The Ethereum long position from last week hit the stop loss, and honestly, it was pretty frustrating. Looking back, the main issue was using too much leverage—I’ve always known this is a problem, but sometimes I just can’t resist.

Lesson learned. I’ve entered another ETH long now, but this time I’m being smarter—putting in the full margin so at least I won’t get woken up by a liquidation alert in the middle of the night. Planning to hold until around mid-month, more or less when the Fed’s rate cut expectations start to build up, and then see how things look.

Leverage really is a double-edged sword. Use it well and you make a killing; use it wrong and you get nothing. This time I’m playing it safe—let’s see if I can recover the previous losses.