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89% of futures traders are liquidated in their first month. I was one of them, staring at a screen while $5,400 of my hard-earned capital vanished into the ether because I didn't understand that the market is a machine designed to harvest liquidity from the majority. When you look at the funding rate and the long/short ratio for coins like $XRP and $DOT, you aren’t looking at technical analysis; you are looking at a heat map of where the pain is about to be inflicted. An extremely positive funding rate is a neon sign screaming that the trade is too crowded. When everyone is paying to hold a long position, the market makers have a massive incentive to trigger a cascade of liquidations to reset the balance.

I learned the...