89% of futures traders are liquidated in their first month. I was one of them, staring at a screen while my $XRP long got nuked into oblivion because I thought I was smarter than the order book. I chased a 15% green candle, went 50x, and watched the wick sweep my liquidity in seconds. I’ve spent enough money on tuition to the market to know that if you aren't doing these three things, you’re just donating your paycheck to the exchange whales.

First, you must set your stop-loss the exact second you enter a trade because hope is not a strategy when you're staring at a $DOT breakdown. If you don’t have an exit price programmed before you click buy, you are just waiting for a red candle to paralyze your brain until you get...