Where slow cook sits in the taxonomy
LP styles on Meteora sort by two axes: how long you hold and how old the token is. The strategy ladder runs heart attack (seconds to minutes, brand-new tokens), quick flips, launch session, day-old session, week-old session, and finally slow cook.
Slow cook means tokens over a week old and positions running for days. It needs the largest bankroll of the six styles, often hundreds of SOL for serious practitioners.
What you get and what it costs
The good: big losses get rare once a token has survived a week or more. You monitor rather than babysit. The bad: gains per SOL are the lowest of all six styles, and the most SOL stays locked up.
Practically, day-old and week-old sessions are the on-ramp. A token a day past launch that has survived one dump, SOL-only, generally bid-ask shape, monitored rather than watched. Week-old positions then extend the hold and the range.
Running it without a bot
Slow cook rewards the same operational habits that automation encodes: check in-range status on a schedule rather than by mood, claim fees on a threshold instead of whenever you remember, and pre-decide the conditions that force an exit.
If a position is out of range, the move is a planned rebalance, not a panic recenter. Our rebalancing guide covers the manual loop in detail.