To be honest, seeing screenshots of others being liquidated recently gives me chills... Many times it's not that your direction is wrong, but that the oracle feed price was slow. When the market drops sharply, your collateral ratio is actually already at a dangerous level, but the system hasn't updated the price yet. By the time it reacts, it just liquidates you based on the "latest price," and there's no window to add margin, which is quite frustrating.

I'm also not sure if everyone has been talking about rate cuts expectations lately, or if the US dollar index has caused risk assets to go haywire together, making volatility more frequent. Anyway, when playing with leverage in such times, you really need a big safety cushion. My approach is a bit more conservative: smaller positions, avoid pushing the collateral ratio to the limit, and prefer to earn less while waiting for things to slowly move... After all, a liquidation wipes out the small gains saved up earlier, making it all pointless.