The Hermaion market report
Week 43, 2956
19 Oct to 25 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. 4 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.
1,253aUEC per SCU
-3.7%Last week 1,301, down 3.7%.
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shubin Mining Facility SMCa-8 to Nyx Gateway | Quartz | 3,120 | 5,100 | 1,980 |
| Ashland to Chawla's Beach | LifeCure Medsticks | 574 | 1,400 | 826 |
| Shubin Mining Facility SAL-2 to Everus Harbor | Corundum | 2,508 | 3,900 | 1,392 |
| Fallow Field to Shepherd's Rest | Audio-Visual Equipment | 25,004 | 39,000 | 13,996 |
| Ruin Station to Patch City | Silicon | 1,881 | 2,900 | 1,019 |
| Rustville to Shepherd's Rest | Organics | 9,257 | 14,000 | 4,743 |
| Gaslight to Stanton Gateway | Distilled Spirits | 1,312 | 2,000 | 688 |
| Starlight Service Station to Endgame | DynaFlex | 1,350 | 2,000 | 650 |
| Bueno Ravine to Endgame | Iron | 2,640 | 3,800 | 1,160 |
| Shubin Mining Facility SAL-2 to MIC-L5 Modern Icarus Station | Hephaestanite | 3,929 | 5,600 | 1,671 |
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
1,382,059 aUEC/h
47 min a loop, estimated
- 02AshlandFallow FieldAshland
Amioshi Plague, Audio-Visual Equipment
1,352,949 aUEC/h
34 min a loop, estimated
- 03Shepherd's RestRustvilleShepherd's Rest
Fresh Food, Organics
1,257,946 aUEC/h
34 min a loop, estimated
- 04Bueno RavineThe Golden RivieraRustvilleBueno Ravine
Bexalite, Bioplastic, Dymantium
1,235,173 aUEC/h
47 min a loop, estimated
- 05AshlandChawla's BeachSeer's CanyonAshland
LifeCure Medsticks, Atlasium, Audio-Visual Equipment
1,228,496 aUEC/h
51 min a loop, estimated
Prices
What moved most.
The average aUEC per SCU players got across every terminal, on the last day of the week against a week before. Our own daily record.
Up
- Compboard30,314 to 30,841 aUEC+1.7%
- Cobalt20,136 to 20,455 aUEC+1.6%
- Chlorine1,447 to 1,465 aUEC+1.2%
Down
- Iodine11,275 to 11,098 aUEC-1.6%
- E'tam24,143 to 23,821 aUEC-1.3%
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.