Dear Poly team
We have for a long time asked for more security -and we fucking need it
Please, just please start taking users fund security more seriously.
Luckily, this exploit was poorly executed and only 2.5m was stolen, but this is horrible.
We have asked for additional security measures for a very long time, please try
You should also have automated systems to catch this - it was extremely obvious to me as a human monitoring it, that it was a script dumping positions, you should have systems up to detect this ASAP and freeze.
The fees are too high
If you trade TradFi , the trading fees are minimal.
Playing zero sum games is fun but when the game is -7% EV based on fees, the edge required to stay profitable is too high
It becomes a vicious cycle of declining volume and liquidity
If you click something with huge fees, you need to have big conviction and be certain that it will move/ you will win the bet. Swing trading is dead.
If you regret clicking something, and want to sell it, you already paid a ton in fees and then in spread, meaning the only people who click stuff will be either people with big edge, or really dumb money
As the competition for dumb money is high, getting filled takes longer, and you decide to just not trade because leaving a bid on something fast moving is likely to get adversed, meaning massively declining volume and less vibrant markets
I guess many of the recreational gamblers who would otherwise lose on sportsbooks with worse prises are not very price sensitive, but for political / tech / AI / econ markets where we do not have a ton of recreational gamblers, the fees are destroying liquidity
I would suggest PMs to cut their fees to sub 0.5% at 50c shares, at that point I would probably ignore fees and trade a lot more.