Automated trading ships?

[Kaeltheras]

You don’t need a 3 star pilot. Get a ship, select it and then right click on empty space. There should be an option for auto-trade (galaxy). I’ve got 3 traders running now and they generate a decent amount of cash though you need a bit of a cash reserve to make it work smoothly.

My traders are constantly losing ~10-30kcr with every trade, both on galaxy trader and sector trader, any ideas?

Edit: Specifically, they won't leave the sector they start in and I've lost about ~220kcr since I've started them

I have the same problem as well... And I also have satellites everywhere but they do not seem to update price *puzzled*

The star rating + having sats around stations will help you in this regard!

on those who are having the issues with trader not leaving system go to info and check their command queue. Something else might be stopping them (like default behavior) or something. maybe cancel out and restart the tradeing.

[Kaeltheras]

Also for tips: (?)
Miners... gas miners really really make money, but silicone (at least in my umm generated game) is printing me 20k+ (SI) and 108k+ every time they fill up their holds. put them bad boys on auto-mining and funnel those funds wherever you want!
Im sitting at 20 mil total in the last few hoursish.

[fcth]

Also, check out the global settings and tailor them to what you want them to do.

Dumb question, but where are these? I see the ship specific ones defaulting to global settings, but I don't see where to actually change the global ones?

[Orthanc]

The star rating + having sats around stations will help you in this regard!

on those who are having the issues with trader not leaving system go to info and check their command queue. Something else might be stopping them (like default behavior) or something. maybe cancel out and restart the tradeing.

No other orders given. I had checked that a couple times. I right click space, select Auto-Trade (Galaxy) and still no dice. Trader rather ferries 10 Energy Cells around all day than to leave the system And as I stated earlier I have satted virtually every station I can see. Captain has 4 stars.

Really really annoying. An excercise in futility right now.