it to various sites like EDDB who do store data and provide backups, see: https://github.com/EDCD/EDDN

If anyone is up to it, EDDB was pretty much a frontend/database for EDDN (which does not appear to be shut down). If you ever configured EDMC to send data to EDDB, it was basically send to that. EDDN to be clear doesn't store the data, it just makes it available for any interest party.

For more details see the EDDN github.

Have a look at https://github.com/EDCD/EDDN

The hardcore traders are monitoring the EDDN feed directly. They get alerts in Discord (or via text message) when commodities sell above thresholds they set. They're monitoring the background simulation (BGS), participating in coordinated market scouting efforts, and even manipulating the BGS to get desirable states like Boom or Public Holiday. They're supporting Powers that give influence or trade bonuses. They have fleet carriers that stockpile desirable commodities, and they're part of squadrons that can completely fulfill a station's demand anywhere in the Bubble in 15 minutes or less. If you want to get the best possible prices for your mined commodities, you need to raise your level of gameplay to match these players.

https://github.com/EDCD/EDDN/tree/live - EDDN is also data sharing

Depends on how many CMDRS are syncing their journals to EDDN: Elite Dangerous Data Network

Helping the community. There is a gigantic database called EDDN that gets data from many different sources to build the tools you've seen above and much more. It's a phenomenal community-based enterprise, and one of the reasons why I've fallen in love with this game (despite the Black Adders). Wanna contribute? The link above will guide you through. Basically download, install and configure one of the recommended apps and all necessary information will be sent to the database, for everyone to use.

If you're writing a tool that looks to send over EDDN then please be sure you read all the documentation (which I've recently spent time improving) -> https://github.com/EDCD/EDDN/tree/live .

The hardcore traders are monitoring the EDDN feed directly. They get alerts in Discord (or via text message) when commodities sell above thresholds they set. They're monitoring the background simulation (BGS), participating in coordinated market scouting efforts, and even manipulating the BGS to get desirable states like Boom or Public Holiday. They're supporting Powers that give influence or trade bonuses. They have fleet carriers that stockpile desirable commodities, and they're part of squadrons that can completely fulfill a station's demand anywhere in the Bubble in 15 minutes or less. If you want to get the best possible prices for your mined commodities, you need to raise your level of gameplay to match these players.

FDev did some much-needed rebalancing: - a volume discount mechanic steeply reduces your profit margins on trade goods if you have more than about 25% of the station's demand for that good in your inventory - also station commodity demand can be fulfilled, so good luck getting the jump on dedicated carrier-based traders who watch station markets like hawks using tools like ED Alerts or ed-price-check; to beat them, you need to return to your roots—turn off EDDiscovery/EDMC and start scoping out commodity markets at stations that haven't gotten EDDN market updates for at least a month - new tritium hotspots in icy rings (RIP in peace the 3x LTD overlap in the Borann A 2 A ring) - low temperature diamonds got nerfed and rightly so (but this completely screwed up tritium spawn rates, which sucks) - current mining meta is mapped high/haz RES overlapping a platinum or painite hotspot; see r/EliteMiners for details - both PvE combat and AX combat pay a lot better; I've bought three fleet carriers with wing massacre mission payouts - combat XP from Thargoid scouts got nerfed—again, rightly so

The other trick is to write a program that watches the Elite Dangerous Data Network (EDDN) directly. This one is mine. If you search here, r/EliteDangerous, or r/EliteCarriers, you should find a web site that offers a similar service. As soon as someone sends a market update over EDDN that matches your search criteria, you’ll get an alert. That’s how I was finding 325-380k per tonne for platinum with market demand in the thousands. But you have to be quick about it, because everyone else is watching INARA or using that web site’s alerts, too.