🧯 How to Enter Long/Short Orders Without Burning Your Account? – Futures Survival Guide

Hello everyone,

Futures trading can yield 100% profit after just one swing, but it can also wipe out your account due to a single adverse candle.

So how do you enter orders to avoid burning out? Here are 5 vital principles:

✅ 1. Only use 1–3% of your account per order

Never go All-in!

Each order should only use 1%–3% of the total capital (for example: a 1,000 USDT account → each order should only use 10–30 USDT margin).

➡️ Even if the order fails, you still have capital to come back.

✅ 2. Always set Stop Loss (SL) as soon as you enter an order

Not setting an SL is like burning your account!

If Long: set SL below the nearest low.

If Short: set SL above the nearest high.

Don't hope for "it to reverse"; the market doesn't care what you think.

✅ 3. Use reasonable leverage – the lower, the longer you survive

The higher the leverage → the closer the liquidation zone is to the entry price.

New traders should use x3–x5 at most.

Don't crave x20, x50… unless you accept burning out in one candle.

✅ 4. Enter orders according to the trend – do not try to catch tops and bottoms

Trading with the trend is always safer.

In an uptrend: prioritize Long when it corrects to support.

In a downtrend: prioritize Short when the price retraces to resistance.

Unclear trend? Stay out!

✅ 5. Manage emotions – No revenge trading

Just lost a trade and then enter again to “recover” = the first step to burning your account.

Consider each trade as a test of strategy. If you lose, take it as a lesson, not a reason to go crazy.