I just pulled up a screenshot of the grid trading profits, took a look, and then quietly closed it. Honestly, DCA is like setting an alarm—buy a little when the time comes. No need to stare at the charts; you can sleep at night. Going all-in, though, is a different story: the moment you enter, your heart starts racing, and for the next few days it’s just repeatedly refreshing the candlesticks—you can’t even sleep soundly. Lately, with macro conditions shifting again and again, rate-cut expectations and the U.S. Dollar Index have been playing ping-pong, and risk assets have been shaking right along. The more this happens, the more I feel the word “stop” is pretty useful—stop, stop to observe, stop refreshing.

The advantage of a grid is that once you set the range, it just keeps turning on its own, and you go do what you’re supposed to do. In any case, as a kind of technical bystander, I still prefer the pace of slowly sketching things out rather than hard-fighting the market—I make peace with myself instead.