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Currently running around 6% on WETH/USDC, with chop protection widening that to 12% when the market gets volatile. The idea is to keep a reasonably tight range during normal conditions, but avoid constantly rebalancing when price starts moving back and forth. Still experimenting with whether that works out better than just running a wider range permanently. What pairs are you running?

Tracking fees without a hold benchmark is how most LPs end up fooling themselves. The honest number is position value plus fees and rewards, minus what the same starting tokens would be worth if you had just held them. A tight range on a volatile pair is basically selling volatility. Fees are the premium, and the bill arrives when price runs through your range and you end up holding all of the side that underperformed. The structural part of that even has a name, loss-versus-rebalancing: arbitrageurs trade against your stale price every time the market moves, so you are the slow side of every repricing by design. A 2021 study of 17 Uniswap v3 pools found roughly half of LPs finished behind simply holding. Two things specific to your setup: - On Aerodrome's concentrated pools, a staked position earns AERO emissions rather than the swap fees, which go to voters. So a big chunk of that APR is really a bet on AERO holding its price. - Every rebalance into a trending move locks in the loss and resets you at the new price. That is why range-chasing WETH/USDC tends to lose to a wide range left alone. Wider ranges and fewer touches is the right instinct. I'd log net-vs-hold weekly, and if it stays negative through a couple of big moves, the pair is paying you less than its volatility costs you.

I've been running a few concentrated liquidity positions on Base and I'm starting to question how much attention we should really be paying to the advertised APR. I've experimented with tighter ranges on WETH/USDC and AERO pairs, but the problem always seems to be what happens when the market makes a bigger move. You earn decent fees while you're in range, then you're faced with rebalancing, potentially locking in losses, and hoping the market doesn't reverse straight afterwards. I've been leaning towards wider ranges and fewer adjustments lately, rather than trying to squeeze every bit of yield out of a position. I'm interested in how others are managing this. Are you actively rebalancing your positions, using automation, or just setting wider ranges and leaving them alone? And are you actually comparing your net returns against holding the underlying tokens, or mostly tracking fees and rewards?