I was just about to get the itch to chase the rally, and when the alarm went off, I still didn’t get up—I reached for the button to add more. Later, staring at that stack of pending trades, I thought: Did I really get new information, or did that single green bar on the K-line poke my emotions? To put it plainly, someone who truly has information wouldn’t place orders based on a feeling like “it’s too late.”

Recently, everyone’s been at it again—complaining that validators are eating too much, that MEV is front-running, and that ordering is unfair. I’m annoyed too, but the more it’s like this, the less you should let yourself get swept up. You think you’re chasing the trend, but in reality you might just be getting led around by other people’s queue order. Then you pay tuition in the form of slippage plus fees from failed trades. Anyway, my current approach is pretty “plain and simple”: set the position button aside first, take a look at whether on-chain transactions are acting all over the place. If my heartbeat is crazier than my nonce, then I just call it off for now.