I’m increasingly feeling that grid/DCA isn’t “smarter”—it’s just more suited to people who want to sleep. If you’re the kind who goes all in and still has to watch the charts, monitor the groups, and stare at candlesticks (K-lines) for comfort, then let’s be honest: you’re not trading—you’re just changing the way you channel your anxiety. On the flip side, don’t mythologize grid either. If the parameters aren’t calculated well or the range is drawn inaccurately, you’ll still get slapped back and forth; earning a bit in trading fees isn’t enough to make up for the impermanent loss.

Recently, I’ve also gotten sick of the Layer2 arguments comparing TPS, fees, and ecosystem subsidy giveaways. The more they hype it, the more I don’t dare to go all in—who knows, once the subsidies stop, liquidity may run away faster than I can withdraw. Anyway, my own standard is simple: only a strategy that lets me not crawl out of bed in the middle of the night to check my phone deserves to be called a strategy. For now, I’ll recalculate the impermanent loss (IL) for the pool I’m holding, and as a bonus, narrow the grid range a bit.