Right before bed, I did a quick scroll and suddenly thought of something.

I followed the trend and grabbed testnet points for a few months, and now more and more people are starting to calculate “expected returns”—to be honest, it’s starting to feel a bit off. It used to be practice: if you lost, then you just took it as learning. But now, if you treat it as an “expected return” you must make, your mindset changes—and it’s basically no different from trading with real money.

Recently, I set a rule for myself: if I’m halfway through grinding on the testnet and I start getting anxious about “wasting time” or “what if it’s all for nothing,” then I stop. Plainly put, this is just practice—don’t let it turn into a negative number burden in your account. The topic about ETF fund flows being linked with the U.S. stock market has been pretty hot lately, but I think fund flows aren’t as real as the flow of emotions— the more anxious you are, the easier you are to get taken advantage of.

Anyway, practice is practice, and expectations belong to your account—don’t mix them together. Keep that boundary first, and then talk about returns.