Topic: Why Beginners Should Not Go For Future Trading? (Read 716 times)

As you mentioned, it is not advisable for a newbie to do future trading because it is the opposite of spot trading. Especially if they don't have any ideas about crypto trading yet. If it's spot trading, it's confusing to do it, especially in future trading, it's just going to be more complicated on their part, that's the truth.

        Then it will really take time to learn it from the beginning before we can experience income from it. Because of experience we will learn whether the result of our trading activity is good or not.

I think the most important thing for beginners is Money management, because it is one of the keys in trading both futures and spot. This includes the ability to organize and manage owned capital, such as determining the size of trading positions and limiting possible losses. Strategy is also very important in trading, namely how to make decisions in dealing with situations that arise in the market. Strategy may include technical and fundamental analysis, or it may be a combination of the two.

Patience is also important in trading, as it is not always easy to wait for the right opportunity to trade. In making decisions, emotional control is also needed, because decisions taken emotionally can result in big losses. Risk control is also an important key in trading, because the market is always at risk and can change at any time.

If a beginner can manage all these aspects well then they can explore future and spot trading with more confidence. However, as previously mentioned, knowledge of the market is also very important. Beginners should learn about the basics of trading, market terminology and understand how the market operates.

Finally, it is also important to remember that trading always involves risk, and there is no guarantee that one will always make a profit. Therefore, a trader must always update his knowledge and follow market developments continuously to increase the chances of success and minimize the risk of losses.

I think that beginner should take start with investment and not with future trading because future trading for all traders even who are expert are very risky so I don't think that new comers will perform it well. Individuals cannot get profit through knowledge only but experience is also must because if a person cannot identify the fact until he face the situation himself. All type of trading are very risky either its future trading or spot trading so before going to engage in crypto I will suggest that first take step towards investment and if you become successful so also in the same time you will learn about trading so you can do both but first learn well about it.

It is true that when you begin your journey as a trader we become newbies on that particular field, however someone which is also a beginner on this market should not try to trade the markets at all as they will lose all their money at such a fast speed that it is unlikely that they will learn much from their mistakes, as an example I have seen newbies posting their experiences and some of the things they learned were how to use a stop loss, and while this is important this is something they could have learned by reading the first chapter of any decent trading book, and this means that whatever lessons they learned are superficial at best and will not protect them if they decide to keep trading.

Yes, we had started on being a noob which it would really be that understandable that we should really be that knowledgeable and skillful on the time that we do decide on touching up futures.It isnt really for the weak heart and it isnt for someone who is really that impulsive when it comes to their emotion because this would be the primary enemy once you do touch up with this.Even when you are dealing with spot trading then
there's no exemption to that.This is why, if you do have the plans on touching up futures then you should be mastering out that spot trade first and trying out to make yourself that sustainable or profiting
before you do go with futures.You should really make it as a standard.

All traders are beginners at start so they learn from their mistakes and success and I will say that not only for newbies but for all crypto trader future trading is full of risks. At start when people get the profit then he think that it's full of advantages but they do not realize that with the passage of time you will loss your whole money as future trading is not good source of making income. Every person think just only about its huge profit but do not thing about its percentage of Losing.

I think futures trading could be done by newbies as well, just open up a binance account and you will see it there and you can google what it is and give it a go. I am not saying they will or they should, I am just saying that it is a potential danger for them that is available to them on day one, which is why they should be extra careful about not doing things that they shouldn't do.

In the end, it's their own money and you cannot stop them from doing something that would be dangerous to do and they can end up doing it without caring about what the risks are or how much they could lose or how difficult it is to make money that way and just go right in and lose all they have.

I think if people already know about futures trading they are no longer beginners, usually beginners will immediately see the spot trading menu, if they do see futures trading in person they will definitely get notifications warning about the risks of futures trading for beginners, and of course they will avoid it.

If spot trading is difficult for you, futures trading is even worse. Because futures is leveraged trading, meaning if the market moves even a small of 1%, you might earn big or lose big. The worst thing is that the liquidation is too small. Unlike spot trading, you can't lose if you don't sell. That's why it's not recommendable for newbies.

