Awkward Long Positioning: Ride the Lightning!

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Because I have all my stake in the Den:

I am effectively longing the market pretty hard.

My farm is suffering.

Whereas before I had 100% in the CUB/BUSD LP pool, I was generating 3.62% APR a day, while in the CUB den I "only" get 1.46% APR per day. With inflation this high, every day I sit in the den is going to sting a bit more.

The strategy here is to slowly start reentering the highest yield pool as the price goes up (assuming the price goes up). If not I'll just HODL like a champ and take the loss. Or not, who knows.

For example, if the price of CUB hit $6, I'd probably have to sell at least 5% of my den stack into BUSD and match it in the LP pool: moving out of the den 10% in total. I'd likely have to move out a little more if it hits $8; maybe 30%-50% total.

The more downside risk there is for CUB the more I want exposure to the BUSD/CUB LP pool due to the high farm and volatility being cut in half by the stable coin. Should CUB crash back to $4 I can always all-in the DEN again. I'm basically just gambling that $4 is the floor at this point, and I'm willing to hold all the way down to $3 because there should be an obscene amount of support there.

1%

In a week there will be about 1.1M coins in circulation total. Even if I stay in the den the entire time I'll still end up owning 1% of the coins in circulation. Feeling pretty good about that, because again, if my tokens are earning extra farm in the LP pool: they are also for sale and I might not own 1% come Monday. CUB spiking in that scenario subjects me to high impermanent loss. So far I'm buying into the hype (obviously). Not only that but all the mechanics and direction of the project seem extremely solid. Bridge coming soon™; leasing dapp coming soon™. Should be good.

Current strategy

I'll just have to sweat it out for another 24 hours and see where the market goes. With hyperinflation this strong: every day matters a lot. I am also using the recent inflation reduction as a template for what might happen on March 22 when it gets cut again by 50% (2 CUB per block to 1). Looks like when yields go down farmers panic and sell, as predicted. Is that panic warranted? I'm betting not.

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Push/Pull

The more stake I have in the CUB/BUSD pool, the more I am hedged against the downside. The more stake I have in the den the more I'm longing the short-term token price. Clearly 100% long at the moment is a bit extreme so, like I said, I may have to rebalance tomorrow. We'll see.

Tie goes to the LP pool.

Due to the farm of the LP pools being much higher, if the price just keeps trading sideways I'm going to lose this bet; should have just stayed in the LP pool for maximum farm. Still, it's fun to try: diamond hands and all that.

Double bottom?

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Obviously the hope for me is that this support at $4 holds stronk. I think it will: good unit-bias level and all time low is basically $3.50. The AMA was a bit anti-climatic, so I figure I still need to give some time for the market to catch up and let the new inflation rate do its thing.

Conclusion (Rich people problems!)

It feels weird to complain about "only" generating $500 a day instead of $1300 a day. But theoretically at these values that's the reality of the situation. Who knows how much these coins will be actually worth when I trade them (if ever). Who knows if I'll be able to make up for these losses in farm by avoiding impermanent loss. It's a risky play to be sure, but I can lose the best and still earn money with the lower EV option. They are both likely positive Estimated Value plays: I'm just not sure which one will provide the biggest yield at the end of the week.

Being in the CUB den is the same as longing the market. The CUB/BUSD farm is much more hedged to the downside direction, and is still pretty good should the price go up. Obviously the LP farms are superior if we trade sideways due to high yield: so my current bet is UP UP AND AWAY. Everyone knows how good I am at these predictions so: act accordingly.

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It is tough to balance between the yields of the farm and hoping for the price of CUB to increase while staking in the den.

I've just been keeping my initial investment entirely in the CUB-BUSD pool, and then depositing all of my CUB into the den. I think it would have worked out better if I converted my harvests into additional LP tokens, but it is what is.

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That was my initial strategy till I went full ape.

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For the sake of usability, you should be able to compound your CUB reward into the LP pool with a single push of a button. Now it involves doing many times the work.

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I probably should have done exactly that. Instead I jumped around like a hungry ape who found a banana.

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Almost all my stake is in the CUB Den. I'm struggling to decide between reinvesting in the CUB Den or to put it in one of the CUB liquidity pools. In the $20 daily range doing a daily reinvesting in the liquidity pools probably doesn't make sense because of the fees.

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Yeah to me I assume the price of CUB is going down hard. Since we all stake to earn CUB, we will have a tendency to damp eeew like how we do every other airdrop! I dunno, I'm going in harder into the USDT and USDC and letting it earn me cub which I can either damp or not. In any event it should add to my stack of stable coins as I damp the free coins! Of course I will keep a small amount of the CUB, just in case! Whuhahahahha!

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First thanks for helping me with the fee, even though I look crazy in the discord asking for a change.

At the time of writing there was a high drop, from $ 4.38 to $ 3.80, someone let go of their hand to make profits, which will now make the chart slowly move up the stairs.

I predict a sideways close to $ 4.12, until the next move being a sharp drop again with someone making a profit from operations, or a rise to $ 5.00 again with more capital coming in.

Let's wait.

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It is incredible how well I have been doing during the first week, despite seemingly doing everything wrong. After inflation goes to normal levels next week and assuming CUB price stays at 3.8 USD as it is right now - and even if the APR then also shrinks by another 50% further due to more liquidity added to my farm and den - I would still earn 100 USD a day. That is just mind blowing.

Apparently my diamond paws graphic is been shared a lot and each time with a worse quality. Here it is again for future use, in original diamond quality.

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Random Upvote for classic Metallica song title quote : : dispensed

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Yeah I probably shouldn't of just aped you like that 30m after waking up, that was the reserve powder and now it's gone.

Still, if apes had followed and/or new money had come in like we were expecting, it would have been a golden play.

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I'm still in the bLeo/BNB and Cub/Busd with smallish stakes with the majority in the den. That's enough exposure for me. I don't have the mental energy to do all the math to figure out which one is best when. lol I appreciate your posts though. I'm learning in spite of my best efforts to stay dumb. :-)

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I have all of my Cub in the Den as well. I did have some in the Cub/BNB pool, but it was not generating as much Cub for me as what was in my BNB/BLEO pool, so I pulled it out. I did it before the cross chain drop because I figured the price of Cub would go down due to people dumping.

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I'm longing $CUB out of convenience and not having to worry about all the situations and conditions you elaborated about but also because I am long on $CUB. It's off to a great start right off the bat and is attached to a very successful blockchain. I'm sure there's a bunch more planned for Cubdefi & $CUB so I don't think chillin' in the Den is a bad move at all. After Lions Feast they rest and nap in their Den's. Farming is too much work haha

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