Been trading on-chain long enough that I honestly spend almost as much time worrying about execution as I do about the actual trade idea.
You can be right on direction and still get wrecked by the path your order takes. Slippage eats part of the move, MEV bots somehow appear the second you touch size, and half the time you're jumping between chains trying to find liquidity that should've been in one place to begin with. It's frustrating when the market moves exactly how you expected, but your fills tell a completely different story.
What really gets me is how fragmented everything still feels. One pool has liquidity but terrible pricing, another has better pricing but no depth, and by the time you've bridged assets and routed through three different protocols, the opportunity is gone. Then you look back and realize the trade would've been better if you had done nothing.
Front-running and sandwich attacks are the kind of thing you don't think about when you're new, but once you've traded enough size, you start noticing all the little ways value leaks out of every transaction. It adds up. People talk nonstop about finding alpha, but a lot of traders are just trying to stop getting chipped away by bad execution.
That's probably why the idea behind Genius Terminal catches my attention. The promise isn't another dashboard full of indicators or some magic signal generator. It's the idea of actually getting cleaner execution in a market where execution is usually the problem. If you've spent enough time trading on-chain, you know the difference between a good trade and a profitable trade is often everything that happens after you hit confirm.
Maybe that's the real battle now. Not predicting the market. Just making sure the market doesn't take a cut from you every step of the way.
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