Recently, I realized when looking at options that, frankly, time value is just slowly "eating" away at the buyer's patience. You're buying the probability, and if you do nothing for a day, it's like the ticket in your hand is fading; the seller, on the other hand, is comfortable, collecting that fading fee while lying down, but only if they don't encounter a sudden spike. Last night, I was watching a certain contract's IV suddenly spike, checked the on-chain funding rate, and it didn't match up, which made me even more uneasy...

Now everyone is quick to say "wait for confirmation," but cross-chain bridges getting hacked, or oracles acting up and reporting outrageous prices, really mess up the rhythm. Can the buyer afford to wait? By the time confirmation is done, the time value has already been deducted from you. The seller shouldn't be too confident either; if an abnormal event hits, they could lose much more than they collected. Anyway, now I write my stop-loss/hedge plans in my checklist before placing an order, or else I end up wanting to gamble but also afraid to die, which is the most exhausting.