Paid my tuition again last night—honestly, I’m fed up. I could clearly see the depth was decent, but once my head got hot, I rushed in… and the slippage was practically like Sinopec stomping on the gas pedal. I can only say: when liquidity is bad, the order-placing tempo matters more than any indicator. With buy 1 and sell 1 orders hanging there sparsely—if your hands are fast but your brain is slow, the money just disappears.

When I looked back, the fear and greed index had already been warning that things were overheated, but at the time I still thought, “This time is different.” Yeah, human nature is hard to change; quant still feels so good.

One more thing: lately I’ve been seeing news everywhere about hardware wallets being out of stock—did everyone’s security awareness suddenly turn on all at once? That’s good, but don’t just buy hardware and forget about preventing phishing. I saw someone in a group post a “claim airdrop” link, and they tapped it. I got scared and quickly screenshotted it, then posted it in the group to berate people. When chasing pumps, my brain moves slower than my hands; when I lose money, cursing the project team is still worse than just cursing my own recklessness.

That’s it for now—I’m going to count how much U I still have left to lose.