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Slippage is the difference between the expected price of a trade and the price at which it actually executes, caused by price movement during order processing.
Slippage is the gap between the price you expect to get when you submit a trade and the price the trade actually fills at. It happens because markets move between the moment you click "buy" and the moment the order is matched, and because large orders eat through multiple price levels in the order book or liquidity pool.
Slippage is highest in two situations: high volatility (price moves fast while the order is in flight) and low liquidity (a large order exhausts the available supply at the best price and fills progressively further from it). On automated market makers like Uniswap, slippage is a function of trade size relative to pool depth and is why DEXs let you set a "slippage tolerance" — the maximum price degradation you will accept before the trade reverts.
Managing slippage is a core trading skill. Tactics include splitting large orders into smaller pieces, using limit orders instead of market orders, avoiding trading during the first minutes of a major news event, and choosing deeper pools or exchanges for size. Ignoring slippage quietly drains returns, especially for active traders and DEX users.
Slippage is the difference between the price you expect when you submit a trade and the price at which it actually fills. It occurs because prices move while your order is being processed and because large orders consume multiple price levels.
Use limit orders instead of market orders, split large orders into smaller pieces, trade in deeper liquidity pools, avoid submitting trades during high-volatility news events, and set an appropriate slippage tolerance on DEX swaps.
For stablecoin pairs, 0.1-0.5% is usually enough. For volatile pairs or larger trades, 0.5-1% is common. Setting tolerance too high exposes you to sandwich attacks; setting it too low causes your trade to fail when prices move.
A liquidity pool is a smart-contract vault of paired tokens that decentralized exchanges use to enable automated, peer-to-contract trading without an order book.
A gas fee is the charge users pay to have a transaction processed on a blockchain network, denominated in the network's native token and varying with demand.
A whale is an individual or entity that holds enough of an asset to move its price with a single buy or sell, often tracked via on-chain data.
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