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Recently, I've been feeling a bit emotional about options trading: Buyers are actually racing against time, if you don't move, you lose; if the market isn't fast enough, the time value slowly eats away at you every day; Sellers are more like collecting "rent," mostly benefiting from the buyer's hesitation and procrastination. But once a big wave hits, they have to give back what they collected earlier, even taking a loss. With small funds, I now prefer to buy less, choose clear event windows, and accept defeat when it expires, rather than stubbornly holding on. By the way, the main public blockchain is upgrading/maintaining these days, and the group is guessing whether projects will migrate. Honestly, this kind of uncertainty is best for amplifying time value; buyers are more anxious, sellers look comfortable but shouldn't get cocky. Forget it, to put it plainly: if the price stays flat, buyers get eaten; if there's a big surge or plunge, sellers get hit. I’ll stick to the rules, and even if I lose, I won’t get carried away.