Make the most of these Trading Opportunities!

Like many, I was shocked to see this big drop in the HIVE token price this morning.

One part of me was cheering as I knew in 16 hours I would have another 5700 STEEM in liquid form waiting to depart my wallet.

The other part was thinking that the opportunity to trade may have evaporated by then, so what to do about it?

...'so sorry Ledger, I will make it up to you'...

I had 18.6 LTC sitting in my Ledger and have been feeding it for a while with liquid STEEM from my 50/50 STEEM rewards. It was time to make use of it.

After sending the LTC to Bittrex and having to wait an excruciating 40 minutes for the 6 confirmations to be verified I had my coins on the exchange.

*...'isn't LTC supposed to be fast? Not between a Ledger and Bittrex, it ain't!'...

The BTC/LTC pairing is very fluid and in less than 5 minutes my sell order of LTC was filled.

I looked at the BTC/HIVE trading view and could see the volume is still comparatively light but there was a lot of activity going on.

I had some Bittrex credits and used them gaining me a slightly better order.

Having canceled the first buy order at 1550 Satoshis, my revised offer was filled relatively quickly at 1599. Not bad I say!

Some may think I'm crazy by selling a more stable coin such as LiteCoin for the very unstable HIVE but I don't think so.

My target was always 100,000 HIVE and by tomorrow I will have attained my target with the release of the liquid STEEM later today.

Since powering up HIVE I have seen a marked increase in curation rewards amounting into the 40's per day.

I can see why the bigger accounts don’t need to post so often. Why bother when you can just gain passive HIVE by curation?

This does not mean I will stop writing, but starting from tomorrow I am back in the land of employment again which means far less time.

The post every day will likely decrease and any time I have will be for some manual curation; yes some of us still do that!

As I type this the HIVE price has increased to 1728 Satoshi's which is incredible considering whenever I do trade the price ALWAYS goes down.

Maybe my luck is changing. Sometimes you need to take these opportunities and grab them by the throat.

*...'I never thought I would see the day, but my hand has been forced'...

I will replace the 18.6 LTC and increase it to 20 LTC or more in the next few weeks.

I feel there's still time to get a good deal on HIVE, or maybe 11c is the new regular price? Nobody knows, and we all have to gamble a little.

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