Being Flexible - Stopping my Robotics PI Planets

One component of my industry side was 10 PI factory planets, nothing was extracted just 40,000 m3 of Mechanical Parts/Consumer Electronics was transferred down to each planet(Divided up into the 4 launch pads per planet). From there 3 factories churned away for 4 days until I picked up approximately 45,000 robotics and sold via Jita. The whole system was click intensive to pick up, but once it was running the only challenge was dividing up the stacks of goods into each launch pad.

Then the patch hit, and robotics started falling. This was expected due to the changes in PI goods use so i've been careful to monitor my costs and margin and as my last cycle was completing I noticed that it is no longer profitable to produce Robotics(in highsec). Once you factor in taxes you would lose 2300 isk per unit before your taxes/brokerage fees even kick in.

Robotics, loved it while it lasted.

With the volume of Robotics still consumer I'm expecting prices to adjust over time so that there will be profit in highsec factory planets. We'll see how long until I get the ambition to go click crazy and switch them over though.

Terrible last minute speculation

I'll admit to being a terrible patch speculator, I returned to Eve only as the details were coming out for the most recent round of changes so not really having the time to dig into patch notes I figured the bulk of speculative opportunities were already being exploited. A fault assumption I realize now once I broke out the old eve spreadsheet and calculated the new cost of formerly T1 battleships. A Domi is currently settling for 120m and has a build cost of roughly 210m.

Alright, i'll cave...I've got the isk to follow a medium term investment and dont have the time for active trading. Just short of 10 billion isk dropped on 80 battleships later...

From an overall diversification perspective, this makes up about a third of my active funds at the moment while still leaving me with 15-17 billion in market sell orders and 2-2.5 billion tied up in PI/Production.

So EVE is down, what else to do?

Kerbal Space Program, that is all

Tools of the trade

Slowly discovering tools to assist in my trading and found out about jEveAssets from a blog named Merchant Monarchy (http://merchantmonarchy.blogspot.ca/). Its exactly the broad overview type asset calculator I was looking for, I'm still keeping an eye out for something that will keep track of profit/item reliable through purchasing over multiple accounts but considering my trading style at the moment has a relatively reliable margin I'm not overly stressed for now.

With my work keeping me busy I've set myself up trading goods that have a lower volume, lower margin, but I can be sure that they will sell eventually at my current prices. A 5% margin may be nothing to boast about but when reading other market bloggers but when its on 10-15 billion of revenue its at least keeping my 2 accounts in PLEX while I'm busy outside of Eve.

I've also setup a series of PI factory planets that can run for 5 days without intervention and turn about a 10-15% ROI each week, a stupid amount of clicking to get 10 planets setup but now it should just be pickup and drop off in a freighter. I've got a third PI character that can run 6 planets but I'll probably take a PI click-fest break for a couple of days and have the third character ready to jump in for the next resupply round.

Nothing amazingly profitable but all together brings in enough to keep me going and get back into the swing of things. Reading up on the upcoming expansion and realizing i'm way to far out of the loop at the moment to understand all the changes and how they will impact the market. Overall though, i'm avoiding anything ice or tech 2 related at the moment.