Well, I'm going straight --are you successful now? I hope you will...
Honestly, whether you are in futures trading or spot trading, if you don't have good trading knowledge, you still end up losing your money. And it was not just a matter of choosing an exchange but also, the coins we used. Don't get too emotional and choose meme coins because of the hype and market popularity these days instead, look at their potentiality. Think that hyped projects never stay long like that and it was not surprising for a sudden drop because that is really how it works. Maybe it works now and you earn profit but never assume the situation remains and it gives favors to you OP. Better think of another option, don't focus on meme coins for at least having some assurance of not losing all of your money.
its honestly the same risk whether its meme coin or future trading (the long ones) because if coin go zero then our money go zero as long as we don't over leverage, I think OP in this case prefer meme coin because he always over leverage with future trading.
just using 1-2x leverage already suffice honestly, also there are many perpetuals of solana meme coin in exchange as well, so far I have the quite opposite experience if compared with OP, i find future trading a lot easier to make profit with the market sideways rather than meme coin.
doesn't matter how hard I try always got the worst meme coin ever and somehow losing because the sudden dump, I guess difference in preference and strategy matter a lot in this case but personally I could never find that 1 in a thousand chance with my bad luck so I just settle with future trading and reasonable decision making.
the problem that I encountered with trading meme coin is that finding meme coin that is legit and could make it to hundred of millions market cap requires good luck to begin with and in raydium for example where solana meme coin growing as if there's no tomorrow there are so many meme coins.
usually when I found one good meme coin its already in the market cap of hundred millions that means i'm more likely to lose in my trades.
therefore I just decided that its not for me just like you stated. good knowledge matters.