I was “educated” by the “attention economy” again: whenever the hot topic changes, I get an itchy urge to jump in. Even if I don’t really understand it, I still want to hop on just to get in on it—then the result is either chasing the rally high or getting slapped in the face back and forth. In plain terms, it’s not that I lack talent; it’s that my habits are too poor.

Now I’ve set a few hard rules for myself: when I see trending searches, I don’t move first—I go check whether the funding rate and the spot-futures basis are going crazy at the same time. If everyone is shouting and the data is also running hot, I’ll treat it as a reminder to myself: “Don’t get carried away.” Like these past couple of days, around some mainstream blockchain upgrade/maintenance, everyone in the group was guessing whether the ecosystem would migrate—so I just log it. I don’t bet on the storyline, and I wait until the dust settles to see whether the on-chain funds keep flowing over.

Getting liquidated repeatedly is often because I treat “what I see” as “what I should do”… First, make “not trading” the default option, and just rely on long-term habit to hold back impulses.