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Market Database
Elite Trader's trading tools run on a local SQLite database of every station market in the galaxy — the same open data Inara and Spansh use, living on your disk, updated in real time.
Database tab → Build Database (once):
- Downloads Spansh's daily galaxy dump (~4 GB, deleted after import).
- Imports every station market into
data/market.db— about 15 minutes, ~1.5 GB: 474k station markets, 36M prices. - Done. Rebuild any time from the same button.
Until you build it, trade routes fall back to the Spansh API (slower, still works).
While the app runs, it listens to EDDN — the community's live market relay. When any player anywhere docks at a station, your local prices update within seconds. This is what makes WATCH route alerts and the ▲/▼ price-trend arrows possible.
Markets you dock at are published to EDDN (the same way EDMC does), anonymously, keeping the network alive for everyone — including the players this app learns from. Opt out in Settings → Contribute market data.
Everything lives in one folder: data/ next to the app (or ET_DATA_DIR).
Delete market.db and rebuild if you ever want a clean slate. Your journal
history import (for analytics) is tracked in the same database and reimports
automatically when needed.