#Slippage101
Slippage occurs when someone wants to buy or sell something in the market, but the price changes at the last second.
Imagine entering an ice cream shop and the price of the ice cream at the register is higher or lower than the price displayed in the window when you entered. Strange, right?
This can happen because many people are buying and selling at the same time, so prices fluctuate very quickly.
Sometimes, you end up paying more than you wanted, and other times you might even pay less than you expected!
To avoid this problem, traders do a few things: they carefully choose the moments to buy and sell, use special tools that help ensure the right price, and choose markets where there are many people trading so that prices don't change so quickly.
So slippage is more or less about that.