When are facing the risk as a gambler that is why no matter how you are trading or what you are trading, we all need to bear the risk of the market no matter the kind of trader you are. Trading the future market has more risks than just normal investment. Need to to get the basics skill of the market before we plan going for future trading. As a future trader we need to understand the market first so as to learn about the market so that we are not going to incur so much loses. We are make one or two loses but that does not matter because consistency has a huge reward.

It is not only a problem for newbies but also for those who have a long experience with the market. Capital management is not easy and especially with the FT market, which fluctuates every second, this is an extremely risky space, not an opportunity.
When you do not have a good assessment of the trend, the necessary analytical skills, never participate with your own money and turn into a gambler through the cryptocurrency market.

If a beginner immediately goes into futures trading, then he will surely lose everything, since this is one of the most high-risk areas in trading. It is worth starting with spot trading and with small amounts, because the most important thing in the beginning is to determine a strategy that can make a profit. Because if you are only losing money, then what is the point of increasing the trading deposit if you will surely lose everything.

Maybe the title should be "Why Beginners Should Not Trade". Because even these beginners are not advised to do spot trades as well. We just cannot enter into something that we do not know. What beginners needed in order for them to trade is to study how cryptocurrencies work, what are they, and the various trading indicators.

I find trading tempting when I was a beginner back then because I was absolutely motivated by the big rise and fall of its prices. I was so eager at that time to multiply my savings so I can stop being an employee. In the end, investing and holding over time is the easiest way to profit when compared to active trading and the very risky futures trading.

I'm not an expert in trading but all I can say to newbies is to consider helping themselves first from learning trading to the lowest level (spot trading). It was not necessary we have to look for a huge profit from Futures trading but rather make priorities to prepare ourselves first before moving as it was not impossible if we really capable enough. With a lack of experience and knowledge, I can't really imagine if our trade will work well but instead, it is possible we lose our money too easily due to wrong market calls(buy and sell).

The number 1 reason why newbies cannot go direct to futures trading is because of the losing of their capital immediately, remember that there's no newbie trader who became successful consistent after their first investment in the future trading. But there are some instances that they can be lucky and win in their first trades but eventually; the market will take it back and also take all of his capital. For those who will start crypto trading, it is better if you will do spot 1st for you to become familiar how the market reacts, if you are losing huge amount money in spot then you can lose more money in futures. There are a lot of traders who cannot handle the stress because they lose their hard earned money in the futures trading. If you already understand the concept, the basics, the nature of trading then it is the right time to open an account in futures trading. It takes time to build, improve and enhance a trading skill that can help to become a profitable trader. Have a patience and get your confidence first. Remember that only 5% of the futures trader who are keep earning money from the market.

a demo account is different from a real account I think because future trading is very risky, so as a beginner it's better to do periodic sales than future trading.
it takes a long time to understand future sales can't keep up with the current trend behind the success of future traders how many they loses before they win

It was great that his friends are honest. This makes him cautious and he will now think twice first if he will engage on it or not because there are also friends who only likes to brag about their gains and they never confess how much losses they made. It can give someone a bad signal.

No wonder why we have so many newbies who cry and complain about their losses because they jump in the wrong path which are not really appropriate for their experience or knowledge. Spot trading is less risky but I think the profit that we can get here is also minimal but that's better and as long as we can maintain it, it was still going to be worthy at the end.

Your friends are right, they may have talked about the future trade. There you can earn a lot of money in an instant and lose all your money in an instant. It just depends on your trader leverage and liquidity. The more you trade futures with 10x, 15x, 20x the more ricks your wealth will lose. So one should never trade futures without proper training. You can easily profit from spot trading if you want, but it takes more time but less risk.

For some reason;
 - high-risk
 - lack of experience

Generally, Future trading is not suitable for them. Of course, they can do Future trading but it was best if they will do the spot trading first prior to this. We consider the thing called preparation and it was to know that spot trading is a good place to learn and gain experience. It was not really we have to stop someone if they wanted to jump Future Trading directly because as we know spot trading could also give us losses but must know the consequences of taking too risky trades if we don't have enough knowledge about it.

