Reply to “If the fees are this outrageous, shouldn’t you just countertrade”… I usually stare at the mempool first—like checking the weather. When congestion and big orders get jammed together, even if the fees are extreme, it’s not necessarily “free money”; more often, everyone’s fighting to squeeze through the same narrow door, and slippage and traps snap up the “opponent-book advantage” in one bite. To put it plainly, I more often choose to dodge volatility: post small orders/scale in, or just stay out of the market until the emotions cool down. If I really have to take the opponent-book side, I only dare to do it with a light position—leaving myself an exit button. That spiral of inflation plus a studio squeeze in chain games is actually the same flavor as extreme fees: when it’s hot, it all looks right; but when it cools, you realize liquidity ran first. Anyway, I’d rather miss out than get punctured through by a single needle.