89% of futures traders are liquidated in their first month. I was one of them, staring at a screen while my $ETH position evaporated because I confused a volatile swing for a life-changing investment. Most people come here thinking they are investors, but they are actually just gambling with a calculator. Think of it like this: investing is owning a house and waiting for the neighborhood to improve, while trading is trying to flip that same house every fifteen minutes while it is burning down. You can’t live in a house you are constantly trying to sell for a profit of two percent.

Last year, I held $RENDER during a massive breakout. Instead of sitting on my hands, I treated it like a high-octane trading vehicle. I leveraged it at...