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You might buy at 0.95-97 when the market price was around there. Based on my observation, you are not using fixed rate, but bidding on little lower than ticker prices, and this is what I meant passive.
I am glad to see @riverhead bought up SBD to $0.87 few hours ago. (Bravo man) This is what I want to do and see from witnesses.
First of all I do not bid lower than ticker prices necessarily; sometimes I bid above them. I bid as high as I deem necessary to accomplish the task most efficiently. I don't consider paying higher to be useful; you are probably buying coins from traders (mostly bots) which buy them lower and then resell them to you at a higher price. This enriches them and depletes your own capital. If you think your capital is being used to help the system broadly (and I seriously doubt the same could be said for profiteering exchange bots), then this is could end up being harmful overall (or less helpful).
But as I said, everyone should allocate resources as they see adding the most value. If this is how you and riverhead wish to participate in the markets, and feel it is helpful, then I respect that. Overall engaging in debt reduction at this point is helpful, however it is done.
Yes doing or not is totally your choice. But as I said, we should recognize that this safer trading opportunity comes from the community (by discounting feed, which in turn can increase sell pressures on STEEM). One can ask us that, "What did you guys do when Steem Dollar went down from 0.95 to 0.80?". I can show him my trading records with placing orders at 0.95. But showing a buying records at 0.80 or round may make less sense for him.
You can make a little profit that compensate your efforts. You can avoid exploitation from other traders. And you can slow down SBD price decrease. But your current position cannot help an increase of SBD price towards the peg, IMHO.