I recently started tracking my stop-loss levels—not doing any spreadsheets, just writing one sentence in my phone notes: “At this price level, before this point I must cut.” I found that executing the orders I pre-wrote isn’t nearly as painful. Instead, when I keep dragging and not cutting, I end up furious and anxious—then I end up cutting at an even lower price, and I even lose out on the funding fees for several more days. Plainly put, stop-loss is like a breakup: writing it down first saves you interest.

By the way, I’ve noticed that the new L1/L2 projects are now chasing incentives to pull TVL. Old hands have long had a reflexive “mine first, sell later.” After a gust of activity on-chain, an inflated TVL is useless. In two months, when you check again, how many real people will still be there? Anyway, I’m getting more and more reluctant to chase setups like this—unless it can prove that its fee switch actually has a story. Keeping the habit of recording my stop-losses at least lets me lose money clearly and transparently. No choosing sides—only cash.