I usually don't care much about the market and swap in the liquidity pool. I think the price is the same 😂. The reality say "It's not same". I noticed that some market prices and liquidity prices do not match the chart and some of them are off-chart. For example HH

In the market, we can sell HH for 0.00001 SWAP.HIVE/HH (in my opinion of course 😂) while in swap, we can get 0.00001551 SWAP.HIVE/HH. I also found that someone is selling below the swap price, so I can buy all of them and exchange them to get more SWAP.HIVE. It's quite funny to see that.

Since I want to increase my portfolio, I thought I would trade while selling my tokens at the same time. Honestly, I got so many tokens from who knows where... I think it was from author rewards or curation or dividend rewards because there weren't many. I usually sell them straight away, but now I watch the market and swap first, then decide which one I want to use. If the difference is favorable, I will place a buy order so I can swap them later 😂. I've done some transactions around 2-3 days. Tho, it's not much at least I've done what I can do.

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Sometimes I see bots placing buy orders a little higher than mine when I place buy orders 🤔. Well, if it's a bot, I'll see how it can manage it and learn the pattern, but when I see other hivers, I'll set the same price. It's funny to see how bots react to that. More things to learn 😍.

How do I determine if it is a bot or not? Well, I only look at one chart at a time (what a human can do) and look at https://he.dtools.dev/ as a reference. Switching between charts, checking orders, and changing prices takes time. It is impossible to do many things at the same time if you are a human. It's still my speculation. It could be wrong. I hope I'm not making enemies in the market 😂.

Staying and waiting isn't my ninja way. Use every seconds to make money or do something useful is better. Have a nice day~