Recently, people keep saying, "I've checked on the chain, it must be correct," and I find myself wanting to laugh but can't quite do it... The transaction you see, that liquidation, might have gone through multiple steps behind the scenes, like node synchronization, RPC forwarding, indexer database entry—any one of these could cause a delay. Not to mention some RPCs also do caching or rate limiting, so what you think is real-time is actually just the previous batch's world.

These days, funding rates are extremely volatile, and in the group, people are arguing whether to reverse or keep squeezing the bubble. I instead go check my data sources: how different nodes at the same height return inconsistent results, how much index delay there is, whether there are gaps from the mempool perspective. In other words, when the information structure is unstable, emotions are more easily driven by the "delayed certainty."

I trust data more, but only if I understand where the data comes from; intuition is too quick, and it's easy to mistake delay for trend. For now, I prefer to be a bit slower, rather than confidently relying on fake real-time.