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-<html><head><title>Website documentation - YARRG</title>
+<html lang="en"><head><title>Website documentation - YARRG</title>
</head><body>
<a href="lookup">YARRG</a> -
and select `Update' to get a new plan. The unticked trades will be
excluded from the voyage plan (if any) and also from the totals.
-<h3>Vessel capacity</h3>
+<h3><a name="capacity">Vessel capacity</a></h3>
If you don't specify a vessel or a vessel capacity, the trading plan
will not take into account the fact that your voyage will be on a ship
abbrevation instead. If the first term specifies only one of mass or
volume, all the subsequent terms may only adjust that same value.
-<h3>Expected losses</h3>
+<h3><a name="losses">Expected losses</a></h3>
In theory if you were guaranteed to have a trouble-free voyage it
would be worth trading goods at very low margins. However, in
fraction 1/<em>divisor</em>, eg 1/200 is the same as 0.5%; in each
case it is taken as the loss for each league of the voyage.
+<h3><a name="capital">Available capital</a></h3>
+
+If you don't specify the amount of capital you have available to
+invest in the voyage, the trading plan will assume that your capital
+is unlimited. If you specify an amount in PoE here, the trading plan
+will never require you to spend more than that amount on commodities.
+
+<p>
+
+The trading plan does not take into account accumulated profits from
+each leg of the journey when applying the available capital
+constraint. For example, if you specify a journey from A to B to C
+and a capital limit of 10000 PoE, the trading plan will not tell you
+to buy 1000 peas at A for 10 PoE each, sail them to B and sell all of
+them for 20 PoE each, and then buy 2000 beans at B for 10 PoE each and
+sail them to C to sell for 20 PoE each even if such a trade would in
+fact be possible. In practice this is unlikely to be a problem!
+
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