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RE: Delegation Delegation Delegation

in #steem6 years ago

I did a post on delegation returns recently on a selection of delegatees and looked at it at the simplest level, how much SP you delegate and how much dividend you get back. The finding was quite interesting. I didn't includes upvotes and tokens as that got complicated and with the latter i couldn't figure out the returns in a moving market .

Just out of interest have you worked out if you're really getting 20% returns? Its just that on my simple analysis , the actual returns from one delegatee was far off from what they advertised . Not saying its the case here, but was just wondering.

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Hello :) I'm linking your post because it has some really useful figures to add to what I've written above.
With @steemhunt, I feel it's a little unclear exactly what you are getting and I'm guessing that part of the 20% is tokens. I haven't done any recent analysis, although I did look at the returns over a three month period last year (I never published this), and I plan to do a similar thing now that I've moved some of my delegations.
As a general thing for me, it's not only about the returns, it's also about what am I investing in. Steemhunt has looked consistently good in terms of operation and has much bigger, much clearer plans than some other options. Other general principles are:

  • what is it contributing to the community
  • are high short term returns to investors undermining the long-term value of steem
  • are delegator returns separate from posting rewards ie I can do one and not the other and still receive a benefit?

For each of us there are different answers and preferences at different times - I would move some of my delegations if I was taking a break from posting. I don't think there is one right answer and my post reflects my preferences.

My reference to the tokens was really about how to value them for the purposes of calculating returns. Based on my calcs on just dividends, the upvotes and token value would have to be quite significant to generate total 20% returns from the three buckets added together.

And you're definitely right about personal preferences. The good thing about the delegations are that there are so many options depending on whether you're a pure financial investor, an ethical one, want to support your favourite projects, the platform, minnows or yourself, and how often you post in Steemit.