Basically, unrealized losses are noisier than unrealized gains because the brain defaults to treating the "part that hasn't lost money" as its own, and drawdowns feel like they are being forcibly taken away; whereas unrealized gains are always seen as "given by the market," not counted until they are realized, so there's less excitement and it's easier to let go. The result is: when making a profit, I can sleep peacefully, but when losing, I keep replaying in my mind, looking for reasons, and thinking about how to recover.



Now I try to cut my positions into small pieces and plan ahead: when to stop loss / when not to look at the market, otherwise just glancing at it in the middle of the night makes me start thinking "should I add more, should I cut..." Anyway, the more I watch, the more likely I am to do stupid things.

Recently, the modularization and the DA layer narrative, developers are pretty excited, and it's normal for users to be confused; the more this "hard to understand but seems important" stage, the easier it is to amplify emotions, and unrealized losses become more like nightmares. For now, that's it, I'll check the unlock schedule tomorrow.
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