Stop-loss is really like a breakup: you keep dragging on without deleting contacts, staring at the charts every day, searching for “one more chance.” In the end, it’s the trading fees plus the funding rate, slowly grinding people down—until they’re gone. Recently, the rates have swung to extremes again, and the group is arguing like a debate: should we reverse, or keep squeezing the bubble? To be blunt, I don’t really know either. But I do know that if I hesitate, I turn the loss into a belief, and finally even my execution gets distorted.

I need to be reminded: if you’re wrong, cut according to the plan—don’t treat “wait a bit longer” as a strategy. Admitting you’re wrong early may not be dignified, but it saves on interest, saves on stress, and also preserves the little bit of low-latency calm in me.