XMR was $350 just a week ago.
Damn...
I am a newbie small time miner and had mined a little less than 3 XMR by early February 2018.
My mined XMR had the following price at time of them being sent from Nanopool to my XMR wallet:
XMR 1: 2017-12-30 - $306 USD
XMR 2: 2018-01-18 - $324 USD
XMR 3: 2018-02-05 - $167 USD
The $167 price for one XMR in early February was a wake up call for me in that the value of XMR which was at $548 just this January 8th could fall so far so fast.
I made the decision at that time to reduce my mining hardware costs by making a profit on selling the two Vega 56's that I had purchased at MSRP of $399 or $810 total with shipping in early November. I sold the two Vega 56's on eBay and after all fees/shipping/insurance produced a profit of $600 above my purchase price. I also made $130 in buying and reselling a new Radeon 64 FE. I also have two new GTX 1070 Ti's coming that I will resell and should clear about $190 in profit.
I also decided to sell my three XMR when/if the value got back into the $300+ range.
On February 22nd I transferred 0.496 XMR from My Monero wallet to Kraken. This was my first use of Kracken so I wanted to do a small transfer first. The transfer went fine. 0.026 XMR was taken from My Monero wallet as a fee (5.2%) for the transfer.
On February 23rd I transferred 2.478 XMR from My Monero wallet to Kraken. 0.028 XMR was taken from My Monero wallet as a fee (1.1%) for the transfer.
The end result was 2.92 XMR on Kracken and that it is better to do larger transfers to reduce My Monero wallet fees.
On March 2nd I traded the 2.92 XMR to 0.08889 BTC on Kracken at market price. Kracken had taken 0.0002317 BTC from the trade for it's fee.
I then sent 0.08889 BTC to Coinbase. Kracken took 0.0005 BTC for the transfer fee which resulted in 0.08839 BTC in my Coinbase wallet.
I then sold 0.08 BTC on Coinbase and after the $13.05 USD Coinbase fee I deposited $862 into my bank account. I kept 0.00839 BTC for other purchases that I use BTC for.
I am now comfortable in the cost of hardware that I use to mine XMR. Four Dell T3610 workstations that I paid $400 total. The Supermicro dual Opteron 6348 server that only cost me $253. The 15 Quadro 600's at about $16 each, two GTX 750 Ti's for $54 total and seven GTX 750's that cost me $40 each.
Even If the crypto market crashed and burned I would be able to recover and probable even make a profit selling the above hardware.
By the way I highly recommend this free software for tracking all crypro transactions:
https://cointracking.info
It makes doing my taxes so easy.
It also was an eye opener in that all those fees do eat into what you actually get when after you mined a coin and want to cash it out.
Summery of fees:
XMR-Stak: 2% in Hashrate
Nanopool: 1% in XMR
My Monero Wallet XMR withdrawal: 1.1% - 5.2% in XMR
Kracken trade XMR to BTC : 2.6% in BTC
Kracken BTC wallet withdrawal: 0.6% in BTC
Coinbase Sell BTC to USD: 1.5% in USD