These days, I was "educated" again by the "attention economy": when a hot topic switches, the timeline is full of new narratives, and I get itchy to chase after it. As a result, many times it's not that the project is particularly strong, but that someone in the trading path has already considered you as liquidity... I’ve recently forced myself to look more at on-chain activity: the same addresses repeatedly entering and exiting, slippage suddenly increasing, abnormal gas spikes—it's basically the "someone is eating the meat" pattern. Don’t ask me how I know.

Even the saliva-fueled disputes over NFT royalties are quite typical, everyone arguing about creator income vs secondary liquidity, and as the argument heats up, emotions get carried away. Then you’re likely to buy in at the hottest moment. To put it simply, the hot topic itself isn’t necessarily a trap, but once your rhythm is disrupted, it’s easy to get repeatedly cut.

Next time, I’ll set a cooling-off period first: see a hot word, don’t act immediately, wait a day before deciding whether to participate. Do you have any methods to prevent yourself from being driven by the timeline?