Why DEX Analytics and Liquidity Pools Are the Missing Map for DeFi Traders

Okay, so check this out—DeFi feels like the Wild West, but with prettier charts. Whoa! For real: one wrong click and you can lose a trade, or worse, capital. My first impression was simple: price charts are fine, but they don’t tell the whole story. Something felt off about looking only at candles when the underlying liquidity is the real muscle behind price moves. Initially I thought volume was the universal signal, but then I realized that on-chain liquidity depth and pool composition tell you whether that volume actually matters. Seriously? Yeah. Liquidity is the difference between a bump and a wipeout. Medium traders get it. Newbies often don’t. On one hand, a token can show rising volume; on the other hand, if most of the liquidity is locked in a tiny pool with a big whale, your stop-loss might as well be a suggestion. I learned this the hard…