Are you trolling? You get charged the 250 gold initially when you click find battle as well
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He's a th6 (saving up for th7) so he should probably be more like silver 2 or 3.
Yes it is worth it to hit next as you are charged the 250 for the first search as well (end battle doesn't save you money). Don't be afraid to hit next 10,20,30 times. Look for bases with lots of gold (can't remember th6 but 150k is probably a decent starting point) that you can get. Look for collectors around the base and you can see if they are full by the little box beside the gold mine (looks overflowing), or the pumps with the pink elixir inside being full.
Since the most you can lose in one raid is 200k of gold look to raid alot more than this in one session.
For raiding rate many people do raid more the 1M gold in an hour without spending any gems just train quick armies (barbs+archers) and take your time finding a good base.
Simple, you go out and take it from others......
Go find bases with good gold and raid, raid, raid!
Someone raided your loot? Revenge and get it back.
Maybe you should stop logging out in-between raids? I suppose that's what you're doing?
find active clan.
then loot and chat while waiting for troops cooking.
That way, you won't be raided often.