Join the Elite - Everything You Need to Know About Trading

On Thursday March 24, we're continuing our tutorial livestream series on the official Elite Dangerous channel. Join the Elite is a series that takes deep dives into various aspects of Elite Dangerous, explaining everything you need to know about a particular part of the game. The series is aimed at seasoned players, teaching a thing or two to even the most dedicated of Elite experts.

In future weeks we'll be covering the flight model, the Galaxy simulation, Powerplay and more. Join Edward Lewis and Elite Dangerous Head of Design, Laurence Oldham, in episode 3, as they show you everything you need to know about Trading.

Make sure you join us on our official YouTube channel at 19:00 GMT on Thursday March 24.

[Bjarki]

Elite was not made for simple minded people. It's a vast game, complex and is the closest you can get to a spaceship adventure simulation. I love the game, and I support it as much as I can, the game has so much more in store for us and I can't wait for this season of updates! Keep up with the good work, it's beautifully detailed and you guys are awesome.

[moverweel]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on trading. Good to hear you're thinking about improvements. Especially to differentiate between low and high security systems. Just.. don't forget to make 'high security' actually mean something for the health of us poor traders ;)

[bungholio]

Did they make these trade changes in 2.1, I can't seem to tell the difference so far? Are commodities worth more now depending on the system state?

[sacredbanana]

The problem with commodity trading is even all the newcomers to the game can afford all the commodities, whereas in the original Elite you couldn't buy much at all and you appreciated any profits you make.

[Hydrus]

I like these shows, but sometimes they get hard to watch. The "intern" sometimes has a hard time focusing on what he is doing and ALOT of time is wasted. These shows are good, but with a little more focus they would be great.

[TheGeezzer]

60 billion credits!! ..."Dev Creds" that you guys just typed in for ease.

[SirLithen]

Could you really not be bothered to cut out the three and a half minute "stream starts soon"?

[booyaman]

trades ARE CLOSING every two secounds. a.k.a. we dont wanta tell you guys anything about profit systems.

[morrgash]

Trading in ED is so boring and meaningless, the only time the trading system would mean something is if the only way to get certain materials or products is by the effort of the players and not the NPCs, right now it means absolotly nothing to move a certain commudity from point A to B because the commudity exists everywhere.