My most intuitive feeling about options right now is that: this thing called time value is constantly “harvesting” the buyer’s patience, feeding the seller’s calm. The buyer comes in right away and makes a bet with themselves—“it has to move in the next couple of days.” But when the market just drags on, the premium gets eaten away little by little by time. Even if the direction is right, you can still lose in an incredibly frustrating way. The seller, meanwhile, is more like collecting rent—worst of all is getting hit by a sudden burst of damage.

Why am I calmer? Plainly put, I’ve trained myself with a habit: for any buyer position, at the moment I place the order, I’ll write down a “latest surrender time.” When that time comes, I don’t keep lingering or fussing about it anymore—no matter how strongly I feel that something is about to happen… After all, I don’t trust my brain in the moment. I’ll also glance at the authorization and signature pop-ups one more time. During the airdrop season, the task platform is constantly running anti-bot (anti-witch) checks for points; scraping rewards feels like work. The more exhausted people get, the easier it is to click the wrong link or sign the wrong thing. For now, I’d rather make a little less than hand over my private key and my peace of mind together.