Gas & Trading Fees: Why Small Trades Lose and the Break-Even Trade Size
This lesson is part of the course
In this lesson
You add up the round-trip cost of buying and later selling a token for seven trade sizes, see what a +5% move leaves after costs, and find the smallest trade that keeps costs under 2%.
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Lessons in this course
- Token vs Index: Daily Returns, Volatility & Maximum Drawdown Locked
- Dollar-Cost Averaging vs Lump Sum on a Volatile Token Locked
- Portfolio Weights & Rebalancing with Trading Fees Locked
- Staking Rewards: APR vs APY and the Cost of a Lock-Up Locked
- Gas & Trading Fees: Why Small Trades Lose and the Break-Even Trade Size Locked
- Liquidity Pools: Constant Product x·y = k, Price Impact & Slippage Locked
- Impermanent Loss vs Holding: 2·√r / (1 + r) − 1 Locked
- Stablecoin Depeg Scenarios, Position Sizing & Loss Limits Locked