What to do when you keep getting sandwiched on your trades
A practical playbook for one of the situations every memecoin trader eventually faces: when you keep getting sandwiched on your trades.
How to read the situation
Repeatedly getting a fill much worse than quoted, with bracketing trades, means sandwich bots are targeting you — usually because of high slippage on thin pools or large visible swaps.
The fix is rarely more slippage; it is tighter tolerance, smaller size, and private routing.
What to do right now
- Tighten slippage on deeper pools.
- Reduce trade size on thin pools.
- Use private transaction routing where available.
- Split large visible swaps.
- Recognize the bracketing-trade pattern in your fills.
What not to do
- ✗ Raising slippage to "fix" bad fills (it makes it worse).
- ✗ Trading huge size on thin pools.
- ✗ Ignoring private routing options.
- ✗ Leaving a wide global slippage setting.
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Education only — not financial advice. Memecoins are extremely high risk.
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