"Became a merchant" Challenge Diary (after 10 weeks)

peter.quill

Published: 16 Mar 2026 › Updated: 16 Mar 2026 "Became a merchant" Challenge Diary (after 10 weeks)

"Became a merchant" Challenge Diary (after 10 weeks)

Hi!

At the beginning of this year, I started a challenge related to Splinterlands Market Pools. You can read about it in this post

In this article, I would like to share the status after 10 weeks.

What do I do every Sunday?

As I described in my initial post, I provide 10k DEC worth of liquidity to the five pools (2k each) each week. I also try to maintain the balance between them (20% each), so if one liquidity contains more value, I will put less DEC into that.

Steps for each pool:

Calculate how much DEC I will invest in the pool (e.g., 2000 DEC)
Buy the particular asset for half of the DEC (e.g., GRAIN for 1000 DEC)
Put the remaining DEC and the asset into the corresponding pool (DEC-GRAIN)

Why are we starting immediately with a -10% loss?

I wrote about this in my first summary article

Aggregated transactions (week 6-10)

Market	DEC Investment	Asset Investment	Asset Amount	Average Asset Price
VOUCHER	4,782.332	5,313.689	193.121	27.51481
GRAIN	5,179.601	5,755	340,584.862	0.01689
WOOD	5,437.297	6,041	168,988.348	0.03574
STONE	3,893.584	4,326	42,572.273	0.10161
IRON	4,392.137	4,880	10,630.598	0.45905
Total	23,684.951	26,315.689

Asset price changes

Name	Initial price (01.04)	Current	Change	Change %
VOUCHER	35.58400	25.92286	-9.66114	-27.15%
GRAIN	0.01944	0.01548	-0.00396	-20.38%
WOOD	0.06310	0.03163	-0.03147	-49.87%
STONE	0.09417	0.12231	0.02814	29.88%
IRON	0.49252	0.49951	0.00699	1.42%

Currently, only the price changes for STONE and IRON are positive, but thanks to multiple transactions and balancing, we don't have a significant loss.

Portfolio Status

Market	Investment	DEC value	Asset value*	Total DEC value	Profit	Profit %	Percentage
VOUCHER	20,608	9,499	8,549	18,048	-2,559	-12.42%	20.23%
GRAIN	20,988	9,364	8,428	17,792	-3,196	-15.23%	19.94%
WOOD	21,779	9,329	8,396	17,725	-4,053	-18.61%	19.87%
STONE	17,718	9,452	8,507	17,959	241	1.36%	20.13%
IRON	18,903	9,306	8,375	17,681	-1,222	-6.46%	19.82%
Total	99,995.027	46,950	42,255	89,205	-10,790.027	-10.79%	100%

* Asset value = 0.9 x DEC value

Summary

Although there were significant price changes, we only have a 0.79% loss relative to the initial -10%. STONE is currently the best-performing asset, and WOOD is the worst. We will see 😉

Thank you for reading this!

Peter

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