After selling my discovery I’m left with about 45K and the Mercury. At this point I do some upgrading to my ship; Duplex scanner, some engine tuning, trading system extension. I leave myself with about 36K, you could probably buy more upgrades right away and trade other stuff, but I want to be able to buy a full load of energy cells. Note: In TC you have to go to the equipment docks for these upgrades.
Since I now have the Trading system extension I can quickly check prices without docking at a station. This will help a lot.
I see nothing is produced in argon Prime, so I decide to head towards Power Circle.
In Herron’s Nebula I find Ore for 50 and decide to go with that instead: I can sell it in the same sector for more than double the price. I keep distributing ore and energy to this and the surrrounding sectors for quite some time, and quickly get up to 100K.
Now it’s time for some more upgrades, I get the rest of the engine tuning and rudder optimization and head off to Home of light for the Best buys and best selling locators. These will speed up trading even more.
While in Home of light I buy some Cohonas, but not sure this was worth it. I made a good profit buy had to travel around to get rid of them. So, more or trading.
My goal now is to get to about half a milion before I decide what to do next.