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I can't hold onto spot positions, and I keep thinking about adding leverage on futures, resulting in either being forced to sell or getting liquidated… Later, I tell myself a simple truth: don’t fight the market, first figure out how long you can survive. Before placing an order, set a maximum loss (as a percentage of the account), and when you hit that, close it, even if it recovers later. Smaller positions actually help me hold on longer and prevent being scared off by a few needle-like drops.
Recently, the debate over pledging that "shared security + compounded returns" has been quite intense. Watching it, I’m even less willing to stack risks on top of risks. Honestly, the returns look tempting, but with permissions, upgrades, and liquidation chains all tangled, it’s a chain reaction if something goes wrong. Anyway, I’d rather earn a little less now, write the rules into a script, and not mess with them manually. That’s how I’ll do it for now.