Just bit the bullet and accepted the slippage penalty after fumbling three solid trading opportunities in a row. You know that feeling—you see the move happening, you hesitate for a second, and boom, price already shifted against you. By the time I actually executed, I was eating the scalper markup just to get my position filled. Lesson learned: sometimes the cost of being wrong about timing is way steeper than the entry point itself. The spread doesn't care about your conviction—it just keeps widening while you're making up your mind.