I bought thousands of Bitshares long ago at half a cent each. Then it went to 40 cents. Back to a nickel but maybe a good time to buy! I have some Freeros too, and some Hero.

Maybe keep some SBD handy, to use to Promote posts or buy votes with bots or simply to have some liquid crypto which doesn't swing all that much in value. Buying Steem with SBD on the internal market is confusing and maybe not worth the time, until you have more to work with.

There is a way to move SBD to Bitshares I believe. I bought my Bitshares on Bittrex which is the secondary exchange that I use. TradeQwik is my main one lately. I moved Bitshares from Bittrex to Bitshares Open Ledger. There are articles on here about ways to move things from here to there. When you have a specific thing in mind to move from one place to another I'll see if I can help.

If you decide to open a CoinBase account which in my opinion is the way to go when you decide to buy crypto with US Dollars from your checking account or sell crypto into US Dollars in your checking account, then you might want to use this link:

https://www.coinbase.com/join/574e43dca11a1f18a9000739

They are perpetually running a promotion there, that gets both of us some free Bitcoin if you use my referral link. To quote CoinBase...

Using digital currency is more fun with friends! You can invite your friends by sharing the provided link. Once your friend buys or sells $100 of digital currency or more, you will both get $10 of free bitcoin.

Thanks and feel free to ask any more questions! We might need to switch to a phone convo at some point, if you think it would help more. :-)