These past couple of days, meme culture has been as lively as Chinese New Year. I keep staring at the mempool—every time I refresh, it’s a whole bunch of trades sprinting in the same direction. Getting swept up emotionally is real… and once you’re swept up, it’s also real easy to get taught by the market. To put it simply, when you believe in a narrative, it’s like faith; when you don’t, it turns into a liquidity trap…

I’ve set a pretty old-school rule for myself: the moment I enter, I’ve already thought through my stop-loss—otherwise, don’t enter. If I end up losing, I’ll treat it as tuition. Don’t stubbornly hold on hoping that “it will come back.”

Especially now, everyone’s complaining about validators/MEV taking profits, and that the ordering isn’t fair—retail traders’ orders get squeezed a bit, and their mindset collapses right away. That’s exactly why I’m even less willing to hand my fate over to luck.

Anyway, I no longer believe in “hold on to it with instinct and you’ll double.” First, just stay alive.