The Hermaion market report
Week 40, 2956
28 Sept to 4 Oct 2956
Every Monday, the week in the market: the best loops on our own route engine, the biggest price moves, the routes to watch and the Hermaion Index. Worked out from stored prices for a C2 Hercules (696 SCU) with 1,000,000 aUEC.
Read issue No. 1 as a bookletThe Hermaion Index
Margins, week on week.
What a hauler makes on each SCU of cargo on the best trade runs right now. Higher means trading pays better; a fall means margins are thinning.
1,452aUEC per SCU
The first week: nothing to compare with yet.
How the Index is worked out
- Every run from one terminal to another in the same system, on the week's stored prices.
- Each worked out for a C2 Hercules (696 SCU) with 1,000,000 aUEC to spend, so stock and budget limit how much it can carry.
- For each commodity, only its best run counts, so one cargo cannot fill the list.
- The 10 most profitable of those make the Index.
- Their margins (sell price minus buy price, per SCU) are averaged, weighted by the SCU carried on each, so a rare cargo the budget buys little of barely moves it.
Read it like a stock index: one number for the state of the market, compared week on week.
The ten routes behind it
| Route | Cargo | Margin | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chawla's Beach to Ashland | Elespo | 6,000 | 17,000 | 11,000 |
| Shubin Mining Facility SAL-2 to Everus Harbor | Corundum | 2,508 | 3,900 | 1,392 |
| Shubin Mining Facility SMCa-8 to Nyx Gateway | Quartz | 3,120 | 5,100 | 1,980 |
| Ruin Station to Patch City | Silicon | 1,881 | 2,900 | 1,019 |
| Starlight Service Station to Endgame | DynaFlex | 1,350 | 2,000 | 650 |
| Gaslight to Stanton Gateway | Distilled Spirits | 1,312 | 1,950 | 638 |
| Bueno Ravine to Endgame | Iron | 2,640 | 3,800 | 1,160 |
| Jackson's Swap to Seer's Canyon | Recycled Material Composite | 5,998 | 8,500 | 2,502 |
| Rustville to Shepherd's Rest | Organics | 9,257 | 13,000 | 3,743 |
| Canard View to Jackson's Swap | Diamond Laminate | 66,880 | 100,000 | 33,120 |
Best loops
The best loops this week.
Two and three stop round trips within one system, by profit per hour, on our own route engine.
- 01Shepherd's RestThe Golden RivieraRustvilleShepherd's Rest
Golden Medmon, Bioplastic, Organics
1,244,187 aUEC/h
47 min a loop, estimated
- 02Shepherd's RestThe Golden RivieraStarlight Service StationShepherd's Rest
Golden Medmon, E'tam, Nitrogen
1,194,654 aUEC/h
41 min a loop, estimated
- 03MIC-L1 Shallow Frontier StationRayari Anvik Research OutpostMIC-L1 Shallow Frontier Station
Astatine, Nitrogen
1,123,006 aUEC/h
30 min a loop, estimated
- 04Shepherd's RestJackson's SwapRustvilleShepherd's Rest
Degnous Root, Recycled Material Composite, Organics
1,109,444 aUEC/h
54 min a loop, estimated
- 05Bueno RavineThe Golden RivieraRustvilleBueno Ravine
Bexalite, Bioplastic, Dymantium
1,078,892 aUEC/h
47 min a loop, estimated
Prices
What moved most.
Our own daily record does not reach back far enough to compare yet.
Up
Not enough history yet.
Down
Not enough history yet.
Routes to watch
A quiet week.
Hazard reports from our associates, on each route or near either end of it: interdictions, attacks and hostile ships. 0 reports in all.
A quiet week: no hazard reports on these routes.