Every trade you place on TradePesa runs through an automated liquidity pool, not a matched order book with other traders. That means the price you get depends on how much liquidity is sitting in that specific token's pool - a small trade against a deep pool barely moves the price, but a large trade against a thin pool can move it a lot, the same way it would in any low-liquidity market.

Fees. Every buy and every sell carries a 2% platform fee. That's not a penalty for losing trades - it applies to every trade, win or lose, and it's the platform's primary cost for running the liquidity behind every token.

The 8% per-trade price cap. To keep any single trade from swinging a token's price by an extreme amount in one shot, we cap how much a single buy or sell can move price at 8% - similar in spirit to the circuit breakers real stock exchanges use on individual stocks. If your order would move price further than that, it fills up to the cap and the rest carries over automatically until your full order is done, the same way a large real-world order gets filled across multiple price levels instead of one.

Why this matters for you. If you're trading a token with a very active, deep pool, you'll barely notice any of this. If you're trading a brand-new or thinly-traded token, expect price to move more per trade - that's not a bug, it's a direct reflection of how much real liquidity is backing that token right now.

We'd rather you understand exactly how pricing works than be surprised by it.