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89% of futures traders are liquidated in their first month because they trade against the house while the crowd is already squeezed into a corner. When I lost my first $5,400, I was staring at a breakout on $XRP, thinking it would rocket forever because my Twitter feed said so. I didn't look at the funding rate. I didn't look at the long/short ratio. I just looked at the candles. That emotional blindness is exactly what the whales are hunting for when they decide to flush the market.

If the funding rate is screaming positive, it means the market is becoming dangerously lopsided. When everyone is paying to hold a long position, you are essentially looking at a crowded elevator that is about to snap its cable. In my...