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Strategy #0000000141 · Market making and liquidity

Automated-market-maker liquidity provision
Enter initial pool value, relative price, cumulative fee percentage and costs; compare LP with holding.

A constant-product AMM trades automatically as reserve ratios change. Price moves alter the pool composition, creating impermanent loss versus simply holding; fees may offset some of it. Outcomes depend on the path, fee schedule, concentrated liquidity, arbitrage and contract risk. This page models only a simplified, equal-weight, full-range pool.

Beginner-friendlyAbout 8 minutesEvidence and practical analysis

Three ways in

Understand the story. Then inspect the risk.

Start with a familiar situation, check the payoff, then test how the numbers change.

The idea · in two minutes

After a price-ratio change, how does constant-product pool value plus fees compare with holding?

A constant-product AMM trades automatically as reserve ratios change. Price moves alter the pool composition, creating impermanent loss versus simply holding; fees may offset some of it. Outcomes depend on the path, fee schedule, concentrated liquidity, arbitrage and contract risk. This page models only a simplified, equal-weight, full-range pool.

Enter initial pool value, relative price, cumulative fee percentage and costs; compare LP with holding.

Omits concentrated liquidity, gas, MEV, dynamic fees, rebalancing, stablecoin depegs and smart-contract failures.

  • Input assumptionsEnter initial pool value, relative price, cumulative fee percentage and costs; compare LP with holding.
  • Model outputOmits concentrated liquidity, gas, MEV, dynamic fees, rebalancing, stablecoin depegs and smart-contract failures.

Illustrative research examples only. They are not live signals or a recommendation.

Variants · same family, different risk levers

Models, contract terms and implementation can change results.

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Related strategyRelationshipWhat changesNew cost or risk
Base scenarioManual inputsA constant-product AMM trades automatically as reserve ratios change. Price moves alter the pool composition, creating impermanent loss versus simply holding; fees may offset some of it. Outcomes depend on the path, fee schedule, concentrated liquidity, arbitrage and contract risk. This page models only a simplified, equal-weight, full-range pool.Omits concentrated liquidity, gas, MEV, dynamic fees, rebalancing, stablecoin depegs and smart-contract failures.
Conservative versionHigher cost/lossStress higher costs, larger losses or lower liquidity.May lower scenario returns.
Validation versionData reviewTest model inputs with consistent contracts and timestamps.Needs licensed, representative data.

Omits concentrated liquidity, gas, MEV, dynamic fees, rebalancing, stablecoin depegs and smart-contract failures.

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References

Primary sources and research used to describe the strategy and its limits.

  1. 01Cartea, Drissi & Monga (2024), Predictable Loss and Optimal Liquidity Provisionresearch