I’m increasingly feeling that whether grid trading/DCA is really “more stable” ultimately comes down to whether you can sleep at night. Making a big, leveraged push sounds great, but you have to accept that the liquidation line/forced-sale “knife” can fall at any moment. All the while, your mind is constantly calculating: whether to add margin, whether to cut losses—waking up once in the middle of the night is already very costly.

Grid trading and DCA are like breaking your emotions into many small gears: when a drawdown comes, you only end up taking a few more bites of your positions. Being more mechanical can actually be more reassuring…

But the twist is this: if you don’t have the patience to review parameters in the first place, or you’re unwilling to admit that you might be careless and change your strategy on a whim, then grid trading will still end up torturing you into insomnia.

Recently, hardware wallets have been out of stock, and phishing links are everywhere. Ironically, I’d rather put “sleep priority” on safety: do fewer frequent trades, don’t click on signatures from unknown sources. Your money may not earn the maximum possible profit, but at least you won’t wake up to find your wallet empty.