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89% of futures traders are liquidated in their first month. Here is what the 11% do differently. When I first started, I treated my stop loss as a suggestion rather than a survival mechanism. I watched $5,400 vanish in a single afternoon because I kept moving my stop further away, hoping for a bounce that never came. A stop loss is not a guess; it is a declaration of where your thesis is invalidated.

To place a stop correctly, you must read the market structure rather than using arbitrary percentage cuts. If I am longing $BTC at $62,000, I look for the most recent swing low or the liquidity sweep level below local support. If $BTC breaks below that technical floor, the setup is dead. Period. For $ADA, which is more...