I can't say that you are right. It's a high risk, high gain strategy. If no one is making profits from future tradings, they who are doing it? And for what?
If you are a professional and know how the market movements works, then future trading is for you. Otherwise, you are better off doing spot or DCA. And also, you need deeper knowledge while doing spot trades too. Nothing is possible without proper knowledge. TA is the best way to gain knowledge I guess. And learning it should be the second priority. First should be gaining control over your emotions.

i think its too risky if you just learn future trading more than spot trading, future can make your money lose (liquidated).
in spot you will got liquidated, but your coin value will decrease when the market fall.
so i recommended to learn in spot trade first.

but if you want to master it you really have to learn about it, but with very little capital to see how far we can grow.
I've seen some of my friends do that, they say it's very easy for you to get money and also lose money.

Have you get profit from futures trading?

I don't request you to show proof of your Futures trading profit because it is your personal information and privacy, I respect it. If did not get profit from Futures trading, please don't say it is a type of profitable trading.

It is one of most risky trading types and should avoid by newbies and all traders.

Trading with demo and real account are very different. You can not succeed in real account trading just because your demo trading stats look good.

Trading with small capital is easily as it contains very little pressure. If I trade with $100 and lose it, I won't lose my life.
Trading with big capital or bet all my asset, my life in trading is very high pressure and stressful. If I sold my house, use all money to trade and lose with my trades, I will lose my life.

Emotional impact would be small with small capital and would be big with big capital.

The Time duration before anyone should switched from spot trading to future trading should or has to be that trader having years of experience in spot in trading. From you statement it's looking like if someone has couple good months in trading then they can switch but that shouldn't be recommended as they will lose all their capital if they do such.

From my little knowledge, I would advise any trader just starting that they should trade for one full Bitcoin cycle before trying other trading experience. If you're comfortable trading Bitcoin during the bull market and also the bear market and you are making profits then you can trade any type of trading form spot to future trading etc.

Beginners have to be mindful when they try this futures, trading can be more risky if you decided to be more greedy. You should not rush your profit in trading, just take the process and learn accordingly. Though mistakes are pretty normal, I just don’t like the idea of doing your trades even if you are still not capable to do so and you just made your decision because of someone’s advices. If you want to succeed in trading, you should be able to learn everything at the right time.

3 major mistakes to avoid when trading cryptocurrency futures markets:

• Derivatives contracts differ from spot trading in pricing and trading
• Discounted futures sometimes come with surprises
• Higher fees and price decoupling should be considered

Having enough money is not a guarantee of making good trades or profit nor sustaining your account in futures trading because you will eventually lose it all if you don't have the right mindset and emotional balance required. This is true about trading. Having the right strategy and applying stop loss will guide a trader to do better than throwing in everything in pursuit of profit. We have to reduce our action for profit and channel it to gradual accumulation of profit.

But of course, that's a fact. Anyway, that's if one gets the set skills for it right before venturing into it. Anyone who is conversant with Forex Trading won't find Futures difficult, even if they're noobs in crypto trading. In comparison, Futures is on the speed lane while Spot is on the service lane. That's the way I tend to look at it. Even if one uses a very low leverage in Futures, one can still lose it all. That's not the case with Spot trading. One's coins stay the same when traded in Spot, only losing value which can be regained later. It's not that way with Futures.

Beginners are putting big money into future trading to get higher profits. But they don't have a proper risk and reward management plan. End of the day they will lose their money.  My suggestion is to start as an investor and analyze the market cycle. After a few years, they can start future trading. Also, to have a better understanding, they can use paper trading.

Learning to trade is important for those who are new to the world of trading. It is not right to join advanced level trading as a beginner. Almost everyone has a basic knowledge of futures trading. Where the possibility of liquidation is high. Therefore, instead of going in that direction, We should learn general trading as the beginner. If one has enough money of his own then he can involve futures trading by acquitting enough knowledge.

Futures trading is indeed profitable, but a crypto beginner should not venture into it in a hurry. I have lost money before in futures trading, but I have not done so since then.

