first of all.  when is the witness winner going to be known? 
then your charts. a very great account was made @kabolo. i call it great cause at such small level the community endeavors to make an impact but then with the low value of steem, things got on the downlow. so i decided to spend less but guess what? i couldn't because i had needs. so i had to more posts and comments just to meet up to my personal needs. i won't give up on steemit, not now , not ever! It feeds me

I bought most of my Steem between 3-4$ and deeply regret, that I converted it into SP. This market is way too volatile to have your investment locked in for 13+ weeks. I won't make this mistake again and will invest from now on in projects like TRON or EOS, where I can withdraw my money anytime or park it in USDT until the market recovers.
I will keep on posting on Steem, because I found an awesome audience, but from the investment side, this blockchain has died for me. Congratulations @exyle for making it work for you - there are very few people like you though...

i hope steem will incrase! if not i'm a dead body xD

even i don't look at charts while buying i buy what i feel like hahah but defintely something to understand in this crypto market

Keep going!  It will be awesome when you reach that goal you have set for yourself.  I am slowly working towards my goal of 500SP.  I can't wait to get to that point.  I am hoping a small purchase here in the future will push me there.

At the beginning of the year there were some that were hyping steem will reach the $100 mark by the end of the year, as I said back then I will be happy with $10/steem by december :)

Charts are an excellent way to follow progress. I just keep on plodding along having some fun engaging and not worrying about the price too much. I just collect the steem and not worry about how low it will go. It will go as low as the markets dictate. There is nothing anyone can do except ride it out.

At that first point you've highlighted for September 2016 Steem was still a hyperinflationary token. The investment token as you know was the Vest (Steem Power). The price may be the same but we have more than twice the market cap and something like 20 times as much SBD, and you have more Steem per MVest.

Fundamentals do win in the end, but it's a process that takes years. Irrational markets are eventually forced back to fundamentals like gravity. Sometimes it's catastrophic or sudden. Otherwise Pets.com and even the South Sea Company would be the giants of today, not Amazon and Apple.

I love charts, they tell everything (unless some crisis happens). And on the chart you show here, we can see that we have a pretty strong support line around this price.

I do like your long term perspective for Steem.  If I was going to make someone my proxy it would be someone who was thinking that way.

The more price will go down, the more I will buy ;)

Steem have now heavily very low price... And I think if BTC go up... steem can very fast jump up 5.. or 6 $ ... that's what i see.

That's an interesting chart @exyle. It's great to see it on a timeline like that along with what your comments.

Just out of curiosity, when you were selling whatever your steem power could generate, at the beginning of the year, how much Steem Power did you have then?

Fundamentals are something that I have always rooted for as well. Recently though my guts have been screaming about technical analyses and it has made me take a look as well. 

I joined Steemit in Jan 2018 and didn't had a penny to spend on buying steem. So I have been posting, commenting and quietly powering up all of it. These recently low prices have somehow increased my steem earnings (even the dollar value of posts are down). 

It's a pretty good time to both buy and earn steem. Its just a little weird to see a lot of people pulling back now, when they should be accumulating. I am a relative newbie here (got introduced to the crypto space in Oct.  2017) and even I can see that.

I really do believe that the market has bottomed out already but there are still a lot of skeptics that keep the sentiment sluggish. My reasoning is this:
1) Miners won't allow the price to fall TOO low because they still need to maintain a profit for their multimillion dollar businesses.
2) Major exchanges have an interest in keeping prices afloat to facilitate more active trading and thus more fees
3) Retail investors see the steep discounts on the market and are willing to buy up the surplus supply at times like this and provide much needed market support. 
4) Pending institutional adoption will cause a second wave of investment to flood into crypto over the next 6-18 months.

Good inform. Nice work.

i’m amazed at how good i feel lol

on paper, i lost a bunch of money on steem. 

but i’m still beyond bullish and looking forward to keep stacking the SP at these prices. 

you are so right man. the roadmap. the upcoming changes. what an opportunity for fans of steem and members of this community!! 

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All my investments are manner beneath earnings and that i do not know what to do.
fortuitously I earn steem so i'm simply protecting. No new funding for me now though, except for the very brief term. due to the fact I want to feed

I don't watch the price much at all. I just blog and accumulate while staying enthused by watching vlogs by a guy called @exyle.

Actually I'm having a lot of fun!

Agree with your assessment.  I started on the platform in January and told myself to buy if prices went down.  My purchases started in February when theprice dipped below $4.  As I bought, I thought those who bought below $1 were geniuses given how great the community and platform is.  I have continued to dollar cost average in during the bear market but once $1 was broken I have accelerated these purchases as I now have goals to get over 10k SP and with the coming developments, I don’t think the opportunity will be around for long.

Learned so much, thanks!

Well you sure have been a great and cautious investor as I have seen over the year !

While we shall get as much as possible :)

interesting posts about your days that you made in a graph

I think people love this place and wont leave even if the steem price goes more down. I mean if think about facebook! Everybody is using it and not getting anything in return.

All my investments are way below profits and I don't know what to do. 
Thankfully I earn steem so I'm just holding. No new investment for me now though, except for the very short term.  Because I need to feed

The last half of 2016 and the first quarter of 2017 must have been gut wrenching! Good for you for sticking it out! The upswing after that had to be pretty exciting! Wow, it's great to see a chart like this with your first hand experience alongside! The Steem future is bright! Happy buying bit by bit. Steem on!! 😊🌱🌳🌄🐱