Just over a week ago I started up four different dragon accounts. I gave each account 300HP to delegate and delegated that to four different communities. There is also a fifth dragon (me) which has delegated to a different community so I'll throw my results in there too.
For anyone who thinks that all delegations pay roughly the same amount...Well, that is certainly not true!
Now I could save the results for the end but here is the quick version and if you are curious about the details feel free to look further down:
| Curator | Return |
|---|---|
 | 13.87% |
 | 8.29% |
 | 8.19% |
 | 4.48% |
 | 0.67% |
Side notes: This is not financial advice. This is only the first week and who knows how things will look after a month or a year. Finally different tokens have different end goals so don't read too much into the quick numbers, read the whole thing and do your own research before delegating anywhere.
Having the honor of getting the first curation reward was Stonegale. 300 HP was delegated to
Short form :
Initial Investment : $100 CAD
Current HP : 305.219
HP Value : $68.06 USD
Weekly Payout : 10.8 GLD / $0.108 USD Value.
% return (Reward + Staking) : (.486+.219)/305 * 100 = 12%
% return (Reward) : (.486)/305 * 100 = 8.29%
It took a week for 
On the same day that Emberfang got its delegation reward, Ashflare got his reward also from
Unfortunately PAKX token is thinly traded and there is a huge spread between the BUY and SELL price. If I was to sell the PAKX token I would only get .1925 Hive. Doing a little math that would mean only a 3.28% return. Less than half of what I would get from the other two curators. However if I wanted to BUY those same .055 PAKX tokens it would be 0.263 Hive or a 4.48% return
Now at first glance it seems hard to want to delegate to
But.... PAKX is a long term play not a short term one. I'm sure 
PAKX has been designed as an appreciating token. New PAKX is only printed when it has enough HIVE to back it. They return a lower percentage NOW so that they can reinvest into better curation results and pump up the value of the token over the long term. The idea is that LATER you can get a much better return on your investment.
Will it really end up being competitive? Good question. I'll keep delegating and watch the price and returns over time. However, I would say that the BUY and SELL wall for PAKX is pretty sad and the spread isn't great either. I think this is an excellent example of why I like liquidity pools but I'll save that for another day :)
Even a trading bot created by the PAKX token to do an automated buy and sell would do a lot to decrease spread and possibly even increase the returns of the token. However, those can be a lot of work. Another thing I'll look into in another post.
I was a little surprised at this delegation. It went to one of the larger communities on HIVE and I really expected it to do better than it did. However, after 9 days the results are:
As you can see the delegation went thorugh but no HIVE was returned within 9 days. But perhaps they give a HIVE ENGINE token instead?
Nope. Nothing there either.
However, while I can't show it here (I don't have cinderclaw.gld info on this computer) there IS a very small payout of AFIT tokens to the account. However, the tokens are sent to an actifit.io wallet and it is not visible easily. In fact any HIVE user wouldn't even know the tokens were there unless they knew where to look. There were 158 AFIT tokens sent to the account and they will have to sit there for a while as they can't be moved to the hive-engine until I accumulate 5,000 tokens. At this rate it will take about a year to get enough to transfer back to HIVE.
I headed over to tribaldex.com to see how much the 158 AFIT tokens were worth in HIVE.
0.0388 Hive or a return of.... 0.67%
Now I am hoping that they start paying out HIVE or HBD tokens as I've seen them do in the past. Maybe they pay out less frequently than weekly. I'll hold on for another few cycles (probably a month) to give them a chance. However, right now they are in last place.
Now I'm not really in the running here but I did delegate my funds to
I have 532.318 HP delegated to
It is nice that
1.42 Leo tokens.
Looking on tribaldex.com
1.159 HIVE for a week. Now doing the math.
As you can tell the return you get on your HP can be very different between curators. Some pay out in HIVE while some pay out in their native tokens. Some have a very good rate of return while others have a much smaller return. Some are best if held for the long term like PAKX. Some you have to dig just to find any return (Actifit).
Now you have an idea why I am running these good little dragon (.gld) accounts. I want to look at lots of different projects and investments and see what gives the best return. Hope you stick around for the results.
