Buy Orders

Interactive Guide

Slippage

Slippage is the difference between the price you anticipate for a trade and the actual price at which it executes, often influenced by market volatility or low liquidity.

A higher slippage setting can speed up trade execution but increases the risk of being sandwiched (leading to unfavorable prices and reduced returns). A lower slippage setting reduces these risks but may prevent the tx from executing.

Gas

Gas is the fee for processing Solana transactions. The more gas you use, the faster your tx will be processed.

MEV Protection and Anti-MEV Tips

When you use high slippage, your tx becomes susceptible to sandwich attacks. A sandwich attack is when MEV bots see your tx, buy ahead of you, raise the price, then sell, making you pay a higher price and lowering your returns.

MEV protection on Sigma shields you from this by routing your txs through private relays, but may make your tx slower. Adding an anti-MEV tip prioritizes your tx being processed when MEV protection is on.