My choice of stable currency to hold is HBD on Hive. It’s quite easy to set up compared to many , gives 12% APY and it is very low risk.
I’ve been able to bring my total stable portfolio to $3000 hbd. Everyone who’s been following my life here knows that a huge part of my focus since last quarter has been to build myself a solid position in stable coins without breaking the bank. i.e without extensively stalling the growth of my major assets.
But it came at a cost. The implication of the cost was that I was restricted from investing in a lot of other tokens I saw with huge potentials along the way, however looking back now, it seemed like I saved myself from potential loss in value as most tokens are now correcting.
Although most tokens I would have invested in had very nice runs,....but I’m a sucker when it comes to cashing out, once I’m locked into a project and it is performing well, I can very much abandon the money till I’m in dire need of it, which is almost never because I’m a very frugal spender and I’ll rather hit it big than go home with a few change.
One of my major reasons for saving up a stash of stable coins is to hedge a part of the value of my portfolio from price dumps, so that when markets actions like is presently happening takes place I will have options, as capital for reinvestment OR as something to fall back on should I urgently need a cash bail out.
This way, I don’t get to sell my other precious tokens at a low. OR, as retirement plan.
What still fascinates me till this moment is that while I’m accumulating these stables, I’m earning monthly APR at 12%APY on them. So at a savings of 3000hbd, I’m getting 30hbd monthly that could either be compounded or reinvested to grow my position in hive or other tokens I choose. Building wealth over time as @taskmaster4450 wrote about in this post.
If I could for go the potential gains or losses of investing in other tokens for the time being and focus on growing this stash of stables more, then the time will come when the Yield will give me enough capital that will enable me to increase my investment in other tokens.
Beside my major positions in assets such as HIVE, LEO, SEED, CUB, RUNE and Splinterlands Assets, the only projects I’m newly invested in are those that I’ve gotten for free through airdrops and the likes, such as THOR, VYB and some other Hive engine tokens.
I saved a lot during the winter, the only impulsive purchase I made was a Splinterlands Plot of Land I gifted myself as Christmas present, it cost about $800 at the time.
Sometimes I feel I haven’t saved enough stables, but I’m trying not to put pressure on myself or on my major portfolio, the markets could turn around anytime and I would hate to miss any run up. Hence why I’m building slowly. Whether or not I’m doing the best thing. Time will tell. I hope I am though.
Thanks for reading.
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I think this is happening with many , and sometimes missed the train to book profit...but still I am ok ...considering I accumulated some for long run...
As I am slowly understanding the tokenemics on Hive...I will be getting one step at a time....and hope to get them achieved all..
Lool Hi Steemflow!!!Happy new year to you!
Portfolio management is not as easy as it seems. Perhaps some AI could manage these things better lol
Good luck with your plans.
Same as you I am building my HBD savings for 2022. HBD is a great product as it gives very acceptable returns on an stable assets without third party risk. I feel way more confortable having HBD as my main stable coin just in case the market turns bear in 2022. I really hope the witnesses are going to keep the interest above 10%, I believe in the medium term it will slowly bring more people to Hive because people are going to be seriously looking for ways to protect their accumulate wealth from this cycle and it might be are job to show them that HDB is a possibility for them.
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Yup 100%!
I’ll also like to think the witnesses are watching the activities taking place in the hbd economy so that they can better understand when and how to tweak rates to get the best out of it in every market.
But I remain strongly on the opinion that higher rates will be a positive move than not. 15% should be the next raise. The market is hungry for it in this uncertain times.
In the end though, algorithmic stable coins will be the ones who will stay. HBD will be a very fine spec at that time.
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I hope your plans went well so far
I cant argue with your logic at all. I am also building my HBD holding. You are right, it is not the high flying activity of some crypto runs but it makes sense as a stable part of one's portfolio.
The article I wrote was to show that huge wealth can be built at 12%. We all want to focus upon the moonshots but a 12% gain over decades can really add up. It only requires time.
HBD is low risk with a high return. Hopefully, this year we can get Hive Bonds or at least Hive Certificate of Deposits going.
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Yup. I totally agree
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HBD savings is one of the better ways to save and build wealth without fear of price fluctuation. I have been saving up a token and been monitoring the price over time.
Exactly why it is my choice to hold.
Good luck with your plans
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Baba, you will make more interest here 10x than holding it in your local Bank account.
100% point! And Local bank can take my money one day. But not on Hive.