Unless a newbie is practising regularly with demo, as you mentioned, he or she should not hastily start future trading. Few CEX I used don't have demo accounts, but on radar they only sometimes give trial funds to practice futures trading. If you utilize the trial funds and make a profit, then the profit is yours.

If I have huge amount of capital, I will never try future trading. Generally, I think people who go into future trading are inpatients and are opportunities who always want to make big profits regardless of the volatility, they wabr something big even with small capital, they want to eat their cake and still have it and the truth is future is one of the riskiest investment any person would want to induldge in, it is possible to be lucky but the probability of making it out of future trading is very low, I will always advice people to do spot instead and with patience, you can make something out from it.

That's why beginners don't need to trade and force themselves to try trading. They can learn to use a demo account first to get used to all the indicator tools until they understand how. It can also provide a trading experience useful in real trading later.

And always learning to trade is necessary for people who want to trade because that can help them make a profit. Or if he doesn't have time to study, he can try just to invest. It would be better for him to avoid losses.

If we are talking about beginners, then let it be only spot trading, and if after some time, the results are still satisfactory, then it might be worth trying your hand at futures trading. But even though I do not consider myself a beginner in trading, I still use only spot trading for myself. I would like to clarify that trading for me is not my main activity and it is mainly medium or long-term trading.

There are two different ways to trade cryptocurrencies: spot and future. It's crucial for traders to fully comprehend the entire trading system's operation and to seize every opportunity to use a trading strategy they come across. While future trading is regarded as the crude oil for making money in the market, it is complex and difficult to understand for newcomers who skip the proper pathway of studying the market. Spot trading is easy to learn and understand for beginners who are quick to pick up knowledge. In order to avoid further damage in the future or during a trade, a beginner cannot skip over the fundamentals and technicals of cryptocurrencies. Before initiating a deal, a novice should be aware of several important factors..

You will not find anyone in the market as new traders. Because those who are real traders first of all gain a lot of experience and then come to trade. Would you now say that all traders are experienced? I would say not at all. Because here also some new traders come and go constantly. They rush into trading and without understanding anything about the market they trade upside down and lose all their money and they also get lost from trading. And for them both futures/spot trades are risky.

If spot trading is confusing for newbies, how much more so in Future trading, which is the opposite of Spot trading.

       Because you can't be ignorant of trading here in cryptocurrency, you need to know how to read a chart, besides that, you must also know how to use tools so that you can get profit here in this kind of income in the crypto space.

spot trading always more friendly if compared with future trading, too much risk leveraging your assets you could always gain massive profit but at the end you could always lose it in a blink of eyes once market doing something strange, at least with spot you'd still hold your coin and wait maybe next week seeing whether the market changing the tides, but you can't with futures unless you stop loss, I think if your skill in analysis isn't sufficient, trying futures trading are like gambling and you should be ready to lose all your money, overall the traditional conventional spot trading still best one from my 2 cents, but of course it might took long time for gaining profit than future.

Get big returns that make beginners interested in trying it even though they don't have enough analytical skills and expertise. Even if they use Spot trading, they can get an advantage compared to Future trading because once the market reverses and they forget to close the trade, they will lose money, which can lead to losing money on the trade.

Maybe they can use the stop loss feature but that also doesn't guarantee they can close the trade on time because sometimes market movements can be wilder than we expect. So before we decide to do future trading, it's better for us to keep learning to trade until we get used to analyzing the market, then we try future trading.

Future trading give promising with 10x until 125x return profitable with leverage and many people was forget about how bigger risk waiting for because little fund margin have near close for getting liquid. I am excited with first time know how future trading working and try trade with $10 without fewest minutes earn profit more than 30$.

I don't know why first time give more promising with much profit, but after deposit huge fund I loss more in Future trading, since last two years stopped with all future trading activities and based on my experience not recommended for beginner or expert try with future trading, however with Binance market ever got liquid although I set with stop loss and not working well.

If they do mistake in futures there's no going back since if their money got liquidated they don't have a chance to get it back again by using the same money they put on exchange. Much better if they stick on spot trading for a while and learn from the movement of the market, after they got confident on their skills maybe they could start to try and risk to enter on futures trading.

