testing @DriftProtocol for the first time in over a year
ngl, last i remember the fees and fills were horrible, even on small size, and made the product unusable, but i just talked to @airtightfish and he said they've onboarded more MMs and most volume is met with JIT liq now -

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onboarding:
they embed some options to deposit/bridge - i would like to see more teams using solvers instead of bridges so that i can deposit literally any asset from any chain...
it's fine though, i already have $50 from the drift team and .02 SOL in this wallet.
oh wait-

let's look for a trade. MACD+RSI enabled for maximum male astrology effect.
okay, sure, small size let's punt long.
wait, wtf is this? I thought i enabled "swift" - you're making me sign a txn?
okay lemme close this and see what happens
click 1: opens up this popup.

okay and for the past several seconds after signing in Phantom, there's been a popup saying "awaiting confirmation" and my trade still shows as open.
okay and now it says this - nah. completely unusable.
had to go through the 3 click trade process again and this time it goes

maybe the way to use this platform is to set TP/SL, walk away, and let the trade play out....
when i go to set that up, the UI is completely unintuitive
when i configure a stop loss, the % i want to look at is the % of my collateral lost.
when i click these preconfigs, it's