89% of futures traders are liquidated in their first month. I was one of them, watching my account vanish into the void of 20x leverage because I treated every trade like an all-or-nothing casino bet. Most people think trading is about picking the right direction, but that is a rookie lie. The real game isn't predicting the market; it is managing your entry and exit so you stay alive long enough to actually see a profit. If you are entering your full position size at once, you are begging the exchange to liquidate you. When I started trading $ETH and $OP, I stopped going "all-in" and started scaling.

Here is the math that saved my trading career. Instead of dumping my entire collateral into one $ETH long, I split my intended...