The Hermaion market report
Week 44, 2956
26 Oct to 1 Nov 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. 5 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.
1,454aUEC per SCU
+16%Last week 1,253, up 16%.
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 SM0-13 to Nyx Gateway | Quartz | 2,964 | 5,100 | 2,136 |
| 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 |
| Gaslight to Stanton Gateway | Distilled Spirits | 1,312 | 2,000 | 688 |
| Canard View to Jackson's Swap | Diamond Laminate | 66,880 | 100,000 | 33,120 |
| Rustville to Shepherd's Rest | Organics | 9,257 | 13,500 | 4,243 |
| Bueno Ravine to Endgame | Iron | 2,640 | 3,800 | 1,160 |
| Megumi Refueling to Dudley & Daughters | Aluminum | 2,584 | 3,800 | 1,216 |
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
1,352,949 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
- 03AshlandChawla's BeachSeer's CanyonAshland
LifeCure Medsticks, Atlasium, Audio-Visual Equipment
1,228,496 aUEC/h
51 min a loop, estimated
- 04Shepherd's RestRustvilleShepherd's Rest
Fresh Food, Organics
1,162,652 aUEC/h
34 min a loop, estimated
- 05GaslightAshlandChawla's BeachGaslight
Stims, LifeCure Medsticks, Scrap
1,153,436 aUEC/h
47 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
- Laranite8,319 to 9,084 aUEC+9.2%
- Kopion Horn32,333 to 34,857 aUEC+7.8%
- Audio-Visual Equipment35,824 to 36,324 aUEC+1.4%
Down
- Chlorine1,465 to 1,447 aUEC-1.2%
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.