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Lately, it really feels like liquidity is quite dry, with orders so thin they're like paper, and slippage has everyone confused. Anyway, my current mindset is just one sentence: survive first, then talk about bottom fishing, don’t shout “opportunity is here” while being pinched back and forth, losing your patience.
Keep your position smaller, take it slow in batches, save some bullets and stablecoins to sleep more peacefully.
By the way, I see there's more noise about miner/validator income, MEV, and the fairness of ordering, honestly, the hardest part for retail investors is thinking you're trading when you're actually just fueling others. (I'm just a lurker, mostly watching the show.)
Even though new activities on L2 are heating up again, I’ll just look at some on-chain data first, don’t get distracted by the noise, that’s all for now.