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Lately, looking at on-chain liquidation records gives me a bit of a chill... Many people focus on the price line, but actually, they should pay more attention to the "slow half beat" of the oracle feed price chart. When the feed price is delayed, your position on the chain/inside the system still looks stable, but the liquidation system uses a different "old world" price. During extreme volatility, this often leads to: even though the price has recovered, your position gets liquidated; or you get liquidated first, and a few seconds later you realize the price wasn't actually that low. To put it simply, liquidation isn't a race with the market price; it's a race with the feed price plus update frequency.
These days, with expectations of rate cuts and the US dollar index fluctuating together with risk assets, this delay feeling is amplified. When the trend suddenly accelerates, it’s like someone is flicking your stop-loss line. My approach is simple: don’t leverage to the max, leave a thicker margin from the liquidation line, and when the market suddenly gets caught up in a "macro narrative," reduce some positions first—don’t bet on the feed price just happening to be in sync. Let’s see what happens next.