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Liquidity & slippage, explained
Liquidity is the money sitting in a token's trading pool. It's the most important number on any token page because it answers the only question that matters: can you get out? Price is what a token claims to be worth; liquidity is how much of that you can actually collect.
When you trade against a pool, your own order moves the price — that's slippage. Small pool + normal-sized trade = you pay a premium going in and take a haircut coming out. Scammers love thin pools because your money goes in easily and comes out broken.
Slippage calculator
Rough estimate for a standard AMM pool. Real slippage is usually a little worse.
- Entry impact
- 2.0%
- Round trip (in + out)
- 3.9%
- Real cost
- $19.61
Workable — slippage won't be what kills this trade.
Rules of thumb
- • Keep your trade under 1% of pool liquidity and slippage stays a rounding error.
- • Under $20k liquidity, treat any position as money already spent.
- • The token just needs to move more than your round-trip cost before you see a cent of profit — check that number above before every entry.
The Radar scanner shows live liquidity for every pair and flags anything under $20k automatically.