Results are in from my research i started 7 days ago....

Few days ago i did a little test to see how the payout of my post would be affected by price fluctuations and reward pool reduction, when i pick power up 100%, now that SBD is being printed.
So i posted a picture and upvoted it to 1 USD (came out 2 cents more). And then i waited.....

I checked every few days to see what would be happening. Since i used Smartsteem i expected the 10% return and something plus if the price increased. (well, i didnt really expect that which is why i did this little test, haha)

Now i could be completely wrong about this but prior to HF20 the reward pool balance would be relatively stable and because we had a few days when no one was using their VP during the fork-o, the reward pool filled up and everyones votes were super high.... until they started dropping.......
When i bought bot upvotes prior to HF20 i didnt really need to worry about much, since there was no SBD, reward pool balance was stable and i would be getting +10% on every post. I made around 300 STEEM in a month or so during those fine fine times. :D

To show you what i mean, and to make my post bjutifle, here are some of the screenshots from day 1 to day 7.

Day 1:

Day 2:

Day 3:

Today day:

Sure theres 1 less vote in the end, but that 1 vote was a 0.001 so it doesnt matter much for this test.

During this time the STEEM internal price increased from 0.8$ at the time to 0.81$ atm. (it was constantly over the original internal price.)

The final result:

Drum roll please....

From day one to day 7 the payout in SP has been reduced by 15% while the $ value of the post was reduced by 10%...
Meaning i would not break even by using bots on this post, rather ill be taking a loss.

So what now?

Well, i shall wait.

Im not a fan of SBD and price fluctuations are a tricky business (% loss/gain in token accumulation on post payout is > then % change in STEEM price/post $ value) so i shall go the safe route of taking my 10%, thank you very much, and just pick the 100% SP payout, once the reward pool is stabilized since with 100% power up price fluctuations dont affect Sp gain.

I want to thank @penguinpablo for supporting this scientific endevour with his upvote.. (He probably just liked the picture. haha)

And thats it folks. Cya...

Disclaimer: All this might be wrong. Do your own tests! :D