Last night, I tried to catch a small retracement on an obscure chain, but one trade immediately made me doubt life... Honestly, I was too impatient: I looked at the pool depth, which was very shallow, and I set a pretty wide slippage, thinking "I can still get filled," and sure enough, the trade went through, but I pushed the price up myself, and the next second it was hammered back to the original level, resulting in a clean loss.

Looking back: when the depth isn't enough, don't go all in at once; split it into several parts, wait for confirmation on a few candles before entering, which is better than rushing to catch the rhythm like I did. Especially now, with new L1/L2 incentives to boost TVL, once there's a "mining, transferring, selling" wave, the order book looks like paper—just a slight push and it's empty.

Now, with so much information noise, my noise reduction strategy is simple: first, only focus on the pool depth and the last few trades; mute other group messages and long threads from KOLs for now. I'll check the excitement after I finish my order. That's it for now.