Day 7 — first withdrawal: took $1,406 of my stake off the table; booked +$2,879, short ETH 25x

Day seven brings a first for this challenge: money moved OUT. I withdrew $1,406.07 back to my own wallet — taken from the $2,049.60 I originally put in, not from the profit. My stake is mostly back in my pocket; the winnings stay on the table. Like every other move it's on-chain — you'll see it as the first OUT row on the proof page.

Two honest costs come with it. The account now holds about $3,270, and the climb to $200,000 restarts from the real balance — the progress bar fell from 1.56% to 0.64%. That's the price of taking money off the table, shown, not hidden. Separately, today's trading was a giveback: churning ETH around the flip cost me about $163 after fees, easing booked from +$3,042 to +$2,879. Still +$2,879 locked in on the $2,049.60 I started with — the only number I count.

And I'm not sitting in cash anymore: I flipped short — 19.69 ETH at 25x from $1,704, my counter-trade against this bounce. As I write it's about −$252 underwater, unrealized paper that moves every second. Liquidation sits near $1,846, roughly 7.5% above the price. If ETH squeezes hard, this position dies in public — that's the risk I'm choosing, in the open.

Account closed Day 7 around $3,270. The full picture since Day 1: $2,049.60 went in, $1,406.07 came back out, and $3,270 sits on the table — withdrawals, red clips and an underwater short, all on the record, all verifiable. Booked beats paper, and the stake sleeps at home tonight.