Hmm.. I am a contract worker.  Actually, a statutory employee in the U.S. at this point, but in fact on contract.  I can switch to PFTE if I wish to do so.  This would cut out an agency middle-man, who has been raking in $150/diem for my head, doing nothing whatsoever but trans-billing, since 2008.

Since I have an option here, I might exercise it by submitting to the agency an ultimatum:  I get paid in XMR or I terminate the contract and go permanent full-time, thus cutting them out.  That would mean they have to buy USD 1200 in XMR every non-holiday week-day, forever -- but they get to keep the $150/diem rake.

It also means I would quickly become a net seller of XMR.

I rather like the exercise part. I rather dislike the forces sales part.  Hmm...

As long as my credit is good, I am a buyer long past the point of despair.  When I start to feel the fear and depression, I cheer myself up by buying more.  I take some amphetamine and a shot of whiskey, if that's what it takes.  

Until people have obligations which can only be discharged in monero, there are no forced buyers, and volatility extremes will persist.  Just about the only thing that can give you a permanent loss is selling - especially forced sales from leverage.