How "DEX Liquidity" affects your trade price
Most people think trading on a DEX means you’ll always get the advertised price, but it can feel pretty confusing when your final trade amount is different. Ever wonder why that happens sometimes, making you feel a bit short-changed? 🤔
Imagine you're trying to swap your dollars for a super specific, rare collectible at a small, independent shop – that shop's inventory is like a DEX's 'liquidity pool' for that item.
When you want to trade your crypto on a decentralized exchange, you're interacting with these pools that hold pairs of tokens.
You expect a certain exchange rate, but when you go to make a big swap, sometimes the shop only has a few items left, meaning the price for the next item goes up because demand is high for the limited supply.
Therefore, you might pay more than you expected because the pool for the token you want is just too small to handle your large order without a price shift.
This 'price shift' is what we call slippage, and it happens when a trade is so big that it significantly changes the ratio of assets in the liquidity pool, impacting the price for everyone, especially you! 😱
Therefore, the crucial lesson here is that low liquidity means a small trade can have a much bigger impact on your final price than on a highly liquid asset.
Always check the 'liquidity' or 'slippage tolerance' settings on your DEX before hitting that swap button; it’s like checking if the shop has enough stock for your huge purchase before you commit! ✨
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