Closed my first 5x BTC long +25% — sharing what worked

Two weeks of paper trading and I finally booked a +38% trade. 5x lev on SOL.

Three things that helped:
• Tight 1.2% SL, no exceptions
• Waited for clean retest of range low before entry
• Scaled out 50% at 1.5R, let rest run

FOMO was the hardest part to kill. anyone else papertrading their way to discipline?