Why Did Every Futures Trader I Know Eventually Hit a Wall?
I didn’t come into crypto futures unprepared. I charted obsessively, managed risk with precision, and stayed ruthlessly focused. For a while, I believed effort and discipline would be enough. But over time, a quieter truth started to emerge—one that haunted not just me, but nearly every trader I knew. No matter how skilled, we all ended up exhausted, questioning the logic of something that never quite added up.
It wasn’t just about bad trades or poor timing. I started to sense a pattern in the price moves—reactions that felt too precise, too opportunistic. Like someone always knew what we were about to do. That’s when I began studying the exchanges themselves. The more I learned, the clearer it became: we weren’t trading against each other—we were trading inside a structure where the advantage was already claimed.
The hardest part was accepting it: I wasn’t failing because I lacked edge—I was failing because I was never meant to win long-term.