I will always advise newbies to take away from the future market because the risk is broad and can make one to make severe loses. Future market is a volatile market and if we don't learn the market very well and how it moves, we might end up losing big because of the market situation. For the new new traders, they would have to study the market and work with a pro trader so that learning will be very faster than choosing to do it on there own. When I started trading the market I new those things I had to stick to and learn in other to get more from the market.

I agree that stop loss is a crucial feature that an exchange must have and as a trader its really advised to use stop loss to prevent capital loss instantly. Also reasonable leverage is needed to prevent our greed from losing more capital instantly. We need to use our money that we can afford to lose in future trading otherwise we will get panic when its suddenly dump.

Of course, it is very important to use technical analysis or fundamental analysis to predict prices, but it is equally important to comply with risk management. After all, if you open orders for your entire balance and do not use stop loss, then your margin trading will end very quickly.

Trading futures means that we are using leverage to have larger positions than when buying the underlying assets directly. When buying futures we need to put money in a margin account, that settles all price movements. So we participate on price fluctuations without needing to put down the full balance. This creates another layer of risk, which is why no beginner should engage in futures trading. With futures we can make higher returns if our strategy is profitable, but we will make larger losses when our strategy is falling. Running a demo account is a great idea to check how profitable our strategy is. Only looking at backward prices is not going to lead to a great strategy, we need to test with real time data. The best way is to create a good strategy in the spot market first. Once we are profitable and have some experience we can start trying out futures trading.

lucky we are in this forum, so much experience from other members, so beginners don't fall into mistakes. in trading it has to be done gradually, don't let us want instant success, I think beginners would be better off also doing spot trading first and from there we will slowly understand about the world of trading, so afterwards we can develop it ourselves according to our wishes us, and of course requires a process

Step by step. Take things smoothly and don't rush things.

Newbies are not advised to go for Future Trading right away since advanced trading knowledge is needed here.

While doing Spot Trading first, these newbies will slowly learn some trading-related knowledge while progressing. Soon, they will realize that they are now ready to face the experience of doing Future Trading and will consider trying it bit by bit until ready to risk decent funds.

Future trading is like for advance users and are not for newbies. It's just the same in video games if you skip the tutorial then you will probably gonna lose on your first try. Future trading need an experience and vast knowledge about the market and what coins they are trading so newbies doesn't have any place to touch this feature yet.

They should focus more on reading and understanding how the market works plus they'll need to apply it in order to get the idea how it actually works.

I really think that beginners should stay away from any form of trading, since for them even spot trading is too dangerous as they have no idea about how to control the risk they are experiencing, beginners instead should concentrate on just buying and holding their coins, and while the profits are more limited with this approach it will also reduce the chances of making any kind of mistake, later on once they get enough experience they could begin to trade the markets if they want.

Even to those old traders or who could be called a veteran would really be having that huge risks on losing or blowing up their account balance specially on using up high leverage which is something not really

that recommendable.Somehow, there are people who do make out some huge profits on this but of course we dont know on how much they had lost when it comes to their trading positions.It cant really be just known on how well you would be able to handle up yourself into a unpredictable and volatile market plus you do make use of high leverage then you are indeed multiplying the risks.

Well, we do know that the higher or more the risks it would be the more profits we could get which is true but of course you should really be aware on how risky and dangerous it would be.

Yep. Even for experienced traders, future trading is always very high risk. Having sufficient knowledge and experience can't guarantee to trade safety in future trading. I personally assume, it is more likely as speculating trading. If you have no good luck in trading, it is better to stay away from future trading. Well, traders can use technical analysis or fundamental analysis to predict the price, but this factor can guarantee success in future trading. Sometimes those analyses can't work well if there is bad news spreading suddenly.

Convenience in trading also depends on how you learn this type of trading. If you are more comfortable with spot trading that would be even better, because most beginners who try futures trading will switch to spot trading because apart from being easy, there are also not too many risks. different if trading in futures trading, it will be higher risk and can lose everything. But now the problem is not choosing the type of trading, but basic knowledge about trading, because many beginners only trade with luck.

