Market
Market is EVE Mercator's main terminal: a single table of every liquid item across the five EVE Online trade hubs (Jita IV-Moon 4, Amarr, Dodixie, Rens, Hek). It is not a list of recommendations but a snapshot of the market as-is: each row is an item, each column a metric computed on live ESI data. The default sort is by turnover; you can filter by margin, volatility, turnover and days of inventory, search by name and open an item card with a click.
The table's core idea is to show profit net of fees rather than the raw spread. Sales tax is about 7.5% at Accounting 0 (CCP cut it from 8% in a March 2025 patch) and about 3.4% at Accounting V; the broker fee is about 3% at Broker Relations 0, about 1.5% at V and toward a floor near 1% with standings. So the "Margin" column is computed on bare fees, as if you had no trade skills: on base skills a full cycle breaks even at roughly a 14–15% spread, while a trained trader needs about 7%. After logging in via the official EVE SSO, "My margin" appears — recomputed from your real skills and standings, usually higher than the public figure.
The remaining columns give liquidity and risk context: fair value is the VWAP over region-wide ESI history (up to 90 days), and "vs fair" shows whether an item is cheap or expensive against that anchor; daily turnover and volume measure liquidity; volatility, competition, churn, refill, persistence and days of inventory describe how deep and stable the order book is. EVE Mercator uses the official ESI API and is not affiliated with Fenris Creations; EVE Online and all related material are property of Fenris Creations.
- Buy
- Best buy price — the top buy order in the selected hub.
- Sell
- Best sell price — the top sell order in the selected hub.
- Spread
- Sell − buy gap as a % of the mid price, before fees.
- Margin
- Margin net of fees with NO trade skills (~7.5% tax + ~3% broker), %. A deliberately conservative lower bound.
- My margin
- Margin with your real fees (skills and standings) after login — usually higher than the public one.
- ISK/day
- Realistic daily profit — accounts for market depth and trade flow, not a single ideal fill.
- vs fair
- Price relative to fair value (≤ 0 = cheap, > 0 = expensive).
- Volatility
- Daily price volatility, % — the higher, the riskier.
- Turnover/day
- Average daily ISK turnover over 30 days — a liquidity measure.
- Volume/day
- Average daily traded volume, units.
- Competition
- Number of orders in the band near the best price, separately for buy and sell.
- Churn
- How often the best order changes per hour — trading intensity.
- Refill
- Minutes to refill market depth after it is eaten.
- Persistence
- Share of time with a stably wide spread — how reliable the opportunity is.
- Days inventory
- How many days of turnover the current market depth covers.
- Fair value
- Fair value — VWAP over region-wide ESI history (up to 90 days).