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The biggest fear in lending and borrowing is that the liquidation line is too close and still pretending nothing's wrong. My experience is: when you're three steps away from the red line, don't think about holding on, stop and don't add to your position, recalibrate your position size and collateral ratio, and if you can add some margin, do it. But more often, it's better to just reduce your position size and lower your leverage—better to earn less than to get kicked out by the system with a single blow. Honestly, liquidation isn't just losing a little; it's losing all your future operational space.
Recently, I've been watching the kind of inflation + studio-driven "prosperity" in blockchain games—once it collapses, it's a spiral of token prices. Lending and borrowing act more like an amplifier in that scenario; when emotions run high, people tend to retaliate by increasing leverage... Anyway, now I see the collateral ratio starting to get uncomfortable, I’ll withdraw a bit first, just to keep some breathing room.
That's all for now. I'm going to push the liquidation lines of these two loans a bit further out.