I once deliberately opened high leverage on a small platform at the right moment, trying to see what happens when the oracle feeds prices slowly... The result was that you see the market has already pulled back, but the position is still being calculated risk based on "old prices," and the liquidation line seems unresponsive. In the end, I had to top up the margin, which was quite frustrating. Honestly, it’s not that you judged wrong; it’s just that the system hasn’t caught up yet.



Later, I learned my lesson: when encountering oracles with few data sources or slow update frequencies, I’d rather take a smaller position or simply avoid fast-paced trading. Recently, there’s been a bunch of testnet points farming, and the group is guessing every day whether the mainnet will issue tokens... Anyway, now when I see the word "incentives," I first check the contract permissions and the oracle feeding path, so that when it really goes live on the mainnet, I won’t get caught off guard by liquidations and have to teach people a lesson.
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