I have neitger tried mining in past not have any palm for future also.
Simple reason I don't have budget to buy those heavy miners. Same is for trading also (direct trading)
But I love to play with faucets most of time I convert all crypto I have into DOGE COIN, simple reason I tracked Doge most of the time it's on low side (a few satoshi) but suddenly news come and the price shoot for a short time (it happens last month also), at that time I convert all my Doge into SP through @blocktrades. Unfortunately I don't have Doge in big quantity (a few thousand, all are from faucets, which give me SP in two digits).
I find this a good strategy.