What is a good slippage setting for memecoins?
Short answer
There is no universal number — the right slippage depends on the pool depth and your trade size. Thin, fast-moving pools need more tolerance just to fill; deep pools should use a tight setting to avoid sandwich attacks.
A single global setting is wrong for most trades. The better instinct is to reduce your trade size on thin pools rather than blindly cranking tolerance.
Related questions
Why not just set slippage very high?
High tolerance on a thin pool invites sandwich bots and gives you far worse fills. The price impact is the real cost, not the setting.
Why does my buy keep failing?
Likely because the price moved more than your slippage allowed, so the swap reverted. You still pay the failed-transaction fee.
Should exits use more slippage than entries?
Often slightly more, so a sell can actually land during a fast drop — being unable to exit is worse than a marginally worse fill.
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