Quote from: tomtinderbox on July 17, 2017, 11:20:48 AM

RAGEmond: that scenario could indeed happen. No one knows what the market is going to do next though, so anything is possible really. However, they accumulated some strong positions in LTC, ZEC, XEM and other large coins the last few days. I'm pretty sure the team knows what they are doing.

TaaS began trading and investing at nearly the cusp of the crash, which may well mean their ICOs are not doing well, not to mention the day trading they are supposedly performing. The ICO tokens that have been launched, to my knowledge, are massively down post-launch due to the ICO craze dumping every single one, which in turn led to the ETH/BTC crash, which has, on average, halved the value of their holdings I believe. It'd be cool if someone had the time to stick all the data into one report and reveal if TaaS is currently losing or is still in the green. If they're in the red, I see no way they could pay out dividends without further compromising their market position, being forced to liquidate in order to pay the ever-more crazed dividend sharks. The only surefire way they could have profited massively off the crash is if they happened to short the market even anywhere near the peaks. Swing trading the bear market in smaller trades seems overly risky for the kind of money they are trading with. But hey, perhaps this fancy Kepler program has guided them through all this, and they did precisely that?

Personally, I'm fairly worried about the way TaaS has decided to manage the payout intervals. 3 months seems like a rather harsh window to impose on the team to turn a profit. I think the dividend should be annual, so once per year. Too frequent dividend payouts put further stress and risk on the team and potentially harm their performance. Once per year is a nice, round period of time and provides ample opportunities for the team to successfully produce results, not to mention it gives time for the ICO investments to mature. Looking at the numbers on ICOstats.com, there are no ICOs that turned a considerable profit in just a few months, so liquidating them seems counter-productive. On average, the ICOs have taken at LEAST a year and usually 2-3 to mature.

In closing, I fear for the productivity of the TaaS team if they are run under such a tight leash. I will be quite surprised if the first year, much less this first quarter turns a genuine profit. That is, they generate enough income to pay out reasonable dividends WITHOUT compromising their market holdings too much. In my honest opinion, the team should have a good 1 year interval to do their job. Better for their focus and trading integrity. Better for investors' peace of mind. Certainly better for potential profits. All I know is that more than the dividend payouts, I await their progress reports. I am sincerely interested in how they are faring with their strategies and how much Kepler has had an impact on their trading.