Last night, I paid my tuition again: I’d planned to take a small position to catch the rebound, but once I got impatient, I slapped a market order in. The slippage turned out to be more outrageous than I thought. When I went back to look, that pool’s depth was only that much, and I even split it into two entries to chase the fills—basically, I ended up topping the price up myself… To put it plainly, my order timing got messed up. I should’ve posted a limit order first to test the waters, or just waited to do an equal replenishment before moving.

Recently, AI Agents and automated trading have been getting a lot of hype, but the more “automatic” the on-chain interactions get, the easier it is to step into those two pitfalls—security and slippage—faster. The robot doesn’t care about trading fees; I do.

I still trust the data more: when emotions get the upper hand, my intuition is the one that loves to fool me. On-chain depth and the execution distribution at least won’t lie. For now, that’s it. Tomorrow, I’ll reset the depth thresholds for the commonly used pools.