This might sound stupid I don't know, but I have been into Bitcoin for 2 years now , I run my own node , only buy p2p , Coldcard , the whole shootin-bang right , but I cannot seem to "time" the mempool .

When opening and closing lightning channels , it is always beneficial to wait until the fee's are low and the mempool is quiet, and maybe it's just cause ordinals are just jacking the price or whatever , but I can never seem to find this window of opportunity that everyone talks about when opening and closing channels or timing the right time to send an onchain transaction to minimise fees .

Do you have to be watching the mempool 24/7 or something ? Is there some kind of updates on fees that you can setup?