Remember all those 12x-100x SOL and DOGE futures trades I talked about? The ones that ate my portfolio alive? A big chunk of that $5,400 wasn't just my bad calls. It was the constant drip-drip of fees. Every open, every close, every funding rate payment on leveraged positions. Exchanges profit whether you win or lose, but they *really* win when you trade often with leverage. Maker/taker fees might seem tiny, but when you're in and out multiple times a day on volatile assets, those fractions of a percent add up fast. It's a structural design: more trades = more fees, more leverage = higher funding rates. It's brilliant for them, brutal for us. Are you truly trading for profit, or just generating revenue for the exchange?

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