The oracle price delay, in simple terms, is the sluggishness of the liquidation machine. You think liquidation happens when the price is reached, but it's actually reading stale data from a few seconds ago. By the time it executes, the market has already moved.

Lately, that pile of unlock calendars for staking has given me a headache. Everyone is calculating the selling pressure, but no one is considering whether the oracle node might glitch at a critical moment. Last time, there was a pool where the oracle froze for half a minute, causing a spread of over ten percentage points between the liquidation price and the actual price. Some people got liquidated on extra positions, others grabbed a bargain.

Anyway, now for short-term trades, I first check the oracle's health. I scan the delay logs on-chain more often than I look at candles. That's it for now. After all, in this market… it's not just the machines that are slow.