Lately I’ve been staring at charts so hard that I started doubting my own life: you think you’ve caught an arbitrage opportunity, but you might just be the sandwich filling… When I see those moments where the “spread looks really good,” my first reaction isn’t to rush in—I first check whether there’s a bunch of pending in the mempool in the same direction, and whether gas suddenly spikes. A couple of days ago I casually checked a route: 0x9f3…a21 bought first and then sold, sandwiching me for a hit. I set slippage to 0.5%, but the execution price still got pushed away—plain and simple, I’m just paying someone else’s fee. Recently, new L1/L2 networks have been rolling out incentives to boost TVL, and everyone’s also complaining about digging/withdrawing and selling—I get it. Once liquidity heats up, the sandwich bots and arbitrage robots heat up right along with it. Anyway, these days I like trying with small positions and watching the paths more carefully. You can go for it, but don’t go in so aggressively that you look like a “cash machine.”