Hey - first off. I appreciate the advice. But the truth is, I have no sodding clue. I've never been able to figure out what really what's going on.

I read your post - thanks. That helps. So I spent some time trying to follow the suggestion above. After about 10 minutes I found the "Market" button. Then tried to buy Steem. (The other options took me to some external site that simply doesn't work - sits in a spinning loop all the time).

The order to buy steem seemed to be a price order not a market order so ended up opening a gap. Nibbled away for a while - I think. Refused to cancel. OK, I know something happened - bc the estimated value of the account doubled ???

Well, all this is by way of sharing my angst that next time I build a trading platform, and yes I've built a few, I hope to do better...