Over the past couple of days, while reviewing previous trading records, I realized that what I tend to get most emotional about isn't spot trading, but when I was buying options: even when my direction was correct, I’d hold on and then lose it all, like a phone battery draining little by little, and in the end I’d be too lazy to trace back to where it went wrong... On the other hand, the seller side earns slowly but their mindset is more like working a job, watching the margin to prevent it from exploding, collecting what’s due, which feels pretty unromantic.

To put it simply, time value mostly eats up the buyer’s patience and hesitation; the market doesn’t need you to be wrong, just to be not quick enough. Sellers take on risk and self-discipline, earning the “money others can’t wait for,” but when a black swan appears, you have to accept it. Now seeing social mining, fan tokens, and that “attention equals mining” concept, I also feel a bit the same: attention is actually your time value, slowly deducted, and the final reward may not be worth the ticket price... Anyway, I’ll follow the process first, and avoid gambling if I can.