89% of futures traders are liquidated in their first month. I was one of them, staring at a screen while my $5,400 life savings evaporated into the pockets of an exchange I shouldn't have been playing with. Most people think they are traders because they have a Binance account and a dream, but you aren’t trading; you are just participating in a sophisticated slot machine where the house never loses. I remember the exact moment I realized I was doing it wrong. I was long on $ETH at 50x leverage, convinced I was a "trader" because I was glued to the 5-minute candles. I wasn't analyzing; I was panicking. Every tick against me felt like a personal insult, and every tick for me felt like a reason to buy more, until the...