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This morning, the traffic was a bit annoying, and the coffee had cooled down, suddenly I thought of trading: a quick dart like rushing for the lane, it's exciting but your heartbeat races too; grid/DCA is like patiently waiting in line, slower but at least it doesn't affect sleep much.
I personally prefer the macro approach: whether liquidity is being withdrawn or not, whether interest rates are easing or not, and where risk appetite is positioned. When the overall environment isn't cooperating, a hard dart basically means using emotions as logic, making it hard to sleep and easily making worse decisions by trying to compensate. Conversely, the drawbacks of DCA/grid are also quite obvious; when the market is truly one-sided, you'll feel like "why is it still slowly moving?"
Recently, the controversy over staking, shared security, and yield stacking—those "matryoshka" strategies—are the same. The yields look attractive, but if you ask yourself: if this thing fluctuates or the rules change, can I sleep peacefully at night? Anyway, for me, only strategies that let me sleep well are worthy of holding long-term. That's all for now.