With regard to Future Trading, it may be profitable if the investor expectations are correct, but of course, it has risks, and the risks may be greater for beginners. Future Trading is a double-edged sword, so the leverage can give them a good profit in a short period, which in turn increases the size of the loss, and the trader can sell a currency that he does not possess, and a financial lever can be used up to 125 times the value of the amount that the trader has, If the beginners have no experience in making predictions about the movements of prices in the future, and if they do not have experience in dealing with the tools of technical and fundamental analysis to be able to make a correct decision and good expectations, and if they do not have an effective strategy to manage risk and if they circulate with emotions instead of logic, they will lose their money is in a jiffy, so I advise everyone who does not have experience and skill from beginners to stay away from this type of trading because it is never easy and fill in risks.

You have seen from your own experience that futures trading is very risky not only for beginners, but also for an experienced trader. But the risk of losing their money is undoubtedly higher for a beginner, since he will lack knowledge and experience when making a decision.

The problem with futures trading is that you bet on several variables, and therefore it is not for the simple beginner who is trying to understand the nature of the market, and therefore realizing that the market is linked to several changes that may cause you to lose your money is what makes you trade like this, which is a real loss for beginners.

The beginner who does not listen to such advice will force the loss to listen to it because we, as humans, do not like to lose, especially to lose our money.

I know that many people have the ability to make profits from future trading, but for me, it's like gambling rather than trading. The Crypto market is extremely unpredictable because they are also partially manipulated, so the analysis to make predictions is extremely difficult. I really can't make any predictions in future trading. Not only beginners, people with heart conditions who cannot tolerate shocks should also stay away from futures trading.

It's not that they shouldn't, it's more like proceed with caution. You'll never know what's waiting for you in trading unless you try it yourself. Let the result help you to realize something, maybe it's something you need to improve to continue futures trading or something that you need to realize for you to stop it. Future trading is a risky kind of trading especially if you're not taking it seriously, like just relying on "free" signals.

I used leverage once as far as I can remember and lost it, I prefer small profits with less risk than big profits with higher risks so I use spot trading only.

Futures trading carries high risks, so it is best for beginners to avoid it completely, but in general, whether in spot or future trading, it is best to risk only what you can afford to lose.

Some Newbies and beginner in trading who were able to grasp some TA and fundamental Analysis of trading just rushed into future trading with high leverage with a mindset of earning massive and huge profits not minding the consequences of a trade going wrong which will ultimately result to a liquidation, I had personally tried future trading with Binance the outcome was absolutely bad I got liquidated within a jiffy, it was a bad experience infact healthwise, thereafter I switched over to cross margin were I traded with a considerable leverage to earn moderate profit.

No problem if the trade will be made from a demo but jumping off quickly with futures and using an actual fund, we all know where it's heading if it's a beginner that's going to do it. I see many of my friends lately have made well from the sudden up and correction of the market. These are no experts but they've been doing it for quite a while. They don't want to be addressed as experts because they still make a lot of losses but they're not just publicizing it. And from that matter, with these experienced futures traders, they're still making a mistake and how much more if a newbie that has no idea with the entire market of futures will do it on an instant, they'll get liquidated a lot and only these exchanges will benefit from them instead of them that use these exchanges for their benefits.

Future trading is a problem for newbies but even experienced people have to face losses here sometimes. I regularly stay on futures trading platforms. Even though I am here all the time I have to be in loss many times just because of greed. In the first case I have profit here but wait for more profit and later I have to take big loss. I am currently in loss on futures trading platform I gave a real picture of it.

Even if you put in little amount, you might still be liquidated, if you trade with little amount, incase if you lose it won't really affect you, but if you trade with all your money and you lose, you might go crazy at that moment. One of the way you can reduce losing money in future trading is using low leverage, the higher your leverage, the higher your profits and the higher your chances of losing money, and the lower your leverage, the lover your profit and the lower your chances of losing money.

Also we should learn to use stop loss, actually whenever am trading I don't use it, but I do recommend people to use it to be at a saver side, incase if a trade is going against you, stop loss will help you cut down your loss in the trade. It's better to lose 10% in a trade than losing 80% in a trade, so stop loss is also useful.

