Just took another hit. After going back over it, it boils down to two words: should have stopped. That order—I was clearly watching the market depth and felt it was enough, but the moment it came in, I got the urge to “snatch the rhythm.” I set the slippage carelessly. Only after I clicked did I realize the sell orders sitting above were paper-thin. As my fills lifted the price layer by layer, the average price ended up looking so ugly that by the time I wanted to cancel, it was already too late… To put it bluntly, it wasn’t the market setting me up—it was me not stopping, not stopping to watch.

From now on, for order books that swell and shrink like this—up one moment, down the next—I’d rather place it in two slower chunks, or just cancel and re-place orders and wait for it to show its true bottom. Also, lately, around the upgrade of that mainstream public chain, the group chat has been getting spammed nonstop with the question of whether the “ecosystem will migrate,” so I stopped refreshing it. I’ll just watch whether the real on-chain trades and liquidity actually move. No matter how heated the talk is, it doesn’t help.

That’s it for now—on rainy days, I’ll keep being the one who cancels orders.