Today I was dumb enough to do this to myself: I had a trade I originally wanted to “fast in and fast out,” but I set the slippage too loose, and the pool depth wasn’t deep enough. As soon as I started to rush the fill, it “took a bite” out of me—then, like someone getting an extra jab, it kept sliding downward. To put it plainly, it wasn’t the market trapping me; it was that I was moving too fast with my order timing. Once I saw the price moving, I got an itch to act, forgetting to break the order into smaller pieces first, to look at a few trades’ volume first, and even thinking waiting just 2 seconds for the limit orders to rest was too slow.

Lately I’ve been watching those on-chain games and their kind of economic collapse—it’s actually pretty similar: once inflation kicks in and the studio starts running, the depth suddenly thins out, and the price starts spiraling. Everyone wants to get out one step earlier, and the more you rush, the more you end up sliding. Anyway, I’ll revoke the relevant permissions tonight first, then I’ll write down the on-chain records before and after this trade. For now, that’s it.