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I think it's a very smart choice. The last months of 2021 I was putting 25% of my liquids into HBD savings so that I still had room to buy other stuff as well. At the end of the year, I emptied my savings to make sure I hit my HP goal that year. So I started over again this year.
This year I set the goal to have 2500 HBD savings at the end of the year. It's not my priority the first month of the year, as I have some other goals to hit first and then I will get back to putting stuff into savings (to get back on track first some full payouts probably, and then go back to a percentage).
I too see the huge advantage of earnings 25 / 30 HBD each month just for holding it. This year I shall build, and hopefully, next year, I shall profit from my building.
I think 12% is a no brainer and great opportunity to earn passively.
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I see many people preferring other options of savings like using UST on Terra which is offering around 19-20% APR.
It’s cool I mean, but do I know Terra as much as I know Hive? No, Terra might have superb security and all but I can’t vouch for it cuz I haven’t used it, I don’t know about it as much as I do Hive even if what I know about Hive is only so little.
At some point along the line, HBD’s inconsistencies will work out better than it presently is. At this point, we’ll have to do with what we have. Or at least that’s what I think.
Exactly the reason why I stick to Hive as well. Hive is already hard work lol, I want to up my game here, not add another task to my daily stuff and learn about Terra as well. It would be unrealistic for me to think that would be worth the few extra $
I think 12% is very nice and after this month, with other stuff to focus on, I will defo start adding more into savings and give that a boost :) It seems like a very smart move especially because I have all faith in Hive!
Me too me too.
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Shiiii remember when we spoke about this
LOL, "only" 12% at the time :) lol
Lool I know right. We’ve come a looooong way considering everything that’s happened
Yeah, pretty cool to see and experience. I have no doubt this is the place to be and build. I have not managed to save up my HBD as I eventually needed it for real life first, but we're close to the final step of the real life funds for a while (buying a car) and after that, I'm back to building 100% again. HBD is definitely a great option with 20% :)
For me,I have started accumulate this Hive tokens. I will sell when it will what million in my country currency. For hbd I will try to get more of this token.
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At 1 million or 10million naira? Or 100million 😂?
Any one
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Lol okay now. Goodluck
Thank you
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We all know how crypto can be craze but it makes absolutely no sense if someone doesn’t lock some profit in stable, I have more than 5k before but back to 2k and I just wanna build from there and see how it goes.
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Yeah bro. I’m on the same page. Balancing portfolio is not small work but it is needed. A little stables here and there can make a lot of difference down the line.
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That’s true bro, stable coin are actually one of the best thing in crypto now
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Nice work!
Do you have any plans to move HBD into HIVE at a certain price?
What is low enough where you simply can't ignore the potential upside?
You do still earn 7-10% on that HIVE via curation remember.
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Yes I do, in my head, I think $0.5 will be a nice entry point, I plan to buy from $0.5 all the way down to $0.1 if it ever gets there.
I’ll still make tangible power ups along the way also to get those curation rewards. So eventually I’ll be doing a bit more than 20% if I add curation and savings apr together.
Thanks 😊☺️
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Being on crypto space this 12% may not look great but I think having a fixed apr on the stable coin is a great Idea. I follow you on this and I am also starting my HBD saving from now on. I am starting today with 100 HBD but will continue to grow this year. Interesting blog my friend.
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Thanks reeta. Little drops make an ocean.
Stashing up of these stable coins over the years must have been such a blissful-sour journey I guess . The rest they say is history will be your response to this I feel.
Yeahhh. Got it. In my eyes I still have a long way to go
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I think it’s a good idea to balance out your portfolio with stable coins, and HBD is one we know well and earn daily. So why not? Plus 12% interest each year does hurt. LOL
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I think so too.
Hopefully along the line, witnesses have more reasons to increase the yield. And I think this is a good time so that people will be incentivized to buy hive and hbd to hold. There is a lot of eyes on algorithmic stable coins in crypto these days and hive can shine here as well.
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P.S,
Splinterlands prices are dropping quite a bit!
Do you feel this is the norm?
I am following the prices of some cards down, to see how low they Ho before Ipull the trigger on their purchase.
Thanks
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Oh I think they will go lower once public sale goes full swing as I’m sure that there will be a lot more cards hitting the market.
But also as people power up and decimate their cards to hunt for DEC, the market will absorb the influx.
Because splinterlands is such a cool game, it will have a second wave of bull period. As soon as the cards gets saturated. Just like happened with Untamed.
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Hey shorts. Look Howfar we’ve come
Wow. It has been quite the journey. Your strategy turned out to be the wisest in Hive.