The Hermaion market report
Week 41, 2956
5 Oct to 11 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. 2 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.
1,291aUEC per SCU
-11%Last week 1,452, down 11%.
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Megumi Refueling to Rod's Fuel 'N Supplies | Copper | 2,660 | 4,400 | 1,740 |
| Megumi Refueling to Patch City | Silicon | 1,777 | 2,900 | 1,123 |
| 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 |
| Rustville to Shepherd's Rest | Organics | 9,257 | 13,500 | 4,243 |
| 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 |
| Megumi Refueling to Dudley & Daughters | Aluminum | 2,584 | 3,800 | 1,216 |
| Rustville to Bueno Ravine | Dymantium | 17,480 | 26,000 | 8,520 |
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.
- 01AshlandFallow FieldAshland
Amioshi Plague, Audio-Visual Equipment
1,353,155 aUEC/h
34 min a loop, estimated
- 02Shepherd's RestThe Golden RivieraRustvilleShepherd's Rest
Golden Medmon, Bioplastic, Organics
1,313,123 aUEC/h
47 min a loop, estimated
- 03Megumi RefuelingStanton GatewayMegumi Refueling
Copper, Iron
1,207,895 aUEC/h
38 min a loop, estimated
- 04Bueno RavineThe Golden RivieraRustvilleBueno Ravine
Bexalite, Bioplastic, Dymantium
1,187,658 aUEC/h
47 min a loop, estimated
- 05Shepherd's RestThe Golden RivieraStarlight Service StationShepherd's Rest
Golden Medmon, E'tam, Nitrogen
1,179,203 aUEC/h
41 min a loop, estimated
Prices
What moved most.
The best price players get, against that terminal's month average from UEX, until our own daily record covers a week.
Up
- Quartz4,400 to 5,500 aUEC+25%
- Gasping Weevil Eggs64,000 to 77,000 aUEC+20%
- Fresh Food24,000 to 28,000 aUEC+17%
Down
- Hydrogen Fuel740 to 180 aUEC-76%
- Quantum Fuel1,600 to 930 aUEC-42%
- Pitambu78,000 to 71,000 aUEC-9.0%
Routes to watch
Where the trouble was.
Hazard reports from our associates, on each route or near either end of it: interdictions, attacks and hostile ships. 2 reports in all.
A quiet week: no hazard reports on these routes.