89% of futures traders are liquidated in their first month. Here is what the 11% do differently. When I was burning through $5,400 of my savings in the early days, I treated leverage like a volume knob on a stereo, cranking it to 50x to force a win on $BTC. I thought I was aggressive; I was actually just playing a rigged game against myself. Liquidation is not bad luck. It is a mathematical certainty you build into your own coffin the moment you click "Buy" without calculating your distance to the liquidation price.

Think of leverage like a rubber band. The more leverage you apply, the tighter you pull the band. If the market moves even slightly against you, that tension snaps back, hitting your entry price and erasing your...