Don't get too discouraged. It's an uphill climb around here as I have discovered as well. If you look at all of the posts with the 100s of dollars a post they all seem to have been around since this time last year. It seems to take that long to get the 1000+ followers they have. I have been hanging back a bit. I comment here and there to pick up more followers. Seems to be working okay. Have also been poking around to see how others are picking up followers and tips on writing successful posts. Hope to see some more trading tips from you soon. Have you heard or seen any good info about NXT or Factom? Also tags are crazy important too. I noticed this is in the contest category. The first of five tags is the category it's placed in. This post would have probably been see by more people if steem-help was the first tag. Only pointing it out because I've done it myself.