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11- Fees and executionSlippage and price impact…than you clicked, how big your trade is compared with the pool, and what your slippage setting really allows.
- The trading playbookEntries: when to buy and when to stay out…a reason you can write down, what being late costs you, and how limit buys and slippage shape the price you really get.
- The trading playbookBot or do it yourself?…and test again. If it is positive, start real money small: real trades meet slippage and failed transactions that paper results may not fully show. Keep the journal going. Good paper…
- Fees and executionFailed transactions and what they cost…a failure costs you fees unless your app says otherwise. Why trades fail Slippage exceeded. The price moved further than your limit. This is the most common one on memecoins. Not…
- Fees and executionMEV and sandwich attacks…bot sells right after. A bot sees your buy before it lands, along with your slippage limit. It buys the same coin first and pushes the price up. Your buy fills at the higher price.…
- Start hereNetwork fees in plain words…of October 2026, and less on big coins that have graduated. **Price impact and slippage.** Not a fee, but a real cost. On a small memecoin, your own buy pushes the price up while it…
- Fees and executionPlatform, launchpad and creator fees…bots. Never treat volume alone as proof that real people are buying. Next: slippage and price impact
- The trading playbookStop-losses and trailing stops…the platform's servers and on the network. GMGN's docs list the usual reasons: slippage set too low, a priority fee too small, a busy network, or liquidity removed. They also warn that a…
- Fees and executionThe fee stack: where your money goes…The fee stack: every layer you pay on one trade, from the tiny network fee to slippage. The layers Network fee. What Solana charges to process any transaction: 5,000 lamports per…
- Narratives and metasTiming: early, late and too late…at $18 million: it goes up about 11%. $100 becomes about $111, and fees and slippage can eat most of that. Now remember that nobody knows where the top is. If the real top is $8…
- Memecoins 101Why people trade them…of every trade, so as a group, traders lose more than they win. Then there is slippage, the gap between the price you saw and the price you got. That money does not vanish. It ends up…
Words
13- SlippageThe gap between the price you were quoted and the price you get. Your slippage setting is the biggest gap you will accept before the trade fails.
- 100x…that is a 100x, so $20 would have become about $2,000 before fees and slippage. People post their 100x wins and almost never their losses, which makes these wins look far more…
- Failed transactionTrades fail when the price moves past your slippage, when the network is busy and your fee is too low, or when the pool changes before your trade…
- Front-run…after you. Front-running is the first half of a sandwich attack. Keeping your slippage tight limits how much anyone can make by front-running you.
- Initials…initials are out, a later crash only takes profit, never your stake. Fees and slippage mean you need to sell a little more than half to really get the full 1 SOL back.
- Market order…current price plus your own price impact, as long as it stays within your slippage. It is fast, but in a quick move the price you get can be far from the price you saw.
- MEV protection…risk without removing it, and trades can sometimes land a little slower. Tight slippage is still your main defence.
- Paper money…not. Expect real results to be somewhat worse, because real trades meet fees, slippage and failed transactions that a paper balance may not fully copy.
- Paper trading…results usually look better than real ones, because real trades pay fees, slippage and the cost of failed transactions.
- PnL (profit and loss)…your open bags are worth right now compared with what you paid. Count fees, slippage and failed transactions, or your PnL will look better than your wallet. People post PnL cards of…
- Price impact…moves the price far more than the same buy into a pool holding 2,000 SOL. Your slippage setting caps how much of this you will accept.
- Sandwich attack…into the higher price your buy created. Your loss is the bot's profit. High slippage settings invite it, so keep slippage tight and prefer apps that offer MEV protection.
- Swap…Behind the scenes the swap goes through a pool or an aggregator. Check the slippage setting and the coin's contract address before you confirm.