Yes it is always the case - you have to be the oracle, or one lucky bugger to time trades perfectly.
As long as the buys are small and you are not spending food money I would not worry. Your votes are getting bigger = more curation rewards sooner rather than later, and hopefully one of these buys will be around the low for the year - that will be a satisfying one :)
That is what I'm counting on @abh12345.
I haven't paid attention to curation rewards since my Steem Power was too lower. Now I'm building it do you think it might be worth focussing on it a bit or are we still talking very tiny amounts?
Or, better still, at what SP do you think it's worth paying attention?
Ta! 😊
Well you are coming up to 2k SP, so it is worth paying a bit more attention I guess. If you have authors you regularly want to support then your curation rewards will likely increase if you use something like steemauto.com to schedule a vote in the first 20 minutes or so.
In the last 7 days you got .66 SP via curation rewards, i think you could double that with some timed voting.
OK. Thanks Asher. It's useful to know the numbers and food for thought.
I didn't know it was good to vote in the first twenty minutes. I thought it was better at 28+ to 30.
But as I say I've just been voting when I've seen the posts which sometimes might be a day later. 😱
Depends on the author/post value. Best to get in earlier on posts that have a good payout.
The 20/30 cent posts you can go for 25-30 on. A day later than creation will likely mean few people are voting after you - not great for curation rewards :)
That's helpful. Thanks.
Is it the same with comments?
I would wait 30 mins to upvote a comment, as it is unlikely there will be any other votes prior to you most of the time.
After HF 20 these timings will be halved :D
Now I remember why I haven't bothered with it in the past. Life's too short. 😂