When the liquidation line was three steps away, my hands were already trembling.

I had written a small script to monitor the health factor, with the threshold set 15% earlier than the platform alert. Last week, a certain coin experienced a sudden price spike, and the script arrived three minutes before the official email—those three minutes were enough for me to manually top up my margin rather than having my position taken by a bot.

Now, news about staking unlocks is flying everywhere, and selling pressure anxiety spreads faster than a virus. My approach is pretty simple: no matter how scary the unlock calendar looks, I first bring my loan-to-value ratio down to a number I can sleep on. For now, that's it.

If I could keep only one habit, it would be that 15% earlier alert. What I saved wasn't money, but the heartbeats of not having to stare at my phone in the middle of the night.