(If you are starting, this can save you money, anxiety… and a liquidation)
When I saw that in Futures I could win even if the market went down, I thought: “This is for me.”
But what I didn't know was that… without understanding how it really works, I could lose EVERYTHING in seconds.
Here I share, from my experience, what I learned late (and I wish someone had told me earlier):
🧨 1. You are not buying the crypto, you are opening a contract.
In spot you buy Bitcoin, and that's it, you have it.
In Futures, you make an agreement to win if it goes up (long position) or if it goes down (short).
It's pure speculation. You own nothing.
📈 2. You use leverage: you earn faster, but you can also lose everything faster.
With $10 you can trade as if you had $50 or $100.
But if the price moves against you by 10%… your capital disappears.
I thought: “I leverage x10 to multiply.”
But I didn't understand that it also multiplied the risk.
💡 If you don't know how to control risk, don't use high leverage.
📉 3. Cross margin or isolated margin?
Crossed: all your available balance covers the loss. If you don't control it, you can lose more than you put in.
Isolated: only the balance you put in that operation is used. If it gets liquidated, the rest remains intact.
🔒 If you are starting: it's better to use isolated margin.
💥 4. What is liquidation?
If the price moves against you beyond what your balance can cover, Binance closes the operation and you lose everything you put in.
It doesn't matter if the price recovers later. It’s already done.
👉 That's why it's vital to use stop loss.
🛑 5. Stop Loss and Take Profit are not optional.
Stop Loss: you decide how much you are willing to lose.
Take Profit: you secure profits if the price reaches your target.
📌 Without this, you trade from emotion, not from strategy. And that's a recipe for disaster.
📊 6. How to know where the price is going? Look at the real trend.
At first, I looked at the 5-minute chart:
"It's going up, it's an uptrend!"
False. It was going down strongly on the daily.
✅ Always check 1D (daily) or 4H (4 hours) charts before trading.
There you see if you are in an uptrend, downtrend, or sideways.
👉 The 5 min shows you the noise. The daily shows you the map.
💡 7. You don't need to be glued all day. You need a plan.
In Futures, it's not about guessing the price movement.
It's about having a clear strategy:
— Where do I enter?
— Where do I exit if it goes well?
— Where do I exit if it goes wrong?
— How much of my capital do I risk?
If you don't know how to answer that, it's still not time for Futures.
🎯 Conclusion:
Entering Futures without understanding leverage, margins, risk management, and trend is like driving a Ferrari without brakes.
Yes, it can be exciting… but you can also crash.
Now I trade slower, more consciously, and with less anxiety.
It's not that it can't be done, it's that you have to know how.
💬 Comment if this post reached you just in time.
And if you've been liquidated before… I hug you, you are not alone, I was liquidated too 😭 and not just once.