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Fees and execution

Every cost on a trade, from the network fee to the sandwich bot, and why a 1% fee on every buy and sell quietly decides who wins.

7 lessons · 22 min · final quiz

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A glowing coin travels along a track through four small toll booths; at each one a small chip drops into a jar and the coin gets smaller, while the explorer watches from a hill.

Lessons

  1. 1The fee stack: where your money goesEvery buy and sell costs more than the price on the screen. Here is each layer, who gets it, and what one real trade costs.3 min read · 4 quiz questionsNot done yet
  2. 2Priority fees and tips: paying to go firstHow the network fee, priority fees and tips decide whose trade lands first, and when paying more is a waste.3 min read · 4 quiz questionsNot done yet
  3. 3Platform, launchpad and creator feesThe percent fees that take most of your money: what apps charge, what launchpads charge, who the creator fee pays, and what global fees tell you.4 min read · 4 quiz questionsNot done yet
  4. 4Slippage and price impactWhy you get filled at a worse price than you clicked, how big your trade is compared with the pool, and what your slippage setting really allows.3 min read · 4 quiz questionsNot done yet
  5. 5MEV and sandwich attacksHow a sandwich bot buys before you and sells after you, a worked example with real pool math, and how to protect yourself.3 min read · 4 quiz questionsNot done yet
  6. 6Failed transactions and what they costWhy trades fail, the difference between failed and dropped, what you still pay, and how to stop a failure spiral.3 min read · 4 quiz questionsNot done yet
  7. 7Why fees decide who winsA 1% fee on every buy and sell over 100 trades, worked out in SOL, plus the break-even rise every trade needs and how to pay less.3 min read · 4 quiz questionsNot done yet
  8. Final quiz8 harder questions on the whole track, some of them tricky.Not done yet

After this: The trading playbook

This guide is for learning. It is not financial advice. Most memecoins go to zero and most people who trade them lose money. Only ever trade what you can afford to lose.