Recently, this frustrating market that neither rises nor falls requires you to keep your hands off. Because it will not make you close all positions and realize losses immediately, nor will it allow you to hold onto valuable assets with peace of mind. You will be constantly worn down, continuously tempted, and make mistakes repeatedly.

What truly causes the loss of principal is not the market, but the flaws of human nature:
Greed: Chasing a little rise, wanting to capture every wave, resulting in frequently buying high and selling low.
Jealousy: seeing others seize the hot spots and rise sharply, even if it has already risen several times, still can't help but follow the trend.
Reluctance: trapped and not cutting losses, regretting after switching, rushing to chase the rise, always living in the frustration of missing out.

And these emotions, once layered, will ultimately lead you to the same place:
Placing bets recklessly outside of one's circle of competence.

You start buying coins that you don't understand at all, you believe in the hot topics pushed by strangers, you FOMO into a market that you are not familiar with and have no idea about the distribution of positions, and then, in one short-term operation after another, you slowly evaporate your principal.

So, the most important ability at this stage is not operation, but restraint.

Restrain your impulses: Don't trade out of boredom, a sideways market is not a casino.
Stick to the fields you are familiar with: only buy what you know, what you can't be more familiar with.

Control frequency: operate less, research more, wait for the next real structural opportunity to appear.
Only those who can maintain their positions in the grinding market deserve to reap the rewards during the main rising wave.