It's not too late to join the winning team. NEM No Envy Movement.
Well, I'll give you this: it's nice to see you show your hidden hand. The only thing that stopped me from buying NEM was price. When it sunk to 20'000 NXT on the AE, I was tempted to pick up a haunch - but stubborn old me waited for it to sink further to ~10'000. And sure enough: 20'000 was close to the low, after which it rebounded. Go figure.
Do you happen to know how much BTC it would take to buy enough NEM to make up a stake at today's (Polo) prices?
https://nxtblocks.info/#section/assets_exchange/market/12465186738101000735(click the "all" button under the market tab)
NEMstake range was 15,000 to 50,000. Most people bought between 20,000 to 40,000 NXT, if you look at volume (mean based at volume peaks was probably around 30,000? That's a lot of number crunching for an otherwise immaterial exact number when an approximation is sufficient).
Today 2,225,000 XEM (equivalent to one NEMstake) can be sold for 1.35 BTC and that 1.35 BTC can approximate NEMstake-NXT: meaning 2.25M XEM = 27,000 NXT.