I'm with you Ura. Have always preferred SBD's because they have more utility. Let's hope this is an end to the "SBD's should rest at one US dollar nonsense." There's tether for that
My strategy now is to always hold some of the eight coins I've traditionally invested in. Because as you say it's impossible to predict buying groups and when someone is going to pump a coin, so if you hold some stock of the coins you like and don't worry about it, then in a week, or two or three when it gets pumped you get the enjoyment of making a 50% or 100% return, albeit on a smaller holding.
I find whenever I just hold or try and trade one or two Alt Coins, panic mode starts to set in and I feel like I need to trade when often I don't.
I don't see SBD as having more utility than steem, why do you think they do?