idoma

thank you mr. LLM

I buy ~$2,000 of items per day from a handful of places (advertising, bots, listings, quicksells).

I sell _anything_ that I can buy at a reasonable margin, but that trends down towards a ~$50 average.

The market is incredibly small & illiquid - the main alpha comes from:

- a better knowledge & understanding of the market. What items are desirable? What will take a long time? How do you price them? etc.

- trust/reputation, which takes form through cash trading (directly buying items from people at a discount).

I also have a few automated trading bots & scripts that save time on buying items, but that's easily replicable.

Some CS, but TF2 is my main focus. Items are less liquid and the cash trading scene isn't as established. For example, my average margin on TF2 items is 6x higher than CS (~25% vs. ~4-5%). I'm able to buy for less & sell for more than I could in CS.

Knowledge about the game isn't necessary at all - it's just the market itself. Understanding what people are interested in, what items can sell at, how long they take, etc.