I suck at trading. Lesson learned yet again.
Last night, shortly before falling asleep, I finally succeeded at importing my keys! I now have access to my entire balance of Bitshares. The problem was actually largely my own fault, the original reason for the delay, large keys not importing, was solved several days ago by enterprising forum members.
In the midst of my personal bias for BTS, the hype preceding 2.0 launch, and bitcoin stagnation, I figured a week or two before the launch it'd be a good idea to sell 50% of my bitcoin in BTS and hold to see if the launch increased the price.
See my quandry?
I now have more BTS than I should be comfortable with, less BTC than I should be comfortable with, and Bitcoin looks like it has left the short term launch pad without me. I would have balanced back out at the first sign of price increase by BTC backed with good news, but I didn't have access to my coin.
To be perfectly clear I'm not upset. I understood the risks. I don't blame anybody but myself on this.
But I need advice from better traders than me while I try to form a damage control strategy. My take on this is that the price is being pumped by the federal government due to impending silk road auction. this happened before the last auction too and the price tanked a few weeks afterwards.
If that happens again then my best strategy is patience until BTC price bottoms out again.