Grid trading or DCA—honestly, it’s all about giving yourself a little psychological massage. I tried grid trading before. I woke up in the middle of the night wanting to check my phone, and found the price was just one tick below the grid line. That “itch” was more uncomfortable than actually losing money. DCA is better, but it’s too slow. My personality can’t wait, and in the end it turned into “fake DCA”—I add manually when it drops a bit, but when it drops a lot, I get too scared.

In this market right now, they hype AI Agent to the sky and automated trading sounds great, but even I have to check a contract authorization over and over again. What I’m afraid of is “automatic” automatically wiping me out. The narrative is the narrative; sleep money is sleep money—two different things.

What I regret isn’t losing on a certain all-in trade, but the fact that I clearly set a stop-loss and then, out of impulse, canceled it. Whether you can sleep or not doesn’t have much to do with the strategy, but a lot to do with whether you can control your own hands. That’s it for now—tonight I’ll try not to open any positions.