November 29th, another day of being schooled by the market.

Woke up in the morning and checked BNB first. Opened a long at 889, set the stop loss at 881. In the blink of an eye, it was gone. Looked again and saw it closed at 880, straight -118U. My mindset was a bit wrecked.

Calmed down and started over—

First BNB trade: long at 878, out at 880, small gain of 12U, got a bit of confidence back. Then I eyed ZEC, went long at 463, but gave up only after it dropped to 444, -127U. Unwilling to give up, I reversed and went short at 463, but it pumped to 472 before I cut it, lost another 176U. By this time, I was already on 30x leverage and got carried away. Should have waited for the top to short—mistake.

Did the math, and I was back to -409U, exactly the same as when I started yesterday.

Took a deep breath and adjusted my strategy.

Fourth trade, ZEC short at 470, closed at 467, high leverage, got +198U. Felt a little recovery.

Then a series of small swings:
Long at 465, out at 467, +58U.
Short at 468, out at 467, +40U.
Another short at 468, out at 467, +51U.
At this point, my mindset stabilized, so I decisively reduced leverage from 25x to 10x.

Then it was all about rhythm trading:
Short at 468, closed at 466, +26U
Short at 469, closed at 467, +26U
Long at 465, out at 468, +33U
Short at 468, closed at 466, +18U
Short at 467, closed at 466, +7U
Short at 469, closed at 467, +34U

Inserted a BNB long at 879, closed at 882, +37U.

At this point, I was already +119U for the day, and had recovered all of yesterday's losses.

Kept chasing ZEC:
Short at 469, closed at 468, +12U
Short at 472, closed at 471, +35U (felt the uptrend here, planned to close at 468 but switched to 471 and ran—holding even for a second felt risky)

Tried another BNB long at 880, closed at 880, +9U.

Then took a big hit—the 18th trade, shorted ZEC, wanted to enter at 470 but ended up chasing an average entry at 464, closed at 460 for a straight -199U.

Rushed to recover, long at 458, out at 459, +22U.

Final tally: today -2U, with 1.5U deducted for fees.

Summary of this round: worst point was down -338U, that last BNB long was a 15x leverage add of 1000U, raised the average price and closed, out at -200U. Fought back the next four trades with 15x leverage as well.

Final result: -3.5U

Also, found out way too late that USDC has no transaction fees—could have saved at least five or six thousand U! Regret is killing me.

(Trading records for November were previously only in my notes, now posting some actual trading data)