Stop-loss really is a bit like a breakup—dragging it out without saying it outright. The thorn in your heart keeps getting stuck deeper and deeper, and you also have to pay “interest”—your focus, your sleep, and the nerve for the next move. Later I realized that my biggest loss wasn’t just those one or two bearish candles; it was that I kept thinking, “What if it rebounds?” By then, the momentum had already leaked away from on-chain trading activity, and I was still stubbornly holding on.

Recently, the community has been arguing again about whether privacy coins and coin-mixing actually count as crossing the line. To put it plainly, once the compliance boundary changes its face, the narrative isn’t worth anything anymore… I still stick to my old rules: when the take-profit line is reached, I leave; when the stop-loss line is touched, I admit it. A calm exit is actually the best move.