Many discussion threads about this talk about that Future trading is too risky for beginners and so it was recommended to take the spot trading option first.
Well, the main thing is that Future trading is a higher level of trading that absolutely required a high level of trading knowledge and skill which a newbie doesn't have the capability to do it. In fact, even spot trading is quite easy because we can lose our money if we don't know how to trade. So instead of jumping on Future trading, we better have to gain some experience in spot trading just to prepare ourselves. We can go there once we are fully ready.

The reason why is simple. Because they are inexperienced and they will blow their account much quicker than trading the normal spot way. Its not only in crypto where this is happening.

Many stock traders made good money basically buying and selling stocks. Then they started to trade options and they completely blew up their accounts. Leverage is very bad for many traders. Hence why we got many countries that are trying to make crypto trading only spot and not allowing any margin or futures what so ever.

He will end up losing all of his money, that is if he put it all but what if he only started with tiny amounts? Losing this won't be hard to accept plus he can learn and continue to improve his trades up to the point that he will master it and that would be the time for him to increase the amount that he is using.

I don't think all beginners are only in for the money but some of them are only curious on how it works and how it's done. They think it's cool if they can learn it due to its difficulty. In your case, futures trading might be for you because you managed to earn a decent income before. Your only mistake is you got greedy and that is why you lose a huge amount.

Everyone talked about how risky it is but nobody said why as far as I can see. The whole "if you are wrong even just a bit then you will lose it all" is not the real response, of course that is what happens, but why you could be just a little wrong is the key here.

Newbies do not know how likely it is that they would be wrong and lose their money, they know that it is risky, and they know that they have to be right or they will lose it all, but they do not know what the chances of them being wrong is. The chance of you being wrong if you are a newbie and make a wrong bet is over 90%, that is not just made up number, that is the real results of all accounts under 6 months old at bitmex back when they started, so if you are new, don't.

I've tried doing futures twice because of curiosity. I was just curious why others say that it isn't for everyone. I also lost twice and realized that it really needs a lot of time to do it the right way. It will be better to focus on spot trading first especially when we are just beginning and have it as a training ground before stepping into future trading. It needs time to adopt strategies on how to do futures because doing it without enough knowledge has a big risk of losing.

Damn Bro! Your story and my story are similar  I also used to do future trading and buy high leveraged tokens. But at a certain time I feels that I need to be more experienced to do future trading to get success. That's why I am still learning and trying to advise newcomers so that they don't lose their hard earned money by doing faults.

There is a reason that demo account are available for traders. This is regarding as practice account where traders can learn and practice more on the things they have been reading about trade and improve on the skills acquired. A trader that has gone through this is already having an idea on what to do with the real market. Apart from emotions of trading with real money and the fear of losing it, a beginner is facing what he or she has been practicing already. However, trading the real market is involving your emotion, you need a lower leverage in every trade not only in futures.

Spot, Futures, Margin, as well as other types of crypto trading, all crypto trading has risks, even beginners, Legendaries or experts are no exception and investors.
for that every community who wants to get involved in both crypto trading must study well from all aspects, the market, analysis, charts, volume and so on.

Only one that is low risk has ever been done by beginners with high levels of success in the crypto market, although there is also risk, loss, but the percentage has a high value there, what I mean is 'crypto investment' for beginners, for me instead of doing Demon trading for beginners, it's good if they want to do in terms of investment, with real money, future opportunities are most likely and good, it's all with a reason, crypto in the future is better and more promising. That is if they understand and believe in Bitcoin/crypto in the future.

As a beginner, you should just start with spot trading, if you want to jump into future trading, then you might endup losing all your money, beginnings are just after the high profits that's in future trading and most of them are been brainwashed, they don't think about the risk, if you join cryptocurrency because you are looking for fast money, then you might endup losing all your money.

When I started trading, i started trading on spot, then later I discovered future, I tried it and I noticed I was making enough money, I sold all the coins I bought on spot trading and I moved all my money to future trading, I started trading on futures and I was using high laverage, the funniest part is that I lost all the money which I started trading with, then I discovered that future trading wasn't for me and I quited.

