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  • A multi-purpose menu offering a variety of ways to find particular offers.
  • Presents all known offers (your property; NPC property you've visited recently, or with Trade Agents on).
  • Able to view all sale offers, or all purchase offers.
  • A broad-ranging text filter allows you to focus on, for example, object names, zones or wares.
  • Available directly, or via a station or CV's Detail Menu (in order to quickly see offers just for that station/CV).
  • Possible trades can be ordered in various ways, such as by 'price per unit as % difference from mean price per unit'.

Trade Deals menu (shift+Y)

  • The Rebirth v4.00 counterpart to the Trade Offers menu, which introduced in Rebirth v4.00, streamlines regular trading.
  • Only presents deals (where player knows a matched sale and purchase).
  • Incorporates a cargo hold filter, like blackmilan's mod, that restricts presented deals to those the selected ship can carry.
  • Possible deals can be ordered by distance, investment or profit.
  • For deals involving wares on player-owned stations, the sale price is displayed in the Profit column.
    • When ordering the menu by Profit, an estimate for player-owned wares is used (probably sale price vs average price).

 

Useful info from elsewhere on the web:

  • NPC ships and Trade Reservation have been explanation by Burnit! (linkOct 01, 2015).
  • Station Match Finder, for matching ware production and needs by EuRoKa (linkNov 10, 2014).
  • Station building guide by Simoom (linkFeb 18, 2014).

 

Useful info from elsewhere on the web: 

  • There's an interesting thread here about how trades are currently (v3.61/v4.00b) worked out, & why your station may stop trading for a time, with Dev comments/clarifications.

Personal trading via Skunk

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