Yesterday, I couldn't help myself and went into a pool that looked like it had decent depth. In the end, the slippage ate up half a percent of my profit. Damn—clearly I set a 5% limit, but when I placed the order, I got greedy by just a tiny bit, hit confirm before the liquidity had time to settle back. Looking back, it wasn’t really the slippage itself—it was my timing that was off. That minute, the order book was as chaotic as a sieve, and I insisted on squeezing in as the one to fill the hole.

Honestly, now the privacy-coin debate is getting heated. Do mixing services count as tools or as a minefield? In the group, both sides are dug in hard. My take is: no matter how you see it, if you can’t even control slippage properly at the trading level, then talking about privacy protection is just a later conversation. First figure out the most basic depth and the right order-submission rhythm. Otherwise, even if you set more reminders, it’s only giving yourself the illusion that “I probably tried.”

Anyway, after setting limits, I’ve become even more anxious. I set the order, but while watching the charts, I still can’t resist the itch to adjust it. In my head, there’s always this voice saying, “Wait a bit—maybe you can make more.” In the end, it wasn’t the market that truly caused me to lose money. It was my own little greed and restlessness. Forget it—let’s leave it at that. I get the lesson, but truly doing it is still ten cuts of the hand away.