Last night I was so stupid… I wanted to catch an event-driven rebound, but I stepped right into a slippage trap. Seeing the candlestick chart surge pretty hard, I chased it, didn’t check the depth in advance, and my orders were so thin they were basically paper-thin. Once the trades scattered, the average price was pushed up by a whole notch. Then the moment a pullback came, my mindset collapsed. To put it plainly, it wasn’t that I was wrong on direction—it was that my order timing was too rushed: when it was time to split orders, I went in with one swing, and when liquidity wasn’t enough, I blamed the market.

After reviewing it, there are only two things: first, look at the real depth of the pool/order book—don’t just stare at the price; second, enter and exit in batches. I’d rather take a smaller bite than get fully eaten up by slippage. Also, lately everyone has been comparing RWA, US bond yields, and on-chain yield products together. I’ll go verify on-chain too, to figure out exactly where the returns are really coming from—otherwise, what looks “stable” is just the effect of squeezing, waiting to happen.

At the time, I really felt like uninstalling the trading app… but after cooling down, I kept it. I lowered the default slippage and turned off quick market orders. If I’m wrong, I’ll just adjust it—no stubbornness.