Maybe you are raising to hard with your premium holdings. You mentioned raising 5$ pre with QQ and I do hope you didn't make that raise FI. If you are not having any action it could just be bad luck over the run of one single day. Another thing (though I wont judge you for starting out safe); I would recommend you to jump t0 50$ NL right away. The play here is not really much better and playing 4-8$ Limit you should be more than enough bankrolled to play at these stakes.