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This tool identifies EVE Online market items that are profitable to buy on the market and reprocess into raw minerals/materials, which are then sold. It factors in your character’s skills, standings, and brokerage fees to give you accurate per-item profit estimates.

Step 1 — Authenticate a Character

Before using the tool, at least one EVE Online character must be authenticated via the Connect with EVE Online button on the character profile page. Your character’s Scrapmetal Processing skill level, standings, and fees are used to calculate accurate reprocessing yields and tax rates.

Step 2 — Pricing Options

• Sell To: Whether to sell the reprocessed materials to Buy Orders (instant sale) or via Sell Orders (you list them; sales tax and broker fee apply). Sell Orders are usually more profitable but require patience.
• Minimum Daily Volume: Filters out items with very low trade activity. Higher volume means easier buying and selling.
• Stack Size: How many of an item you intend to buy and reprocess in one batch. Note: items have a portion size (the minimum reprocessable quantity). For example, ammunition has a portion size of 100, so a stack size of 100 represents exactly 1 reprocessing batch (100 physical items). A stack of 1000 = 10 batches of 100 ammo each. Profit is calculated per physical item based on whole batches; any remainder below a full portion size is discarded.
• Minimum / Maximum Margin %: Only items within this profit margin range will appear. Margin is calculated as ((Reprocess Value − Buy Cost) / Buy Cost) × 100.

Step 3 — Filter Options

• Trade Hub: The market station to pull buy prices from (e.g. Jita 4-4).
• Trader: The character whose skills & standings determine your reprocessing yield and tax. Characters are sorted by most favourable first. The format shown is: Name (RTax: X% | NPC BFee: Y%), where RTax is the reprocessing tax and NPC BFee is the standings-derived brokerage fee.
• Filter Market Group: The category of items to scan (e.g. Ship Equipment, Drones).
• Exclude Capital-Sized?: When set to Yes, filters out capital-sized modules, ship hulls, and fighters — these typically require specialist buyers and large capital to process.
• Meta Only?: When set to Yes, only shows Meta tier items (faction-originated T1 items dropped by NPCs). These are often the most reprocessing-profitable since they are bought cheaply but yield the same minerals as T1 originals.

Step 4 — Advanced Options

• Buy Order QTY Recommendation?: When set to Yes, the displayed quantity in the item list is scaled to the % of Daily Volume you set, giving you a recommended buy order size. The quantity will always show a minimum of 1.
• % of Daily Volume: Only active when Buy Order QTY is enabled. Sets what fraction of average daily volume to recommend (e.g. 10% means buy up to 10% of daily traded volume).
• Re-list Brokerage Fees?: When set to Yes, the tool factors in the cost of modifying your buy orders a set number of times. Each update costs a fraction of the broker fee.
• Order Updates: Only active when Re-list is enabled. Enter how many times you expect to update each buy order before it fills.
• Override Brokerage Fee?: Allows you to override the standings-derived brokerage fee for the buy side, sell side, or both. Useful when placing buy orders in an Upwell structure (which has a fixed fee regardless of standings) while selling minerals at an NPC station using your standings rate, or vice versa.
  • No — use your character’s standings-derived fee for both buying and selling.
  • Buy Fee — custom fee applies to buying modules; standings fee applies to selling minerals.
  • Sell Fee — standings fee applies to buying modules; custom fee applies to selling minerals.
  • Buy & Sell Fee — custom fee applies to both sides.
• Brokerage Fee %: Only active when an override mode is selected. The custom fee to apply. Note: when overriding the buy side, a minimum fee of 100 ISK per item is enforced (Upwell market behaviour).

Step 5 — Reading the Results

After clicking Generate List, results appear below. The green summary box shows the Potential Daily Profit along with the age of the price data used.

Each line in the item list reads:

Item Name  [ Buy Price  /  Reprocess Value  /  Qty  /  Margin% ]

• Buy Price: The highest current buy order for that item at the selected hub (ISK per item).
• Reprocess Value: Estimated ISK returned per item after reprocessing, applying your skill yield, reprocessing tax, sales tax, and broker fees.
• Qty: The regional 30-day average volume for that item, or the set percentage of that volume if Buy Order QTY Recommendation is set to Yes.
• Margin%: Profit margin as a percentage of the total buy cost including broker fee.

Step 6 — Market Quickbar

After the list is generated, the button changes to Generate Market Quickbar. Clicking it copies a formatted list to your clipboard that can be pasted directly into the EVE Online Market Quickbar. Open the Market window in-game, click the Quickbar import icon, and paste.

Each line in the quickbar list reads:

- Item Name  [ Reprocess Value  /  Qty  /  Margin% ]

Note: the note field is capped at 25 characters to fit EVE’s quickbar note limit, so values may be truncated on high-margin items.

Tips

• Price data is fetched periodically — check the Oldest price data timestamp (shown in EVE Time / UTC) to know how fresh your results are.
• High-volume items with moderate margins (>5%) are usually more consistently profitable than low-volume high-margin items.
• Meta modules from NPCs (i.e. modules which cannot be manufactured / do not have a blueprint) are often excellent reprocessing targets.
• Changing any setting automatically clears the results — simply click the button again to regenerate with the updated parameters.