Everyone in my social circle is posting all sorts of cat and dog coins and how many times they’ve surged. Honestly, I’m a bit itchy to jump in, but thinking about my previous couple of times chasing the top and getting trapped, I decided to hold back. The more lively it gets, the easier it is to lose your head. My approach now is to set a floor for myself first: before entering, I set my stop-loss, and even if it skyrockets afterward, I won’t regret it—because missing out is better than getting buried.

The U.S. dollar index has been swinging wildly lately. Rate-cut expectations keep changing, tying macro and micro together, and risk assets don’t have any consistent direction. Anyway, I don’t buy those narratives that say “this time is different.” Every time there’s a pump, there’s a new story behind it, but in the end, it’s still retail traders who get washed out. I had my grid orders sitting there without managing them, and the other day I got a single needle that pierced through my stop-loss and got me kicked out. Honestly, I’m speechless.

For now, that’s it. Less messing around is how you make money.