Trading colors, what do they mean?

[Apocalyps]

The answer seems more difficult to find than it should. What do the red, yellow and green colors mean for the various commodities?

[Oluja]

Red = not worth to buy (expensive), or not worth to sell (to cheap)
Yellow = average
Green = Good to sell (good deal), good to buy (very cheap)

[Apocalyps]

Awesome, thank you!

[Karlito]

It has to do with the best buy/sell prices.
When you're buying or selling items, green means you're getting a better price considering the average prices on other stations that you know of - yellow means it's about the same as average and red naturally means that the price is worse than the average.

TLDR - follow the green color when buying/selling ! :)

EDIT:
Oluja beat me to it! thanks :)

[Zenoslaf]

Buy low, sell high.
And watch Wolf of Wall Street before engaging in real trading career. :D Hehe...

[Apocalyps]

Wow, incredibly fast dev response. Thank you

[Zenoslaf]

You'll get much of it here... Usually devs beat players to answering questions... :)

Welcome and enjoy the ride, captain. :)

[Holy Sock]

Came searching for this and also found a Dev quote from April:
"A Best Buy/Sell overview panel is planned. It will include only prices on stations/planets that you've visited, though. Freelancer style ;)."

This would be ideal, but I can't find one, did it not make it in? The current system is ok for ad-hoc selling but you cant really organise a trade run without keeping records of each location's buy/sell rates.

[probe]

Originally posted by Holy Sock:

Came searching for this and also found a Dev quote from April:
"A Best Buy/Sell overview panel is planned. It will include only prices on stations/planets that you've visited, though. Freelancer style ;)."

This would be ideal, but I can't find one, did it not make it in? The current system is ok for ad-hoc selling but you cant really organise a trade run without keeping records of each location's buy/sell rates.

I think it's on the wishlist and will be implemented as soon as LGM finish killing most gamebreaking bugs. Be patient and I'm sure you'll see it within a few weeks or so.

[MeepdragonVII]

Howdy, Holy Sock!

The overview panel can be found in the Starmap (M); there in the circular menu you'll find a tab for it. It gives you the buy/sell prices of commodities for the stations & planets you've already visited.

[probe]

Originally posted by MeepdragonVII:

Howdy, Holy Sock!

The overview panel can be found in the Starmap (M); there in the circular menu you'll find a tab for it. It gives you the buy/sell prices of commodities for the stations & planets you've already visited.

Ups...My bad. It's already there. Thx a bunch MeepdragonVII :-)

[Holy Sock]

Originally posted by MeepdragonVII:

Howdy, Holy Sock!

The overview panel can be found in the Starmap (M); there in the circular menu you'll find a tab for it. It gives you the buy/sell prices of commodities for the stations & planets you've already visited.

Thanks Meep :)

[MeepdragonVII]

My, it's nice to see new Captains meep correctly.

I'm so proud of you!

I'll have to start a trader playthrough soon too and check how trading has developed lately.

[Asane]

I spent 6 hours buying green and selling red, not knowing the price color changed based on buy/sale and constantly forgetting what I'd bought products at :(

[Xam Huad]

I was searching Steam for the answer to this question too.

Would be nice if Tutorial had an info tab on this mechanic, or an elaboration of the colors on hover-over the colored price.

[MeepdragonVII]

Originally posted by X4MHD:

I was searching Steam for the answer to this question too.

Would be nice if Tutorial had an info tab on this mechanic, or an elaboration of the colors on hover-over the colored price.

You're right, that would be nice.
Unfortunately this is one of the newest features and the Tutorials are a "bit" older already.