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I used to only watch the price movement when monitoring the market, not whether it would jump or not.
Later, after doing a few small experiments, I realized that sometimes the real trap is the oracle feeding prices slowly behind the scenes:
You see it still looks stable on your end, but the health of the contract/loan side has already been stuck by the "old price."
When it updates, liquidations are triggered all at once like opening a floodgate, and slippage and fees instantly become outrageous.
Recently, during days of extreme funding rates, people in the group argue whether to reverse the trend or keep squeezing the bubble.
Anyway, I care more about whether this price feed delay + liquidity fragmentation will turn liquidations into a chain reaction.
Now my habit is to keep leverage as low as possible, leave some buffer in my positions, and also check how frequently different oracles update…
Honestly, don’t let yourself lose out on the "price update at that very second."