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89% of futures traders are liquidated in their first month. I was one of them, watching my account evaporate while trying to turn a $200 deposit into a retirement fund using 100x leverage. When I started, I thought $BTC futures were just a way to trade $BTC with more buying power. I was dead wrong. Spot trading means you own the underlying asset. If you buy $AVAX on spot and the price drops 20%, you still own the exact same amount of $AVAX; you just have to wait for the market to rotate. In futures, you don't own a single satoshi of $BTC or a single token of $AVAX. You are merely betting on the direction of a price derivative, and the exchange is betting that you will run out of margin before the price moves in your...