You lucky you've learnt to sit still from watching others lose their money. I have learn to glue my bum to the chair, and sit still by the loses I experienced. I lost so much money and decided I had to leave the trading to the chart cowboys riders (learnt that from you)
I believe SMTs will succeed so well because the steem block chain is not new to tokens. Let's not forget that Steemit already has the "Pocket" tokens that were created by the great @Biophil. They seem to be working great! and are doing fine. @pocketbook has found all kinds of fun uses for this token. So I say the future for Steemit tokens is bright!
Let's just wait too see how things unfold in 2018