Today the rain is a bit heavy, traffic is so congested I doubted my life, and the coffee in the car has gone cold... Just casually reviewing last night's bad trade. Honestly, I mistook "slippage" for a fill-in-the-blank question: the quote looked pretty good, but the depth of the pool couldn't withstand my move at all, and when the MEV bots squeezed in, my execution price just floated away. Even dumber was the order timing—seeing large orders being canceled but still chasing, which is like sending myself to be fuel.

Now I’d rather split it into several smaller trades, first checking if the order book is hollow, instead of rushing during the most volatile moments before or after maintenance/upgrades. Recently, that main public chain is about to upgrade, everyone’s guessing whether the ecosystem will migrate or not. I’ve decided to tighten the slippage threshold first, do fewer heroic moves, and focus more on calculations.