Saturday Savers Club Progress week 2 - Powered up 83 HP and had an uplift in HBD:HIVE trading

Its week 2 (13/01/24) of my savings focus for 2024 with the Saturday Savers Club which is a great Hive community initiative run by @shanibeer writing as @sally-saver on the @eddie-earner account.

My goals for this year are:

• Primary goal - to increase my HP by 7500, to 18500 HP,
• Secondary goal - to increase my HP delegation to @eds-vote by 1000 HP, to 3000 HP (because I want to accumulate more of the EDS token).

I will also be continuing to increase my holding of investment tokens, and delegating HP to a number of good community curation accounts as well.

This weeks pic - We went to see the musical Wicked just before xmas, and I liked what they did during the break. The put up a 'safety curtain' right across the front of the stage. It wasnt that safe - there was a fire breathing dragon right above it !

Weekly Stats

Weekly commentary

• I gained +83 HP during the week which is really good considering I've not been posting as regularly as normal. I was quite fortunate to win 29 HP in a competition, and my curation (+10.48 HP this week) and HP APR gains bailed me out,
• My HP total now stands at 11112 HP and I need a further 7388 HP to hit my primary goal of 18500 HP. That requires 146.5 per week (up 1.5 HP per week), which is pretty steep and will be quite a challenge,
• My HP delegation to @eds-vote increased by +5HP to 2025 HP. I need to delegate another 975 to hit my secondary target to raise my total delegation to 3000 HP. That will require an average of 19 HP delegated per week to hit it, which I should achieve,
• I delegated another +5 HP to @curangel to bring that total to 117. The aim to to take that to 250 HP,
• The main aim of these community delegations was to support these great curation accounts that have certainly helped me along the way to where I am now, but I'm also getting nice daily drips of HIVE as a result from @ocdb, @qurator and @curangel as they pass on their curation income to delegators, which is a nice little bonus !,
• I gained +2.22 EDS. My 2025 HP delegation to @eds-vote brought in +1.44 EDS this week and the rest was from the mining lottery for holding EDSMMs (I now have 146 of those now, gaining 25 from a Sat Savers Club competition during the week, which was fantastic). My total EDS total has now broken the 100 mark and stands at 101.85. I selected increasing my delegation to @eds-vote as my secondary goal as I'm really keen to keep accumulating EDS, and focusing on the HP delegation works well with my primary goal of increasing my HP total. I'm also planning on buying into the new EDSD token but just havent had the funds this past week,
• I gained +2.552 DAB this week, taking my total to just below 50. I'm pretty sure that that is the highest weekly DAB gain I've ever had - its great to see it continuing to increase,
• I gained +1 DBOND taking my total to 722. I'll be interested to see what is coming from the DAB/DBOND project in 2024, and will more than likely invest further into it - I like the synergy between the two tokens and how they continue to grow all by themselves,
• I gained +2 DRIP this week, taking my total to 104, which is a result of the daily passive gains over the week from staking the DRIP I already have,
• It was quite a volatile week on the HBD:HIVE trading front and there was a really short lived spike last saturday morning, that was hardly noticeable on the graphs. Someone must have put in a big buy for HIVE on the market that just got filled straight away. Luckily I have all my trades set up at my target prices just waiting, so a number of trades got filled that I just wasnt expecting. The market then dropped back to where it was quite quickly so I was able to then sell back the HBD gained at a nice quick profit. That means I had 21 HBD:HIVE trades go through for a total profit of just over 24 HIVE this week (compared to 8 trades the week before for a profit of 4 HIVE). So this was a nice little bonus for not much work.

Plan for the coming week

• To continue to make sure I post daily/regularly to ensure daily HBD and HIVE author rewards,
• To be active in HIVE Blog curation to help with HIVE curation rewards,
• To continue to increase undelegated HIVE in order to improve HIVE curation rewards,
• To continue with HBD:HIVE trading. I'll also be adding some additional funds (in small amounts) to my trading capital each week, in the active trading range, which will help grow the gains over the long term (albeit slowly),
• This weeks delegation of 10% of my weekly HP income to @eds-vote will add a further 8 HP,
• This weeks delegation of 10% of my weekly HP income to community curation accounts will add a further 8 HP to my @curangel delegation.

In summary, it was a really good week but mostly down to luck ! I won 29 HP in a competition, a further 25 EDSMMs from the savers of the year competition, and then add to that the unexpected HBD:HIVE trades. I also passed the 5K mark for staked LOLZ. I've always really liked the LOLZ defi side of things for layer 2 tokens, so that was a nice milestone to break as well. So there are no complaints from me this week !!!

My Tribe Token Investment Project

My experiment with 8 different tribe tokens on my alt account @hoosieboy is moving along nicely. The experiment is designed to grow semi-passively via staking, curation, posting and rebalancing - in a way where the methods should work together and add constructively. Everything gets re-invested back into curation accounts for the same 8 tribe tokens, so it also provides a positive boost to those tribes.

I'll undertook my last rebalance on monday (see here). The basket total has now lost a small amount 2 weeks running (due to drops in the prices of a few of the tokens), however the total number of tokens keeps increasing, which is the main aim - so its all good. I'm still finding it very interesting and its great to see the various methods of curation, posting, staking and rebalancing all working in tandem. You can check out my latest rebalance post on my @hoosieboy alt account here.

And as a reminder:

• Leo Power Up Day (LPUD) is coming up on the 15th of Jan (monday),
• This weeks Savers of the Week post went live on friday (here). The awards for nominees have grown which is great ! We are looking for inciteful content that shows how you are saving, growing and investing. Each of the 4 nominees now gets 15% of the notification post payout and 4 HSBIs - so it can work out as a nice little boost to all nominated ! So make sure you are creating your weekly savings posts - you've got a very good chance of getting selected !

Interested in the Saturday Savers Club ? Check out their latest posts here.