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Spain should always look to Genoa as an eventual home trade node. Assuming you control Naples, Sicily, and North Africa you can send tons of mediterranean trade there. Everything you colonize or conquer from Central and South America, Africa, the Far East, Sevilla, and Italy will wind up there. This is about as no brainier as it gets. Until you can control Genoa collect in Sevilla, but move your home trade node asap.
 
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My biggest concern is that while I have my main node in Sevilla, all my trade power in Aragon goes to waste, because although I mostly dominate the Aragon node provinces, its riches get transfered to Genoa because I collect earlier in Sevilla. Should I also send a spare merchant to collect in Aragon as a secondary node?
 

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Should I also send a spare merchant to collect in Aragon as a secondary node?

The reason why people often advise against collecting outside your home node is because it applies a negative, multiplicative modifier to your trade power in all the nodes you collect in. However, if you have 100% of the trade power in Sevilla, that modifier will have no consequences.

Bottom line : if you have 100% (or even 90%) of Sevilla, collecting in Valencia as well should be profitable. If you only have something like 70% of Sevilla, collecting in Valencia is likely to be a net loss.

Best thing you can do is check for yourself. Just send a merchant to collect in Valencia and observe how your trade income changes over the month tick.
 
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My biggest concern is that while I have my main node in Sevilla, all my trade power in Aragon goes to waste, because although I mostly dominate the Aragon node provinces, its riches get transfered to Genoa because I collect earlier in Sevilla. Should I also send a spare merchant to collect in Aragon as a secondary node?
Once you've got all of aragon, presumably via forming Spain via decision yeh move it to Aragon. However tech 10 is late enough to have taken most of genoa by that point
 

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My biggest concern is that while I have my main node in Sevilla, all my trade power in Aragon goes to waste, because although I mostly dominate the Aragon node provinces, its riches get transfered to Genoa because I collect earlier in Sevilla. Should I also send a spare merchant to collect in Aragon as a secondary node?

Put a merchant there and see what happens. If you make more money, leave it. If you make less, put it back where it came from.

If you are worried about losing income for a month, make a backup save first.
 
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My biggest concern is that while I have my main node in Sevilla, all my trade power in Aragon goes to waste, because although I mostly dominate the Aragon node provinces, its riches get transfered to Genoa because I collect earlier in Sevilla. Should I also send a spare merchant to collect in Aragon as a secondary node?

The best thing to do is not integrate Aragon until you max out the amount of territories they can hold. Pick off Italian minors you have claims on, managing AE, and give those lands to Aragon. Use Aragon's claims on Provence and give them that whole state. They then get claims on the French land west of Provence. Doing this, you use little to no diplo points in taking land you don't have claims on, and you spend no points stating that land after integration. I'm typically somewhere around admin tech 12 when I form Spain. Then I immediately move the home node to Genoa because I have more than 70% trade power there and I collect roughly 100 ducats per month in the mid-1500s.
 
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"You should conquer an end node" is never a valid advice. Generally it's never a good idea to collect in any node other than home because of the bonus on trade power in main node you get from every merchant transferring trade (that's anywhere in the world, upstream or downstream). Of course, a lot depends on the numbers.
You can move your home node to the end node if you have the correct DLC.
 
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