Best trade route as of now?

[Corey]

Im trying to get back into the game and the reason I stopped is because its not very easy to make a decent amount of credits, maybe for some but not for me, I dont really know what im looking for half the time and all these videos are from months ago nothing really updated, When I use to play which was before horizons came out and a little after trading was the best way to make credits, and it still might be? I am not sure, but if anyone can tell me a good trading route they are doing and what they are selling, I would be very thankful

[Mio Rin]

Sightseeing tours out of Robigo to Sirius Atmospherics is fairly consistent.
For general trading, you can check the new trading and commodity filters in the galaxy map.

[Liduska77]

You can go into the Commodity market and click on the box above the very top commodity listed.

From here, you can change the destination station to where you want to go and it will show you the profit on each appropriate commodity. This helps you to see at a glance the available profits and saves time and hoping you'll get a nice return.

Its worth playing about with the galaxy map, loads of info there now about markets and profits.

Good luck o7

[Agony_Aunt]

Best trade routes change all the time since the best routes are where you find two systems with states that accentuate profits between them. Like shipping food from an agricultural system in outbreak to a high tech or industrial in famine and then medicines back the other way.

But that requires a bit of work investigating systems for things like that. If you just want to know what is best and be told, then just use a tool like eddb.io and use the trade route finder.

[Mark Abrams]

EDDB.io
Check the trade route tool on this site.

[Straight White Male]

Become allied with a few factions in a system you like if you want to do missions.
If the missions suck, just see what they need and check prices.....no need to only run missions for credits.
https://eddb.io/trade/commodity
Imperial slaves can make you alot. :)

[Corey]

Although I am a high rank with the Imperial, I do want to get higher with the Federation, but my net worth currently is around 120-180 million credits, Most of that was from bounty hunting with my Fer De Lance, Back in the day I saw a YouTuber Kornelius who was the first person I saw reach nearly 15 Billion Credits, and that was from trading, I want to find out exactly what he did, Im on a trade route now that I found on EDDB but surely there has to be better if not, they so be it, I will farm it, What is considered a good amount of credits per hour? like better than average?

[Straight White Male]

If you are having a ton of fun doing imperial slave runs, and taking out those coming after you, you will make good cash while having fun.

Depending on the ship, you can make alot in one (cutter/T-9) run or good cash in a few runs using a small ship (cobra).

[Corey]

I just bought the T9 Heavy, I've been doing a loop route suggested by the site, Its good cash but I dont think its the quickest, I think its like 2-4 Mil per 12 jumps? I dont have a clue whats considered good, quick anymore, i've been out of the loop since they added the Engineers

[rfb]

The game gives you a choice of making credits slowly by trading and mining etc or getting very rich very quickly doing passenger runs from robigo mines. Dont know why they have included it in the game ... it seems crazy to me .... but if its just credits you want along with unlocking jameson memorial ... robigo is the way to go. Like I said ...... crazy.

[Straight White Male]

OH no, you can do better.
If you want to rank up with the feds, go to a system that has a bunch of fed factions.....Sol is great for this.
(do you have the permit?)
Only run missions/run cargo for fed factions.

[Sam Sann]

Well i just filter the whole galaxy around me in eddb, search for at least 4 stations very close and within an star system, then i see if they have material importation like Aluminium and so on.

I visit it and see if it need expensives materials, then i search where i can find those and if it's close enough, i start to do lame missions and do some donnations until i get Allied with then.

After all of that, they will start to give very good trading missions, last week i got many missions worth 30~50Mil Cr.
The profit is about 12~26Mil on those, but i keep getting the 5~10Mil little trade missions and i profit about 100Mil/hour.

Oh right, cargo space is a must in this case, so go on Truck-9 or Cutter.

Be in Elite Trading is kinda required, but doing such missions will increase your rank pretty quickly.

I didn't go do Sightseeing tours because i think is lame....but i do like to visit many stations and systems, so i'll keeping doing as i i'm doing until i can't profit 100Mil/h anymore.

[bbfloyd]

Be warned, lucrative trade missions, and frankly, any amount of cargo, seems to draw an absurdly high amount of interdiction. You can make money, but be prepared to drop some cargo, or fly a serious combat trader. You will see more pirates than you will RES hunting.

I did make money with my personal week long Lakon T9 experiment, but I got silly tired of the interdiction mini game, and depressed by the amount of cargo dumped, number of rebuys, and panic jumping I had to do. It is not fun very quickly.

The new galaxy map trade information is AWESOME. But missions are where the real money is. Sit in an agriculture system in boom state by a famine system - get allied reputation, then make bank stacking famine relief missions. Or sit in an industrial station and make bank sourcing and returning high tech or refined metals for them.

Passengers and shortrange sightseeing or transport are lucrative, and don't have the silly interdiction rate trading has right now. I use an ASP Explorer with a single large cabin and 50ly+ jump range for sightseeing loops with stops under 300 ly from start, or I'll use a python with three size 6 first or business class cabins and do high headcount passenger transport runs. Much safer than trading, just as lucrative. You get great exploration rank from sightseeing too.

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Sothis and ceos data missions. Robigo passenger missions to sirius atmospherics

[Indal]

Parutis Passenger missions towards the system 36 Opiuchi or something like that, give me 10-16 mil per passenger some of them might need to take them fast since they ask to be there in line 1h 20 mins and the trip is around 50 mil.

[ZombieHunter]

Go to eddb.io. Look for best routes there. You can sort by profit.