I just accidentally opened another trade with my own clumsy hands, and the slippage really screwed me over. I originally wanted to place a limit order and take it slowly, but the market whipped around, and it went straight to a market order fill—then I ate a bottomless amount of slippage… To be blunt, it’s still because I was too impatient; I didn’t wait for the depth to come back before charging in. When liquidity is poor, don’t mess around, especially late at night—whatever little depth you have isn’t enough to fill the gaps.

What I fear most isn’t losing money, but realizing after I’ve already lost that I didn’t even get the order timing right. I clearly thought I’d wait for a pullback before entering, but once the price started moving fast, my brain ran after it too—how could I remember any kind of scaling-in plan? Sigh… every time I crash, I’m rolling around in the same hole.

I saw people in the group arguing again about privacy coins, mixer compliance, and such. Anyway, as a small retail trader, I can’t really tell where the boundaries are, so I’ll just stay out of it for now—don’t let some day some protocol gets taken down and I’m still, stupidly, sitting there with orders on it. Last piece of advice: keep your position size light—really light—especially when liquidity is poor.