Last night I paid my tuition again, originally planning to trade lightly and test the waters, but I ended up stepping into a slippage trap. Seeing the price on the interface was quite stable, I casually placed a market order, and the execution immediately "ate" me into a worse price level, only to realize later that the order book depth was as thin as paper... My regret isn’t the outcome, but the fact that I was too hasty with my order timing. I could have split it into two or three smaller orders, tried with small orders first, then gradually added, but I was trying to save effort.

What’s more embarrassing is that I also trusted a label from an on-chain data tool, only to remember later that everyone has been complaining recently about how laggy that tool is, and how it can even mislead you. To put it simply, labels can only serve as a reference; if you really want to place an order, you still need to look at the order book/depth pool and routing yourself, and don’t set slippage too loosely. Anyway, I’m going back to “light position, slow pace,” and I won’t argue with myself anymore.