The best trade I had was when Maker and Ethereum were at a one to one ratio, I traded about 10 Ethereum for 10 Maker. Fast forward in time and 1 Maker = 5 Ethereum at its highest! I traded some Maker back into Ethereum when it was going down, about 3 Maker for 11 Ethereum, not bad.
Then I took a wrong turn....
I thought Steem had a great outlook and big updates were just around the corner. Well that is "true", but theres not really much activity beyond 30,000 people total in a day maybe(with 900,000+ inactive accounts I think it is).
https://steemit.com/steemit/@penguinpablo/daily-steem-stats-report-tuesday-august-6-2019
Going by the graph recently published, we can see the Posts Per Day largely remains on a downward trend, while comments are low then spike(price was higher during that time) and dip back down as price lowers.
I turned my Ethereum into Steem at one point, and it was like a 1 Ethereum = 300 Steem ratio when I did it, now that ratio is like 1 Ethereum = 1,200 Steem or so.... Yeah...
Had I have just held onto my Ethereum I would be in much better shape. Though I am still not going to sell out my Steem just yet(you will notice my account is almost fully powered down). I am waiting for prices to go back up and to see if SMTs will do something for another year or two, and honestly, possibly 3 or 4 years. There really isn't any "killer dapps" on any blockchain that got tons of people playing besides CryptoKitties/Ethergoo/SteemMonsters/DrugWars(scam wars) and a few other small time games.