Last night, out of impatience, I made a token swap on the blockchain, and as a result, I learned a lesson: the quote looked pretty good, but the moment I clicked confirm, the slippage directly ate half of the profit, and the remaining was cut further by a worse transaction price. To put it simply, it’s not the market trapping me, it’s that I didn’t look at the depth — the pool was so shallow, and I still wanted to drink it all in one gulp.

After reviewing, there are only three things: don’t just focus on the price, first glance at whether the pool is deep; don’t place all your orders at once, split them into several parts to give yourself a chance to retreat; don’t set the slippage too wide for convenience — wider just means others can pick it up.

Recently, with airdrop season, task platforms are cracking down on anti-witchcraft measures and point systems that feel like clocking in at work, which I find a bit annoying, so I need to make my trading “as clean as reconciling accounts.”

I treat complexity as an enemy: if a simpler order method can solve the problem, don’t stubbornly endure the complicated result. That’s all for now.