Just looked back at a trade from yesterday that lost in a really weird way.

I placed a limit order thinking it would be solid, but I hit a depth gap and the slippage immediately lifted it by 0.6%.
I originally wanted to catch a small rebound, but between the fees and the slippage, it wiped out all the profit…
Plainly, it was just that I didn’t get the order timing right—the liquidity on the book was as thin as paper; one touch and it breaks.

Lately I’ve been seeing a bunch of people interpret ETF fund flows alongside risk appetite in the US stock market, making it seem like crypto’s rises and falls depend entirely on external sentiment.
Anyway, the more I look, the more I feel: don’t confuse complexity with professionalism. Sometimes trading loses because of “overthinking.”

Later, I treated complexity like an enemy—check whether on-chain net inflows are stable first, then place the trade. Even staying in cash is stronger than blindly charging in.