General Strategy - Your goal is to buy stuff cheaply and resell it for a profit. Good knowledge of Item prices and quite high initial investment are necessary to do this. First of all, you have to find out what items are most popular at the moment and what pieces of gear are regarded as the best, and therefore most searched for. Then, you have to analyze the prices of those most wanted items in order to make a profit out of reselling them. It is better to start slowly, and get the grasp of the Trading Post over time, than rushing your purchases, and getting stuck with too many items, that will potentially make you a profit, but are not in a high demand; research never ends when Flipping The Trading post, always collect new information, and do not risk if you don’t know the approximate odds of making high (and fast) profit. A word of warning: Trading Post behaves like a living creature, it responds to player needs, and prices are very fluid because of that; this could lead to increased profits or to a great loss of money.

1. Be patient! Posting up items costs a fee, so reposting your auctions will consume quite a bit of your hard-earned money. Sometimes it is better to wait a bit, before deciding to re-post.
2. Don’t panic! Market prices tend to fluctuate (monthly, weekly or even daily); if you bought something for 25 silver each, and now it is worth 24, wait – there is a good chance that price will go back up in the foreseeable future (just let the Demand-Supply correlation work its magic).
3. Don’t flood the Trading Post with all your items of a said type, store some of them instead and post them up gradually as they get sold out; this will let you save substantial amounts of money on auction fees over time.
4. Use Trading Post tools and statistics provided by specialized Guild Wars 2 Trading Post related websites (for example the gw2spidy, and the gw2bltc). They will provide you with a lot of precious information, which in turn will increase your profits.
5. Take notes of what sells well and what doesn’t, and focus on the most demanded items.

1. If you don’t know the Meta Rotation, just follow the Group Commander.
2. Learn the boss fights to avoid unpleasant surprises.
3. Don’t forget to bring extra Keys (they also drop during Meta Events, but you may get too few) in order to open all chests.
4. Do the Tangled Labyrinth (the entrance is located at the Hidden Depths Waypoint) during the timeouts, this will earn you some extra loot (the chest at the end of the Labyrinth requires the Key of Greater Nightmares, and you can open it multiple times as long as you have keys for it, so clear out your bag space if you have collected a lot of them); if you have problems completing it, just ask for help in the chat, someone will respond for sure.

1. After you have finished all Metas available on your current map, and there is nothing else to do, try to swap Instances (you can do it by Joining and leaving a PvP lobby or by reclogging for example) to find a fresh map with Meta events still happening. This will allow you to avoid Downtime when farming, and in turn, increase your money gained per hour.
2. Don’t fall behind; follow your Group Commander to not miss out on anything. Mobile classes, like Druids, are preferable for farming.
3. Don’t salvage unidentified gear that you have looted, just sell it on the Trading Post for more profit.

1. You can buy 30 Deeply Discounted Fractal Encryption Keys per day from the BUY-4373. Do it, as those are needed to open Fractal Encryptions.
2. You can check the corresponding Fractal completion guides in order to get in grips with the encounter mechanics, and tactics in general.
3. Run the challenge mode while in a strong group, as it will earn you bonus rewards.
4. Invest in the Recursive Resourcing mastery, as it will grant you bonus rewards from opening Fractal Encryptions.

END NOTE

Guild Wars 2 provides its players with lots of opportunities that could result in gold added to your pocket, and it is up to you to seize them. Activities described above are just a small portion of the possibilities that the game presents when it comes to Gold earning. Please remember that the most important thing is to have fun while playing, so if you get bored or exhausted while farming just take a break, or you will get burned out.

Please do note that this is an early version of our guide, and we will be happy to receive constructive criticism, that will help us improve it, so leave your suggestions in the comments section below. We also plan to add further Money-making activities to the list in the foreseeable future, so stay tuned.