Contracts liquidate people every day, spot is buying zero-valuation “air coins,” yet people rush in every day—why?
The reason is simple: most people don’t realize that what they open is not “a few times” leverage—they’re using their entire life savings to gamble with their lives.
With an account of 15k U, what they can truly afford to lose might only be 600 U.
Right away opening a position of 75k U—if the market moves against you by just 2%, it’s wiped out.
They say they’re trading, but in essence it’s like buying lottery tickets.
Real futures veterans never open orders every day.
Most of the time, they wait.
They wait for panic, for volume expansion, for the trend—only when others lose their nerve and make a mess do they act.
The most profitable time for futures is never when you trade frequently; it’s when you wait for that clear-cut, high-certainty setup.
I have two iron rules:
Per-trade loss does not exceed 1.5% of the account. After two consecutive losing trades, stop immediately and don’t watch the charts that day.
Take-profit isn’t rushed. After profits are in, move the stop loss upward so the gains can run.
Most people do the opposite: if they lose, they stubbornly hold on; if they win, they run immediately.
In the end, they lose more and more, while they earn less and less.
Fewer and fewer people keep their accounts after a few years, because they didn’t understand this: futures isn’t about having the biggest nerve—it’s about calculating risk.
People who make money first ask whether it’s worth doing, then how much they can realistically make.
Recently, signals on the chart have already appeared. I’ve been watching for three days—the market is about to start.
Follow Xin Jie—let you quickly get back to breakeven and turn it into a full reversal of positions.