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These days, people are talking again about whether going all-in on a trade is fun or not. To put it simply, what’s enjoyable is the adrenaline, and what’s miserable is the loss of sleep. I personally lean more toward the grid/DCA setup: not because it’s “stable,” but because I’ve been watching the path and the routing for so long that I really know how tiny things—like, “you think the trade has executed, but in the middle you got squeezed through”—can magnify your emotions. When you go all-in, you start refreshing over and over, and in your head it’s all slippage, squeeze mechanics, and the order-matching sequence—so you can’t sleep at all.
At least with grid/DCA, it helps break decisions into smaller pieces: buy a bit today, check again tomorrow. Splitting up the path also makes it easier to troubleshoot where it’s taking a bite out of your edge. There are downsides, too. When the market really starts moving, you might start to feel impatient… but at least your mindset isn’t as if you’re being tugged along like you’re on a string.
Also, lately I don’t buy into that whole “attention is mining” thing from social mining and fan tokens anymore. Attention can get tiring, and in the end it feels more like mutual depletion. Anyway, I’d rather save my attention and use it to track the trading paths. That’s it for now.