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There hasn’t been much liquidity in the order book these days—limit orders are basically just decoration, and even a single needle can punch out a big fluctuation. To put it bluntly, at times like this, the thing you fear most isn’t failing to buy the bottom in time—it’s getting ground down first. My approach is pretty old-school: cut my position down to a size where I can actually sleep at night, then enter in several small batches and move slowly; make the stop-loss explicit and clearly visible. I’d rather miss the opportunity than stubbornly hold on.
As for the on-chain data tools and tagging systems, they’ve recently been criticized for lagging—some people even say they can mislead. I treat them as references only, not as something I blindly trust.
Either way, survive first, and then talk about bottom-fishing. What I don’t regret is treating the impulse to make quick money as a cost and cutting it off first. For the L2 tasks too: take what you can and leave—no lingering, no hard fight. That’s it for now.