Lately, I've been laughing a bit at how I've been grinding testnet points: at first, I said it was just practice, but everyone defaulted to "I'll definitely exchange for something this time," and as I kept practicing, I started to get hooked. To put it simply, stop-loss should start with the "expectation"—I set a very simple rule for myself: if within a week I find myself calculating whether it's worth taking leave to run scripts, I immediately stop for two days, no tasks, no checking leaderboards, and take my mind out of the points.

The macro side is also quite surreal; when expectations of rate cuts come, the dollar index and risk assets still like to go crazy together, rising and falling together, making people doubt life... So now, my tolerance for "favorable conditions" is even lower: the smoother the wind, the easier it is to mistake practice for certainty.

I just treat myself like a computer backup: the main system is normal work and life, and the testnet is only a backup disk, taking up at most some space, not taking over. The real risk isn't money, but time and attention. That's all for now.