hiddencosts

Small numbers that quietly eat portfolios.

0.1% trading fee sounds like nothing. Trade in and out three times a week and that is 0.6% a week, roughly 31% a year on your active capital.

1% TDS on every crypto sale in India. Not an extra tax, a deduction you claim back, but it locks your capital until you file.

Funding rates on futures. 0.01% every 8 hours is about 11% a year to hold a leveraged long. It adds up while you sleep.

Spread on low liquidity coins. 2% to buy, 2% to sell, before price moves at all.

None of these show up as a loss on your PnL card. All of them show up in your account a year later.

Did you ever add up your fees for a full year? Try it once. It changes behaviour.

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Fam, listen. I overlooked a deadly drain chasing 100x: trading fees. They're like a tiny, constant drip from a faucet that eventually fills a bucket – silently draining your funds.

When I was hammering leveraged ADA, DOGE, SOL trades (sometimes 50x), I'd often have $50,000 notional positions. The fee? Just 0.02%, or $10. Tiny, right? But 50 trades a month? That’s $500, gone, just to fees. Every month. Win or lose, exchange took its cut. This was a silent killer, eating into any profits and accelerating my losses.

A big chunk of my $5,400 loss was pure fees. Don't let these invisible drains bleed you dry. Always account for what you’re *actually* paying.

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