Last night I made a trade that really went wrong—when I went back and reviewed it, it wasn’t that I chose the wrong direction; it was that I was just itching to do it. Seeing that the orders sitting in the pool weren’t very thick, I still insisted on sweeping them all in one go. I ended up getting hit hard by slippage; and even more absurd is that I placed the order in two rounds—the first time I thinned out the depth, and the second time the price was even more wild… Bottom line: my order timing was too rushed, and I didn’t leave myself any buffer.

Now that the cross-chain bridge has been hacked again, and there are also incidents like oracle errors popping up, everyone’s shouting “wait for confirmation,” and I get it. Anyway, I’m willing to be a bit more troublesome by one extra step: for large orders, I’d rather split them into smaller ones, go slower, try a small amount first, and then continue only after checking the slippage and the transaction distribution. Also, spend a bit more gas to get more confirmations, so I can sleep more soundly. It’s fine to make money more slowly—at least I won’t get swept up by my own impulsiveness.