Just paid my tuition again: wanted to copy a callback on DEX, but ended up making a "slippage literature" out of a small order... When the transaction price drifted away, my mood also drifted.

I used to blame myself for slow reaction speed, but after reviewing, it seems more like: the pool depth was already thin, and I chose a time when everyone was rushing in, the router took two hops around me, and by the time I confirmed those few seconds, the price had already been pushed away. To put it simply, it's not that "the market targeted me," but that I placed my order in the most vulnerable spot to be eaten.

Recently, new L1/L2s are offering incentives to boost TVL, which is lively, but veteran users complain that "mining, selling" isn't without reason: even if liquidity looks abundant, whether it can withstand actual trades depends on how many are willing to withdraw at any moment. Now I place orders more slowly, split them into several parts, avoid blocking the entire transaction, set slippage more like a stop-loss, anyway, don’t clash with my impatient temper.