Just now my phone popped up a red dot again, I thought it was some big opportunity, but when I clicked in, it was a reminder of my failed order from last week when I was feeling confident... Honestly, I was just too impatient. That time, seeing the candlestick move quickly, I directly placed a market order, but the slippage caught me off guard: the depth was actually very thin, the front orders were eaten up and then it just swept down (or up), I even split my orders into two, which was like raising or lowering my own price, messing up the rhythm.

Looking back, there’s nothing too complicated: don’t be fooled by those few candlesticks jumping around, first glance at the order book depth, better to split into smaller orders, use limit orders slowly, or just not trade at all. Recently, the community has been arguing about privacy coins, mixing coins, and the compliance boundaries, I also find it overwhelming… The more they argue, the more I realize that the only thing I can control is placing orders, everything else, after the argument, still has to be endured. For now, just keep doing boring dollar-cost averaging and rebalancing.