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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…