Today the funding rate started to spike again, and I really feel itchy, but I still gave myself a "pause."

In the past, I would rush to take the opposite side, thinking that places with a lot of people must have shadow lines to pick up, but often what I picked up was my own stop loss...
To put it simply, during extreme rates, whether the direction is right or not doesn't matter; volatility will first drain your emotions.

Recently, there's been more noise about rate cut expectations, the US dollar index, and how risk assets are moving up and down together.
Listening to that makes me want to pause and watch for a while: macro stuff is quite convenient to explain candlestick patterns, but using it to place orders feels a bit mysterious.
Tonight, I have two strategies: either trade with a small position and tighter stop-loss, and run after catching a shadow line;
or simply stop trading and wait for the funding rate to return to normal.
Anyway, I can work overtime on review, but I can't spend money on it.