Topic: If i have 1k how to trade future - page 5. (Read 690 times)

"Margin" and "safe trade" shouldn't really be in the same sentence. That's exactly why people use margin — to increase risk, for potentially more profit(or losses); not for their trades to be more safe lol.

And if you're asking these types of questions, you're better off not using futures trading.

Very correct cos OP's question suggests lack of experience in trading and he's trying to minimize his loss while He's practicing. But why jump into doing the  real thing with limited experience?. You need to learn and learn well before fully engaging. This question is  part of the information you should gather when learning and using demo accounts, so you don't land yourself into trouble and lose out precious funds outrightly. I just hope you're using a demo account to avoid had I known.

No about of leverage can be considered safe. Leverage by its very nature is taking on a lot of EXTRA risk above and beyond the normal risk of trading, which is already high.

And I'd say don't do futures, that just increases the risk even further!

I've never done any futures stuff or options or whatever, but from what I can tell futures is just betting on the price of something for a specific amount of time. That's riskier than putting in a trade and waiting for your sell order to hit, because with futures there is a specific end time. It is straight up time-based betting.


If you want to make money in a lower risk (still not safe) way, spot trade with no leverage. If you are successful you will gradually build up your trading stash over the long term. You should prove to yourself that you are good enough at trading to make money by spot trading with your $1000. If you haven't even proven to yourself that you can be really successful in trading, then your leveraged futures trading strategy is based on you hoping to get lucky which is always an awful strategy and if you're leveraging your money then that could not just be awful for totally disastrous for you. Personally I would NEVER trade on margin. Far too risky. That's how people financially ruin themselves.

You can use whatever margin you want but everything has risks. If you can accept the risk, you can continue trading. If market conditions are moving well, you can hold the position for up to two days or even three days before closing the trade.

But it will depend on the coin. I usually use small leverage under 5x-10x because trading in futures is very risky. If you can't analyze, it's better to avoid trying in future trading. You should continue learning to use spot trading until you can analyze it well.

And don't use $1k to trade but use $1k to invest every month using DCA. That will give you profits if you want to avoid analyzing.

Don't use all your fund $1000 for future trading and left around 200$ to 300$ to make far away with liquidation price, actually its bigger fund $1000 for future trading and you have use small leverage around x3 to x5. Future trading is risk trading with potential liquid notification and all your capital loss but have advantage with future trading to earn profit not waiting price coins up but you can earn profit when market dump by opening short position. First time with future trading better use as small leverage and don't try with most bigger leverage until 125x due close with liquidation.

Looking for good exchange have lower fees for future trading, regarding Binance have bigger fees exactly when your position more than 8 hours you have to pay funding fees beside with your future trading transaction when opening and close position.

You can always be safe if you stay away from margin trade or futures trading. Because it behaves like gambling.  With Bitcoin you can leverage up to 125x where if the price moves towards your target it will bring you a big profit and if the price moves in the opposite direction of your target you will face a huge loss which can make your balance 0 and its  Then panic and don't hesitate to invest more and take 2x leverage from the previous period which will gradually lead you to more losses.

If you want to trade somewhat safe then never take more than 3x leverage. This may make your profit less and slower but the loss will be the same. So always the less leverage you can take the better for you. Because too much leverage will always keep you tense and prevent you from making decisions with a cool head. Which will always cause your loss

Trading is risky so there is nothing called as safe trade. When you open a trading position, it's a risky one and you can lose money with it. So don't trade if you can not afford to lose money.

I would never let my trading position opens over night or let's say more than 24 hours. I usually close my position after like 4 hours, 6 hours or 12 hours, I don't like to let it opens longer.

When you use leverages, it is more risky than no leverage. As I said, trading is risky already and when you use leverages for your trading, the risk is bigger. Don't use leverage!

What do you mean by "safe trade"? Do you want to avoid risk as much as possible? Do you want to make sure you still end up with 1K when the trade ends? Your question has a lot of hidden assumptions like your risk profile, your profit target, etc. Nobody can handhold you to do your margin trade with just that information, and you should not rely on some random advice from strangers, to begin with.

Maybe you should learn and practice on a demo trading platform or trade with some spare funds to get familiar with how the market works first. Experience is as important as having money to trade, especially in such a risky environment like margin trading.

Don’t use 100% of your capital in one trade and use the lowest possible margin such as x2 to x3 only per position.  Lastly, don’t trade a very volatile assets which you can determine using price chart, those token print huge wick are the one that is too volatile which not advisable to trade using margin because it can liquidate or stop loss your position in just a quick period of time.

Stop loss will help you to minimize your risk but since you are only using partial margin and lower leverage. I think your position will last longer.

The leverage you should use will depend on the coins you want to trade. There are some altcoins that do not need leverage at all. There are some that require you to trade with less than your trading fund.  But if you are talking about bitcoin, it depends on how good you are but do not go more than 3x.

If ihave 1k how much to use margin for safe trade

To hold position for say two days

And which safe laverage to use