Today, I was again bombarded with screenshots in the group chat about "a certain stablecoin losing its peg" and "reserve audits having suspicious issues," which made my heart race... But what bothers me more is that on-chain, even though I clearly clicked confirm first, the slippage suddenly increased as if I was cut in line. To put it simply, MEV/ordering isn't just about "smart people making more profit"; more often, it's about treating ordinary people as liquidity to be squeezed: you think you're trading with the market, but in reality, you're racing against a bunch of bots watching your trades.

What affects me the most isn't how much I lost, but the sense of unfairness that pushes people to chase, to leverage more to regain their position, and then things get more chaotic. Tonight, I won't make reckless moves; I'll review the transaction hashes of the last three times I got sandwiched, compare the gas and routing at that time, and see if I was just too greedy with the slippage settings... That's it for now. Once I finish my review, I'll decide whether to switch to a more conservative order placement method.