I found that my biggest problem with spot trading isn’t that I don’t know how to buy—it’s that I can’t hold on. Futures is even more ridiculous: you hold it, and then liquidation comes along to “educate” you. Later, one plain sentence saved me: don’t treat “wanting to make quick money” as a qualification for being able to stomach drawdowns. Don’t act like a big shot with your position—only the small amount of money you can actually sleep with counts as your position; the rest is just emotions.

Last week’s airdrop season was organized like clocking in for work, and the task platform was anti-bot too, so the points kept grinding at me and made my head hurt. When I got anxious and wanted to speed through the tasks, gas fees shot up and I totally lost my head. My hand trembled, and I even thought about opening a futures contract to chase it and recover… but since I didn’t understand it, I didn’t move. I just set my phone on the table and went to wash a bowl, and when I came back I realized that if I’d chased that needle-like spike, I’d probably have blown up again. Forget it—if it takes longer, then let it take longer. Life matters more than points.