probably lost like $20,000 by not selling in at least like 5 chunks

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They directly tanked the price by 15% by executing this this way, losing on ~15% (a bit less) of the ETH they could’ve gotten

I’ve seen wallets sell and buy six figures with no direct impact on the chart

Respectfully, that’s not the math behind your claim

The liquidity is what’s in the pool - unless their is more ETH added to the pool between their sells, they can’t get more ETH by splitting up their sells

If I buy $1,000,000 in Higher today the price would fly and I would get horrible slippage

If I buy over a few weeks, it gives people time to sell in between my buys though right?

Same thing here

But over those few weeks, what if everyone is just buying and not selling? Aka the price is going up? Then you would get less than if you had just bought $1 million the first day even with the slippage

Yeah I think that’s the tradeoff of DCAing for sure but ultimately I think it’s worth that tradeoff most of the time

I think there’s a reason people TWAP over long periods and I’ve seen it work much better many times but agree to disagree!

There are times in high volatility where dumping all at once definitely makes more sense though I’ll agree

Painting the chart with such a huge red candle is ugly, yes, but I don’t think it’s “worth the tradeoff” purely from the individual’s perspective