Buy Green, sell red? Question about trading

[Kenny]

Hey guys, i wonder why i heard of the "Rule" to always buy goods which are highlighted green which seems legit, but then to care that it has to be red when u want to stell your stuff.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2841038126

The following picture shows me an quite example, that its actually not like that?! Which point am i missing? I would never sell my grapes for 11 because this is just above average as i can remember^^ Why is it still red?

Thx for help in advance

PS: Yes of course, i am seeing the rumours which gives me the advice where to sell it maybe. I am just confused about the colours.

[titanopteryx]

Well if you can identify some towns that have npc owned workshops that require resources not produced by the local villages, that's a good spot to sell the related good. The resource the workshop needs. Next, after a town is sieged you can sell food to the shop there for maximum price because the market is food starved from the siege. Next, buy horses from the desert and sell them in the north. next, later in the game the towns will have high prosperity which causes them to require lots of food. The villages can't produce enough most of the time. That's the best time to trade food outside of a post siege.

One tip is to buy a workshop or 2 in a town, convert them into workshops that require a resource not produced locally that you want to sell there, then sell the workshop, creating demand for that good.

[siricjr]

you buy when its green then you sell your stuff if its mark green on your side hope you not selling stuff on your side if its red

[Balekai]

What siricjr said:

- Buy stuff from merchant when its green.
- Sell stuff that you have when its green in your inventory.
- Never buy/sell stuff that's red when you can, unless you know a place that you can buy/sell it for more/less, or REALLY need it, depending on the situation. Still not a good idea.

[Kenny]

thank you very much =)