When I recently looked through liquidation data, one thing kept coming to mind: you might think it’s because your leverage is too high, but sometimes it’s actually due to price feeds being “fed” a bit late. Those few seconds of delay in oracle quotes can make your on-chain position health feel like it’s been “replayed” once—the price has already come back, but your collateral ratio is still stuck on the previous frame. And liquidation bots won’t factor in your emotions; they simply follow the rules.

Especially when everyone is constantly watching staking unlocks and token unlock calendars, the fear of sell pressure makes volatility more choppy and more urgent, and the delay is easier to get amplified into “luckily, it only happened once.” My approach is pretty simple and a little old-fashioned: I don’t dare to run leverage right up to the line. I leave some buffer—I’d rather make a bit less and sleep better… In any case, that moment of liquidation doesn’t care about your reasons. As for whether the oracle update frequency you’re using is truly stable, it depends on whether you’re willing to check the on-chain records and confirm it yourself. Have you recently been caught by this kind of “slow price feed” trap? I’ll hold off on drawing conclusions for now.