I don’t advise futures trading — not because it’s impossible to win, but because it’s structurally designed to destroy small capital.

Let’s start with leverage. Futures amplify everything: gains, losses, emotions, and mistakes. A 1–2% price move against you can wipe out weeks or months of progress. According to exchange statistics, over 70–90% of retail futures traders lose money, and most of those losses come from leverage, fees, and liquidations — not bad analysis.

Now compare this with trading alpha coins (spot or no leverage).

Alpha coins move differently.

It’s normal to see 20–100% moves over days or weeks. Volatility works for you, not against you. There are no liquidations, no funding fees, and no forced closes. Your position can survive noise, manipulation, and time.

Risk vs Reward Comparison

Futures trading:

  1. Small price moves (1–3%)

  2. High leverage

  3. Funding fees every 4-8 hours (1hour)

  4. High commissions due to overtrading

  5. Liquidation risk = total loss

  6. Time works against you

Alpha coin trading (spot):

  1. Large asymmetric moves

  2. No liquidation

  3. No funding fees

  4. Lower psychological pressure

  5. Time can work in your favor

  6. Capital remains alive

Now let’s talk about micro balances.

Most people don’t trade futures because it’s smart — they trade them because their capital is small. When you have $200 or $500, slow growth feels meaningless. So people chase leverage, hoping for fast results. What they actually chase is their last chance.

That’s how poor traders get poorer.

I know this firsthand.

Over three years of futures trading, I irreversibly lost more than $15,000. Not in one blow — slowly, through fees, funding, overtrading, and liquidations. On futures, once you’re liquidated, the money is gone forever. U may be more lucky, and win all time thinking u are smart enough, untill smth unpredictable happened...

With alpha coins, even bad entries leave you something: time and probability. A new cycle, a new narrative, a second chance. Futures offer none of that.

The Real Lesson

  • Trading is not about maximizing profit.

It’s about surviving long enough to let probability work.

  • Capital preservation beats any strategy.

Because without capital, skill doesn’t matter.

  • Futures don’t forgive mistakes.

  • Spot alpha sometimes does.

And that difference decides who stays in the market — and who disappears from it.

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