We're open to moving to another platform if things ever hit the fan with CS but we still want to have our current emergency liquidation plan in place if its not a viable option to move, because we might need to give funds back for people to repurchase, if regulatory agencies put us out of business, etc. We haven't paid to much attention to havelock but from our latest examinations it looks like things run very smooth over there. To early to make any formal decisions but this is a discussion were happy to keep evolving.
Next order of business is today's dividends, they are pretty terrible due to our trading platform and our own strategies thinking a dip was imminent when it wasn't. We've linked the image and you can see where we messed up, at 5/24 3:30(and to a much lesser extent at 5/23 16:00) we thought a drop back down coming since we had multiple samples showing a downtrend imminent. This likely could have been avoided since we didn't have our more standard settings on---ignored volume at 500, didn't require enough continuous drops at 30min polling intervals for MACD, although 1hr and 2hr polls showed a incoming drop. In layman's terms: we had the sensitivity turned up too high on our "tradebot".
This had about 25% of the portfolio tied to it since we were set to put more of the new funds into action, so we basically sold a bunch of btc at and around $502 ($515 bitstamp), right before it surged upward again....ouch. Fortunately, we have our platform set to take a loss. What we mean by this is once our platform started picking up the trend reversal upward after 3:30 and had a few confirmation samples it began to buy back in....sometimes the most profitable thing you can do is take a loss. The losses totaled about ~0.75btc which we estimate cut the dividend in about half.
We're disappointed we have such a lackluster dividend today but on the upside we stemmed any major losses and aren't offering a 0 dividend and that we can improve our strategies going forward to avoid similar scenarios. We hope we have adequately explained things and no investors are extremely dissatisfied after reading this, if you have any questions feel free to ask and we'll do our best to answer.
-Tom and Jeff
edit: we should have included a SS with it at 30min intervals but its where the cursor cross is at 3:00-3:30 is where we are describing