Beginning Inventory: 1 scrap

Ending Inventory: ~4.95 ref (in metal and weapons)

Trades Made: 37

Total Trades Made: 37

Series intro here: https://scrap.tf/raffles/ED7GN5

Full of enthusiasm and not yet afflicted by PTSD from last time, I did a lot of trading today to try to get off on the right foot. I began by conducting a search on backpack.tf to identify collectors buying unique weapons above market price. Fortunately, someone is (as of today) buying unique Vaccinators through an instant trading bot for a whole 2 (!) scrap each, which is perfect for our purposes. 90% of today's profit came from buying Vaccinators on various sites and reselling them to the bot. I also bought and resold a couple of non-craftable weapons today, such as a non-craftable Sticky Jumper which I bought for .5 scrap and resold for 1.

Finally, I also identified someone buying Jags for 1 scrap, although they didn't have a trading bot set up. I bought a total of 18 Jags to sell to them and sent in a trade offer, so hopefully by tomorrow the 18 Jags you can see in the inventory screenshot will have been converted into 2 ref. 

While the scrapbanking part of this challenge is always the slowest, I'm satisfied with today's progress. I only made 5 ref today, but on the other hand our inventory underwent a ~4350% increase in value (I think?), which is pretty remarkable if you think about it. Tomorrow I plan to continue buying Vaccinators and other flippable weapons if possible, but I may also branch out to whatever other strategies I can come up with (please give me suggestions for low tier trading, I forgot all my strats from last year).