A lot of trades don’t go wrong because the idea was bad. They go wrong because the execution sucks.
I’ve had that happen more than once. You read the move right, you’re early enough, everything looks fine — then the fill comes in worse than expected and suddenly the trade doesn’t look nearly as good.
It gets more obvious when the size goes up.
People talk about liquidity like it’s always there, but in crypto it’s usually scattered. One place has the volume, somewhere else has the better price, and trying to get a clean entry across that mess is harder than it sounds.
That’s also why slippage matters more than people give it credit for. On smaller trades maybe you ignore it. Once the order size starts getting bigger, you feel it.
I was checking out TradeGenius and that was honestly the part I cared about most. It pulls liquidity from 150+ DEXs into one execution layer, which makes a lot more sense than manually hopping around trying to figure out where to route size.
Not saying it’s the most exciting feature in the world, but after trading for a while, this is the kind of thing you end up caring about more. Not the dashboard. Not whatever feature sounds good in a promo thread. Just whether your order actually gets filled properly.
That part matters more than people think.