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RE: Why It Makes Sense To Pay A Premium For Steem Dollars
Thanks. This is an interesting strategy, to me it looks like pair trade strategy where you short BTC and long steem dollar, and because steem dollar usually peg with usd at 1 dollar, normally it gives you relative low volatility when there is crash. I guess i will also look into steem/btc ratio see its trading range?
Hey, thanks for reading! It's great to have that floor of $1 worth of STEEM when holding SBD. Even if the price of SBD drops below $1, you can still get $1 worth of STEEM for an SBD. Although, when converting SBD to STEEM, you're subject to the 3.5 day price fluctuation.
Yes i find if u convert sbd to steem internally, it takes 3.5 days + the convertion price is somehow quite far off to what the market may suggest.but ofcourse if you go to market to exchange it then the floor may not be existence. I am lucky to convert some steem power at 1.1x todah :)
Let's say today you have 1 SBD and you convert it to STEEM. The system doesn't take into account the market price of SBD, it only uses the market price of STEEM.
Therefore, if over the next 3.5 days, the average price of STEEM is $2, you'll get 0.5 STEEM for your 1 SBD. It doesn't matter if SBD is trading for $0.70 or $1.90, you'll get 0.5 STEEM either way.
If you want to minimize your risk due to STEEM price fluctuation, you can break down your conversions into smaller increments. If you have 10,000SBD, instead of converting all 10,000 at one time, you may want to convert 500 per day for the next 20 days.
That is an important detail.
You get the amount of STEEM depending on the price in 3.5 days. But always $1 dollar worth.
This delay is not a bug, it's a feature!
This feature does two things:
It gives you one dollar worth of Steem, which can be traded.
But also limits the possibilities for day traders to speculate on the price of SBD.
In this way, the system has a built-in robustness.
That's real innovation, from where I'm standing.