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I’m just someone who watches contracts every day. Position management, honestly, boils down to one line: don’t turn “wanting to make quick money” into a reason for your position. If you can’t hold spot, it’s usually because once your position gets big, you start fixating on the candlestick chart like you’re monitoring your own heartbeat. With futures, it’s even more straightforward: position size is a magnifier of emotions. My method is pretty old-school: first set how much you can lose at most (the kind you can still sleep through), then work backward to determine the position size—no matter how the price shakes, I don’t change that upper limit.
Lately, speculation about testnet incentives, points, and whether the mainnet will issue tokens has been heating up again. I’ll go interact too, but only with a little bit—just enough to “pay tuition” and take a small price for trial and error. Don’t treat expectations as certainty. If I really want to charge in, don’t use leverage to give yourself courage— the red line is that kind of position that would be wiped out from a single reverse move; it doesn’t even count as a strategy. That’s it for now.