Yesterday I swapped a small coin on-chain, set the slippage fairly wide, but I still got bitten a little—the execution price was quite far from what I expected. When I went back to look, the pool depth was actually okay, but my order timing was off. I happened to place my last order just as someone else was pumping the price, so my last limit order got pushed to the back. Basically, I was just too impatient—I wanted to eat in one go, trying to take a big chunk at once, but ended up getting taught a lesson by liquidity.

On-chain data tools like Dune or tag systems look pretty intimidating, but their reference value can be pretty limited sometimes. Depth is dynamic, and the tags can be misleading too. For now, I just trust the pacing I enter in batches. Take it slow—no need to fill everything in one shot. That’s it for now.