Yesterday I was educated again: thinking "Just this one trade, quickly get on board," and ended up slipping badly. Honestly, it’s not the market trapping me, it’s that I didn’t look at the depth and still tried to sweep the order; the small liquidity pool simply couldn’t withstand my burst of trading. In the past, I would just look at the candlestick charts impulsively; now I first open the trading path to check: which pool it’s going through, whether there are detours, how thin the liquidity is, and I lower my tolerance for slippage accordingly. If it doesn’t execute, so be it.

My order placement rhythm also has to be more cautious: if I want to buy, I split it into several smaller orders and let the price come to me; especially when the chain is congested, rushing to chase only gets me squeezed or slipped, and my mood explodes. Recently, everyone’s talking about modularization and Layer 1 discussions are flying high, developers are very excited, but I, as a user, am more pragmatic: no matter how big your narrative is, for me, it’s just “will this trade be whittled down by a few points along a path I can’t understand?” For now, it’s okay to take it slow—there’s nothing shameful about that.