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89% of futures traders are liquidated in their first month. Here is what the 11% do differently: they stop viewing leverage as a tool for profit and start viewing it as a tool for distance. When I was down $5,400 in my first year, I treated 50x leverage like a multiplier for my ego. I didn't understand that the higher the leverage, the closer the exchange moves the goalposts of my liquidation price. Let's look at the cold, hard math using a $SOL entry at $150.00. At 10x leverage, your liquidation price sits at roughly $136.50, giving you a 9% breathing room before you are wiped out. Bump that to 20x, and your liquidation price jumps to $143.25, leaving you with a razor-thin 4.5% margin. If you get greedy and...