Today I paid my tuition fee: I wanted to save effort with a small order, so I set a larger slippage and went all in directly.

As a result, the pool depth was insufficient, and the trade kept getting pushed down, ending with a worse price than I expected, and I wasted gas for nothing.
Honestly, it’s not the market trapping me; it’s that I was too hasty with my order timing: seeing green, I acted quickly, didn’t split the order, didn’t check the order book depth, and didn’t wait a few seconds for the price to stabilize.
Lately, we’ve been talking about rate cut expectations and how the US dollar index moves together with risk assets, but now I’m more worried about “everyone rushing in at the same second.”
In the future, I’ll stick to the old way: first check the depth, then tighten the slippage, place orders in two or three steps—better to be slow and steady, because even the small gains are worth fighting for.