Just paid tuition again: a swap failed directly, and I burned a little gas first, almost losing my cool as well. Looking back, it’s not the chain acting up, it’s that I set my slippage too “ideal,” the pool depth is what it is, and I still wanted to eat it all in one go. The price was pushed by me, and I got stuck at that step, unable to move forward.

Now I increasingly feel that the timing of placing orders is more important than I thought. When liquidity is squeezed, others act first, and your expectations turn into memories. In the future, I’d rather split large orders into two or three parts, don’t set slippage too tight, let it go through first, then slowly grind down the cost… Anyway, rushing doesn’t help.

Recently, everyone interprets ETF capital flows, US stock risk appetite, and crypto market rises and falls together, I also glance at them, but when it really comes down to my own trade, liquidity and those few seconds of crowding are more real. Stay calm first, don’t compete with the full blocks.