A friend of mine recently approached me, saying he had 5000U idle and wanted to double it during this market cycle. I looked at his position screenshot, and it was full of various hot-sounding altcoins and news coins. I only said two words: Don’t move.

He was unhappy: "The market is so good, and you just wait like that?"

"Do you think if you don’t enter now, you’ll miss out forever?" I countered. He was silent for a second and nodded.

I smiled bitterly: "That’s your problem. It’s not missing an opportunity; it’s falling into the trap of 'frequent trading.' I used to be like that—every day I wouldn’t trade, I’d start to itch, and as a result, my account shrank from several ten thousand U to just a few hundred."

Later, I set a strict rule for myself: at most two trades per week, and I would endure even if the market skyrocketed in the meantime.

The first time I strictly followed this rule, I waited a full 4 days. It wasn’t until SOL hit a key support level and bottomed out that I took action. The result was a 1100U profit in 6 hours. At that moment, I finally realized that my previous losses weren’t due to lack of skill but because I was too impatient.

**Why is frequent trading suicide?**

A simple calculation makes it clear. Fees, slippage, opportunity costs during cooling-off periods—these add up enough to eat away a large chunk of your profits. Not to mention the psychological fluctuations caused by frequent trading—watching the screen change every moment makes it easy to make deadly decisions like chasing highs and selling lows. Making quick profits and rushing to run, losing and stubbornly holding without stop-loss—ultimately, all profits are surrendered to trading fees and slippage.

Instead of this, it’s better to cut down on trading frequency and only trade what you can clearly see in the market.

**My current approach is like this**

70% of my core holdings are all in mainstream coins like BTC and ETH—they are my safety anchors. The remaining 30% of flexible funds are used to find truly promising opportunities. But even within this 30%, no single coin exceeds 5% of the total capital—absolutely no full position betting on anything.

Before opening a trade, I follow a process: Why do I want to enter? What’s the target price? What’s the stop-loss? This isn’t just theoretical; I write it down, tangible and visible. Many people get caught up in the phrase "just playing around."

SOL has indeed risen quite well this wave, but I won’t go all-in just because I’m optimistic. Opportunities will always come, but keeping the account alive is the top priority.