Lately, on-chain data keeps "lagging," at first I thought my internet was bad... Then I realized it's probably the indexer/Subgraph or RPC rate limiting. To put it simply, what you're seeing isn't the "real-time picture" of the chain, but rather cached and queued data organized for you by others: when requests pile up, they get queued, rejected, or the indexer hasn't caught up with the latest blocks yet, causing the charts/panels to suddenly jump.

And now, with funding rates being extremely volatile, there's debate in the community about whether to reverse positions or continue squeezing the bubble. As someone who trades infrequently, I dare not let a single data frame carry me away. My discipline is: at least verify the same thing with two sources (different RPCs, different subgraphs/browsers). If they don't match, I treat it as if it didn't happen.

What I fear most isn't losing money, but getting caught up in the "illusion of data delay" and trading more and more recklessly. For now, I prefer to be a bit slow rather than blindly rushing.