Remember those 100x SOL trades that ate my $5,400? Perpetual futures feel like they were purpose-built to extract capital from us, not for us to get rich. The platforms profit immensely from our volume and, crucially, our liquidations. Institutions use them for hedging or complex strategies, often exploiting funding rate arbitrage that slowly bleeds small accounts like ours. Our high leverage, their consistent profit. We provide the volatility and the liquidity for their bigger games. It's a game of inches for them, and a game of quick death for us. Are we truly trading, or are we just the fuel for a system designed to profit from our inevitable mistakes?
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