How tough is futures in comparison to spot trading

[Lanatsa]

I plan to learn futures trading and dive into it fully, I've been demo trading for a while now and I've been doing fine and I think I can make the big jump now maybe because the exchange I'm using is offering events for first time futures traders lol

But I'm sure you guys have traded futures a lot, how hard is it compared to spot?

Not as tough as people think it is, because futures doesn't mean high leverage all the time, you could have low leverage as well, hell you could just bet on a certain date basically. The problem is the leverages, if you do like x150 then you are not going to end up with any profit most likely and even if you do once, if you keep doing it eventually you will be wrong and you will lose it all.

I would say that spot trading is easier, you get to make 1-3% profit per day easily if you know what you are doing, do that over course of one year, and you are going to have an insane return. I know you can't make 1-3% daily return of course, but you could make on average 50%+ profit per year. Do that for 20 years and you are wealthy beyond your dreams.

One of the main reasons on why people do really ends up on having that failure when it comes to futures trading is that they do really intend to set those bars too high or simply making those leverage on max
on which they dont even think about on the risks that involves on which it would causing up for their capital to bust up in a short period of time whenever the market would really be going opposite on what they had predicted or anticipated. Somehow despite of the risks involved into it, theres still those traders who do really that loving on dealing up with 50x to 100x or more but just like on what you have said that you could
set those leverage lower on which it would really be something that gets in line with your risks management.

Just like on what everyone is telling that you would really be needing to make yourself that doing well with spot trading before you would be diving in with futures trading.
Somehow even myself cant really that perform well on futures despite on trading up for so long with spot, this is why it would really be something situational.

[johnsaributua]

Like 2 rippling water currents, I mean futures trading is very steep, even so you can set how much to borrow at initial entry (leverage) of course can take two trend directions into profit if the analysis has a good probability, on the contrary, it will be liquidated if it is too deep and the assets in the futures wallet are not able to withstand, for me this is trading event / I go with the maximum profit I think as soon as possible.

While spot is safer, even if the bearish trend your assets remain intact even though the value is reduced also tends not to be wild and I usually for the long term / hodl sell when the bearish trend only.

The idea of futures trading is an innovation of cex and trading activists, true spot trading is conventional trading worth trading assets and its true function.

[Barikui1]

I plan to learn futures trading and dive into it fully, I've been demo trading for a while now and I've been doing fine and I think I can make the big jump now maybe because the exchange I'm using is offering events for first time futures traders lol

But I'm sure you guys have traded futures a lot, how hard is it compared to spot?

As a newbie trader, I would advice you to stick to spot trading because it's mostly buying and selling, in other words, you buy low and sell high, but the future market is more difficult because you predict the movement of the market, if it goes your way, you make money and if it goes against you you lose money.

Secondly, talking of demo trading which you have been doing for sometime now according to you, and you have been successful in it, I want you to have it at the back of your mind that demo trading is nothing compared to live trading, because in demo trading their is no emotions like fear and greed, so just know that you stand a very high chances of losing a whole lot of money if you can't control your emotions when trading live, but I would advice you to keep off for now, till you are more knowledgeable enough in the craft, and know all it entails and how to navigate your way in the market and be profitable, or due you want to learn the hard way?

I would just advice you to keep off for now, because it's for your own good.

[fuguebtc]

I plan to learn futures trading and dive into it fully, I've been demo trading for a while now and I've been doing fine and I think I can make the big jump now maybe because the exchange I'm using is offering events for first time futures traders lol

But I'm sure you guys have traded futures a lot, how hard is it compared to spot?

As a newbie trader, I would advice you to stick to spot trading because it's mostly buying and selling, in other words, you buy low and sell high, but the future market is more difficult because you predict the movement of the market, if it goes your way, you make money and if it goes against you you lose money.

Secondly, talking of demo trading which you have been doing for sometime now according to you, and you have been successful in it, I want you to have it at the back of your mind that demo trading is nothing compared to live trading, because in demo trading their is no emotions like fear and greed, so just know that you stand a very high chances of losing a whole lot of money if you can't control your emotions when trading live, but I would advice you to keep off for now, till you are more knowledgeable enough in the craft, and know all it entails and how to navigate your way in the market and be profitable, or due you want to learn the hard way?

I would just advice you to keep off for now, because it's for your own good.

The mistake that many traders make is that they use a demo account for a long time and they think that if they can be successful with a demo account then they can do the same with a real account. Demo trading is really ineffective because as you said, we have no emotions while emotions account for 90% of the decision of success or failure when we participate in real trading.

What's more worrying is that although OP is new to the market, he already has the idea of ​​becoming a futures trader, which means he has a get-rich-quick mindset. Those with a get-rich-quick mindset often do not achieve good results when participating in the market. If OP actually listens to everyone's advice, I also hope he stays away from futures trading.

[Mr. Magkaisa]

I plan to learn futures trading and dive into it fully, I've been demo trading for a while now and I've been doing fine and I think I can make the big jump now maybe because the exchange I'm using is offering events for first time futures traders lol

But I'm sure you guys have traded futures a lot, how hard is it compared to spot?

       -   Spot and futures trading have the same risk that will affect our fund if the method we used is not correct in itself. It's just that when it comes to the actual action of the trading activity in the futures trade, it's only slightly higher in terms of risk level compared to the spot.

In the spot, whatever fund you have placed to be traded is the only one that can be lost or reduced from your fund because it is isolated; unlike futures, if you make a mistake in setting up and you put it in the cross margin, your fund will be scrapped. especially your understanding of trading, which is shallow. So intelligence and understanding of trading are needed here.

[bitLeap]

I plan to learn futures trading and dive into it fully, I've been demo trading for a while now and I've been doing fine and I think I can make the big jump now maybe because the exchange I'm using is offering events for first time futures traders lol

But I'm sure you guys have traded futures a lot, how hard is it compared to spot?

When I first started, I also had optimism like you, as if Future trading seemed to be easy to control, because I had done it many times in the demo and on the testnet exchange platform, but believe me, that was not enough. There are many factors that must be considered when you want to dive straight in with real capital. You also need to prepare 50/50 liquidity to really be a little safe. Using maximum leverage may give you more time, if you use a short timeframe, small capital will only make you lose quickly. For this reason, I recommend applying future trading methods with a scheme such as spot trading.