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I am not quite sure if I understand what you said. What do you mean by weekly payouts? Do you mean the sbd and SP you're going to get from your posts and comments in that week? So you mean I should consider the effect of power down on the payouts I will get before implementing the power down?

No, the power down process takes 13 weeks to finish, but it happens in 13 installments, each week you get 1/13 Steem of your Steem power. What i said was to consider powering down only if the weekly Steem you're going to cash out is enough (whatever amount you decide is OK)

Suppose if i had 1300 sp, I'd power down for some time because I'm assured of getting 100 Steem each week - which i believe is "enough" amount for me to trade, in this hypothetical scenario

But if i had only 170 SP (my current SP) and not 1300, i wouldn't power down because my weekly payouts would be only around 13 Steem, which is useless to me.., would rather keep it locked in and maximize my influence on the platform

Thanks for the explanations, now it's clear to me.
Yes, you're right, when and how much to power down should be carefully considered.
I guess after powering up to accumulate SP, to some point time, your SP will be good enough to generate your desired amount of payouts every week. Then probably you will just stop power up and atart to cash out regularly.

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