What is slippage?
The difference between the price you expected to trade at and the price you actually got.
Slippage happens because the market moves between your decision and your fill, and because a large order consumes the best-priced orders and then fills against worse ones. It grows with order size and shrinks with liquidity.
Why it matters: it is a real cost that calculators and headline fee schedules ignore. On a thin token it can dwarf the trading fee. It also means stop orders are not guarantees: in a fast move a stop can fill well below where it was placed, so a loss can exceed what a position-size calculation suggested.
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