Autotrader is a simplified version of EVE Trader. Below is a step-by-step guide on how to utilize this bot effectively.

1) Ensure that your character possesses a minimum of 6 billion ISK docked in a trade hub such as Jita IV - Moon 4 - Caldari Navy Assembly Plant. Insufficient ISK may hinder your ability to cover Omega costs from bot profits, especially if your trader is still in the process of leveling trade skills. Remove any unwanted items from the station inventory, repair and repackage damaged items intended for sale, and stack items before exiting EVE

2) Select the AutoTrader algorithm as depicted in the provided image, and proceed with the first run

3) Access the settings panel and click on 'create history file,' allowing for the process to complete (which may take up to 30 minutes):

4) Transactions must take place in Jita IV - Moon 4 - Caldari Navy Assembly Plant.

5) Specify the broker's fee and sales tax, using information obtained from the sell order installation window when creating non-instant duration orders.

6) Determine the maximum number of orders to be utilized, ensuring it does not exceed the available order slots, which can be viewed in the 'my orders' window at the bottom in game client.

7) Activate trading items or ships by ticking 'Sell Items' and/or 'Sell Ships.' Opt for 'Bulk Seller' if your intention is to solely sell existing stock without purchasing new items; however, the bulk seller feature will continue updating current buy orders. Bot will only install buy orders if you have enough items with total price > 10 millions. Enable bulk seller mode if you wish to sell all items without a total order price check.

8) 'Order Installation Interval (minutes)' used to skip order creation stage when no new orders is necessary to install. Order installation procedure takes time (up to 30 minutes, depending on your internet connection speed). The more frequently you ask bot to install new orders, the less time bot spend to update existing orders. Use 30 minutes when you have no orders or if total worktime per start is less then 3 hours to install orders twice per start.

9) Adjust the 'Buy Order Duration' to modify the duration of buy orders, as sell order durations remain fixed at 90 days.

10) Bot will split existng ISKs between available order slots to calculate how much items to buy. If you dont want to spend all ISKs or want to test bot and cancel orders later you can reduce max funds per buy order value. If your ISK balance is lower than recommended, reduce buy order sizes to accommodate more orders.

11) Define a 'Free ISK Reserve' to have extra ISK for inter-character transfers. Make sure you have enough sell orders or items in inventory to reach this value before activating. Bot will not install new buy orders if your ISK balance is lower then this value.

12) To exclude trading of SKINS and BOOSTERS due to their price volatility and infrequent usage, tick the 'Exclude SKINS and BOOSTERS' box as desired.

There are two frequent questions worth to answer in the manual:

• Q1: Autotrader does not sell items that have already been purchased. At least not all the ones he's already bought. Why is that?
  
  A1: Autotrader will not install very small orders. If bot purchased 99/100 items and sold, remaining order 1/100 still present and may finally get one piece of item purchased. If price for the item less then 5m bot will skip it. You can temporary activate bulk seller mode and bot will sell all items it can.
  A2: Bot will not install sell orders if selling to buy order is more profitable. Sometimes price goes up or down. Profit of buy/resell operation can go to zero at some stage. Traders do not install new buy or sell orders while profit restored, despite if traders do one side order.
  A3: Bot cannot install sell order because current price lower then minimal sell order price for the item. Bot will slowly adjust minimal sell order price. This normally happen when you just start using autotrader. A few days may be spent to auto adjust limiting prices to avoid price manipulations from players.
  A4: Bot cannot calculate profit at all if buy or sell orders disappeared. This is worst situation. Bot will wait while somebody install buy/sell orders to this position.
  
  
• Q2: Why autotrader does not update my order? There is big margin and I don't care about relist fee
  
  A1: Bot works on first come first serve basis. If older order present then your order and this older order is not abandoned (updated less then 12h ago) bot will not outbid it.
  A2: Orders has update count and if this update count increase update intervals also increase.
  A3: Bot may not outbid order because it is too small
  A4: Profit for the item dropped. Minimal profit to update buy order is 5%, and to update sell order is 1%