Last night, I was feeling itchy and wanted to do a small swing trade, watching the market and thinking "it's about right," then impulsively entered at market price. The slippage taught me a lesson: at the moment of placing the order, the depth looked fine, but after the trade was executed, I realized I had eaten through the thin layer, raising the average price significantly... When the price retraced just a little afterward, my mindset started to fall apart, thinking about adding more or running away, and the rhythm became more and more fragmented, finally getting stopped out at the most annoying moment.

Looking back, it’s actually pretty simple: don’t rush that one move, wait for one confirmation to be real, place limit orders or split the order slowly, better to earn less than have slippage steal it away. Recently, everyone’s talking about AI agents for automated trading and on-chain interactions being so clever, but I think half of it is just storytelling, and half is real people focusing on safety and execution details; anyway, my conclusion is, no matter how fancy the tools are, if your fundamentals like depth and order pacing are weak, you’ll still blow up. That’s it for now, I’ll improve gradually.