A lot of this is boring, having to spend a long time in trade chat, and some of this is luck, but this can make you millions of dollars easily from day 1.

1) Losing/"Slutting": Type in trade chat "selling loses 250k each pm me" essentially, you attack someone, and lose, they gain xp, and you gain 250k!!! NOTE: get a few morphine and LSD to be able to get out of hospital and do more loses = more money
There are discords such as BHG (bounty hunters guild) that can streamline this process

2) Bits&Bobs: There is a massive demand for beer, for the nerve it provides, and beer is limited, so go to bits&bobs, buy 100 beers for 1k, sell them at item market for 700-800 each = 70-80k profit NOTE: also works with most commodities, but beer is the best, make sure to check the item market to maximise profits, EG if the price of beer is only say 600, then you are making more money by waiting a few days for it to hit 700 again

3) Morphine: When you are in hospital, you cannot buy morphine, so buy morphine, go to trade/hospital chat, and sell the morphine, NOTE: when this was first posted morphine costed 17.5k at item market, i then sold some morphine at between 15-30k profit each

NOTE: All of the above are better sources of income than this, however they can fold at a moments notice, this is more dependable, and always provides a baseline cash to allow you to live a high quality lifestyle.

4) Jobs: A normal job at a player owned company, at the time that this was posted, would be 50k-100k a day, regardless of stats, that is great and all but there is a way to make more.

4B) Cans: Sweet shops have a special ability, that costs job points, that allows you to make an energy can, an energy can provides energy, but it is much more valuable in the item market, selling between 1.2-2mil (depending on prices and can) these can normally be made every two days, so you end up averaging 750k daily from this.

NOTE: if you need quick cash, go to trade chat, as you can sell cans there faster, but at slightly lower prices (50k-100k lower).

EDIT 02/09/15

4C) Cans Continued: At a sweet shop you can (potentially)get two cans in three days, however if you can find a 10* grocery store, you can get cans at a faster rate, as they cost 12 job points instead of 15, allowing 4 cans in 5 days

NOTE: Grocery stores have a higher working stat requirement, and are rarer than sweet shops, so it may take while to find one that you can join, and get cans from

EDIT: 14/06/15

NOTE: The above are relatively passive methods, what i am going to list below are active methods that require a greater activity

5) Trading: Whenever you go to the item market, and search for items with a high demand and supply (eg beers, bricks etc), the price is always changing, this method relies on the changes, for beers, they normally sell between 600-800 each, so you can buy beers at less than 700, to resell at 750, you are making money, potentially in bulk, relatively easily

5B) Improvements: Once you have traded enough cheap items, with slim margins, move on to more expensive items, as they still fluctuate, but as they are with larger numbers, you can make more money. you could also do cheap items in bulk, but this takes more time relative to profit

EDIT 20/08/15

6) Blood: Empty blood bags are bought for between 15 and 20 k (at time of posting), the cheapest blood available on the market is typically around $50k(depending on blood type), and the most expensive can spike to around 100k, this can mean 80k profit per blood bag, max of 8 blood bags a day (3hr medical cooldown per empty blood bag), so potentially 640k daily, if you time it right. To withdraw blood you need to get the education course "intravenous therapy" under biology.

NOTE: The required education takes weeks, so i would advise starting on this track very early on, and empty blood bags reduce your life by 20% so I would advise against using too many at once.

NOTE: the spikes are far and few between, so whilst 640k daily is possible, it is unlikely, but making an extra 200k/day is still very useful for new players

EDIT 03/11/06

7) Flying: As soon as you reach levelv 15 you unlock the travel agency, which allows you to fly to other countries. Every country sells unique goods, but the Cayman Islands and Switzerland offer banking and rehab respectively. Those goods are bought at cheap prices, and sold for substantially greater prices back in torn, however, most weapons have already flooded the markets, so there is little or no profit here and I would advise against flying those. Flowers and plushies always sell well, as do drugs as there is a high demand for them.

NOTE: This is only a brief overview for flying as there are more specialist guides out there, but I wanted to cover it as it has the potential to make millions per day. Also suitcases increase the items you can buy abroad, as can faction specials and a private island with an air strip.

EDIT 01/05/16

8) Points Trading: The principal here is the same to that of trading: buy low, sell high. However, points have a few limitations which make this market more fluid: they have multiple uses, you can only have 5 points listings at one time and there are no market fees. Because points are bought in bulk everyday, the profits per point are small (maybe $500 per point, given a point costs ~$65k), but because they are traded quickly this small profit can add up.

NOTE: Selling points in bulk means that you can end up with a large amount of cash on hand, making you a mugging target, potentially killing your profits, so I would advise selling points in batches of 5 until you have a better understanding of the market.

EDIT 05/04/17

9) Bounty Placing: Under the new bounty system, any given player can place a limit of ten bounties, however the top bounty placers often wish to place more than this, so offer up your ten bounty spaces with a small % fee for yourself.

NOTE: Certain bounty placers may bounty you for just talking to them, I advise you to mail them first and offer up your spaces before talking about making money for yourself.


if you have ANY questions about ANY of this feel free to chat me

ONE LAST THING: for new players, don't join a faction until level 15, as someone who didn't do that, you spend 90% of your time in hospital

 join a faction ASAP because the perks are crazy good and there are a million protections in place so you dont have to spend too long in hospital - the crossed out guidelines are from 10 ish years ago when torn was a very different place