I know this is a topic that has come up before in the past and I have researched it heavily. I understand how the auto-exchange works as well as the delay required to trade into your desired currency.
This month I will be performing some tests to confirm the actual payout rates over 2 week periods and I wanted to make a post to document the results but also ask others if they have similar data they can share.
- Week 1-2 will be done with AM mining a single currency (ZEC) and not auto-converting anything.
- Weeks 3-4 will be done with AM doing profit switching within Equihash only on the Nvidia cards and sticking with ETH on the AMD cards, auto converting to ZEC.
- Weeks 5-6 will be done with AM doing profit switching with Equihash, Skein, Lyra2RE, Lyra2REv2, Lyra2z and Neoscript, auto converting to ZEC
I will auto-transfer ZEC to a wallet at set amounts and track the date, amount, exchange rate and value of each transfer. In between tests I'll likely set the miners to mine smaller alt coins so that MPH can finish exchanging all of the outstanding coins, essentially flushing the system to ensure that the next test does get some residual revenue from the previous one.
I have to assume that I am not the first person to think of this and perform such a test so I'd be keen to see any spreadsheets that anyone has prepared for this already as I really want to see how different the actual returns are vs what AM estimates in it's daily totals. Once I have this information I'll likely install nicehash and betterhash and see how the payouts compare there to what they estimate and to what AM's payouts actually are.