It takes an incredible amount of patience, time, and effort to build up your account, especially if you are a minnow. A good maneuver is to hold both Steem and SBD. When the market swings to your favor, you buy and sell SBD or Steem to maximize your holding of each other currency.

If monitoring the SBD and Steem market takes too much time, then simply purchase Steem whenever you have some SBD to power up.