This morning, while watching the sea, my mind was still replaying that trade from last night. I clearly didn’t mean to chase it—yet my hand twitched, and I ended up chasing anyway. Back then, I even thought slippage was a bother, so I didn’t look closely. I couldn’t be bothered to check the depth either, so I just slammed in a one-price offer. The moment it filled felt like waves hitting rocks—there was a loud crash. When I looked back, I found that the price difference had been smashed into pieces.

Only when I reviewed everything later did I realize it wasn’t that my “direction was wrong”—it was the rhythm: the pool was already thin, and I still chose to place orders during the few minutes when everyone was the most frantic. The more impatient I was, the more I ended up losing out. And recently, there’s been that mainstream public-chain upgrade/maintenance too. In the group chat, everyone was guessing whether the project would migrate. Meanwhile, on-chain liquidity kept going in and out—pulling back like the tide, then returning like the tide—so my impulsive orders were even easier to get swept away by the wave.

Conclusion: Next time, I’d rather split it into several batches, move slower, check the depth first, and then decide on slippage—don’t treat a “twitching hand” as an opportunity.