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my average payout is $5 with no promotion, today i spend $32 on promotion of 2 posts and earned $52 so far, but still have another 18 hours to go

That $52 is before payout to curators and of the remainder 50% is not liquid correct?

if you break it down like that, I would recommend you DO NOT use the promotion feature, it takes a great deal of self confidence to win with steemit promotion, self doubt definitely clips your wings. All my posts are paid in 100% steem power, and I power down a sell steem when the price goes up. $10 earned today is $15 for me next week if the price of steem goes up by 10 cents, the longer I wait the more it's worth, and I can wait for months if needed. Right now all the steem earn at 17 cents, I can sell at 25 cents or more

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