Recently, people keep asking me, "Should I jump in when I see a price difference on the chain?" Honestly, what you see might not be an opportunity; it could be a fee trap set by others. Sandwich attacks are the most annoying: you enter the pool, and two front and back trades trap you clearly, and in the end, you think it was just your slip. Arbitrage is the same; the ones who can consistently profit are usually not retail investors but those who are quick, have maxed-out fee budgets, and use a bunch of scripts.

My current approach is pretty simple: I’d rather spend a bit more time setting the slippage to a fixed level, breaking down the trade into smaller amounts, or even paying a few more gas fees to find a more stable route, rather than rushing in recklessly and becoming fuel for someone else’s candlestick patterns. Anyway, surviving is more important than "hitting it once."

By the way, looking at the inflation + studio + token price spiral in blockchain games, it’s very similar to the sandwich mentality: you think you’re making money, but actually, you’re just helping the system circulate. The final crash reveals that you are liquidity itself. For now, don’t chase if you don’t have to.