Every product has TWO markets - don't make my beginner mistake

Ciao! Let me save you the confusion that cost me money in my first weeks. When you go to sell something, you think there is one market for it, one price. There is not. Every single product trades on TWO separate markets, and they have different prices. I was selling on one without realizing the other existed, and yes, sometimes the other one was better. Here is the picture I use, and of course it is about food. Imagine the same bread sold at two markets in two different towns. The little market on your own street, where your neighbours shop with the cash in their pockets, has no reason at all to match the price at some big international fair in a faraway city. Each crowd sets its own price, in its own money. That is exactly your Local market and your Global market. Not two views of one price - two genuinely separate markets that happen to sell the same goods. The Local market is priced in your country's own currency, and only citizens of your country can see it. This is your home square. Your neighbours, your money, the things your country has plenty of or is short on. For most of what you buy and sell at the start, this is where you will live. It is friendly and close. The Global market is priced in gold, the premium currency, and it is open to everyone in the game, any country. This is the grand international exchange - a player on the other side of the world can buy from you and you from them. More powerful, but a bigger pond, and everything is in gold instead of your local cash. You do not have to hunt for them. On every product page there is a tab at the top that flips between the two. One click. And here is the nice part - you are not choosing a side forever. You can buy your wood cheap on local this morning and sell your finished planks on global this afternoon, just because that is where the better deal was. The tab is free and instant. Two windows onto the same product, both always open. Why do the prices drift apart? Because they are two separate books, with their own buyers and sellers. Supply and demand does its quiet work on each one. A good is usually cheaper where it is plentiful and dearer where it is scarce, so the two prices rarely line up. Spotting those gaps - buy where it is cheap, sell where it is dear - is one of the small pleasures of trading well. One practical detail. The smallest price you can set is different on each. On local you can go down to 0.0001 in your currency. On global you can go all the way to 0.000001 in gold - six zeros, four more than local. Why? Because one unit of gold is worth so much more than one unit of local cash, so you need finer steps. If the game nudges your price to a slightly bigger number, that minimum is why. And if you want to trade globally but only hold local cash, or the reverse, there is a currency exchange on your Home dashboard that swaps gold and local currency at the day's rate. So you are never stuck. Buon trading!