I just got educated by myself again: I was thinking "don't chase," but when I saw that on-chain transaction suddenly float, my hand moved faster than my brain, and I swept in at market price... The slippage was quite significant, the pool depth was just okay, and within seconds I pushed my own cost up. Basically, I was placing orders too quickly; if I had split it into two or three trades and taken a bit more time, I could at least have checked whether the order book and transactions were keeping up, instead of going all in at once.

Looking back, there’s no deep technique involved, just don’t mistake "being able to execute" for "being the right time to execute." Especially with small pools, the price may seem stable, but it can break apart at the slightest touch. Recently, everyone’s been talking about social mining and fan tokens—this idea of "attention as mining." It seems like just a nicer way to package FOMO... As for me, being a slowpoke, I’d rather miss out than get slapped again by a sudden slippage. That’s all for now, time to do some bookkeeping.