Sure, I recommend beginners to demo or practice directly through spot trading. Futures trading will make you suffer more, from spot trading. Futures trading is a further development of spot trading. So you should be easier if you have mastered spot trading to futures trading. Even though in the end it was the comfort I was looking for and maybe the OP could also try and know the risks so as to determine the choice he considered most profitable. Although all can be trained sometimes discomfort will make him choose spot trading (like me).

Demo fund not Demon fund

Beginners shouldn't try futures trading because they are inexperienced and can analyze the market because if the market reverses direction suddenly, they will be confused about handling it.

But if they have enough skills, they can try future trading to see how good their analysis skills and techniques are. Maybe demo trading is good for them to use as a way of learning, but they still have to study well to improve their trading skills.

Actually You Put Here A Best Question Because We Know Trading Not For Everyone And Who Involved With Crypto Currency They Try To Learn Spot Trading Any Platform At The Begin Time And Always Beware Future Trading Because Beginner Not Risk Taker.

That's not how I managed to not lose too much money when I was a beginner. I was simply taking the safest route, spot trading it is. But, there must be discipline here and lots of sleepless nights will happen. Coffee too.
I stick with only one coin to trade so I can focus, and learn the movements, candles, and TA. Months of just watching it grow and reaping the rewards when it was time.
I think it's not because of being pro or what. Keeping discipline will be the key to profits and a part of it is being a newbie every day. Learning more and not letting it inside your head that you are a pro.

If a trader already has technical analysis skills, I can say he is no longer a beginner because being able to have that knowledge certainly takes time, as well as trading activities of any kind and also using any account, be it a real account or a demo account. Futures trading is perfect for traders who like risk or risk takers.
But I agree the market is always going to be unpredictable they can even change really fast like the last few hours and I think that's quite surprising because before it looked so hard to break $25,000 but it worked but it came back down so it's very difficult to predict.

If that beginner is able to do technical analysis and other analysis then they can try to go future trading, lower the leverage and try with a small amount don't be impatience by using all funds you have, spot trading is safer but the risk is always worth to try. Even many experts said that Bitcoin will go lower when Bitcoin touch $20k a few days ago but now it rebound to 24k-25k$, so even with the experience we won't know what will happen to crypto.

Using demo trading is recommended for beginners so they can learn how to trade Futures and what strategies to do. Futures trading is not as easy as a beginner might think, just guess and then earn big profits. Futures trading is very high risk compared to spot trading. All will be lost when predictions are wrong and liquidated. Using leverage wisely will be crucial, don't use too high leverage if you're not sure what to trade. Spot trading seems to be safer for beginners to start learning the early stages of trading and developing trading strategies. Don't force yourself to trade futures.

futures trading are certainly more difficult than the conventional spot trading, it indeed could give massive profit at short time but also requires massive commitment and the fact that it may risk all your money is enough reason any newbie should get away from future trading, i'd say spot trading still best way to go you could literally just hold if the value turns out not what you've expected but with future trading forget that.
i'd say future trading is only for those committed and knows well about technical analysis, if you seem to be lacking just try out the demos, but usually even the demos doesn't really illustrate the real scenario of future trading, sticking with conventional spot trading with lower leverage makes more sense at that point for most of newbies.

I highly recommend this when it comes to training up yourself when it comes to charting and other terms which it would really be that important to familiarize everything because putting up yourself on live action will really just be a suicide.Its good to make yourself get a good hold on your position and make yourself that profitable but despite of those advantage of Demo trading is that you do miss out some part
which is that in talks about emotional aspect.

You would be able to determine the difference when you do make trades on demo trading compared on live trading using up your real money.Emotions would kick in because
you would really be that afraid on losing and this is where positioning yourself would be that challenging.

Correction: Demo not Demo.
I agree with this, those people who want to practice without using real money, they can use some demo platforms of exchanges or what common term is testnet.
There are some popular exchanges who got testnet platforms where you can trade using not real money.
For example, are
Bybit: https://testnet.bybit.com/en-US/
Bitmex: https://testnet.bitmex.com/

I think futures trading platform is very risky platform. Those who trade here are all experienced. You can never survive here without completing the experience and you will lose it in no time. This future trading platform is very risky especially for newbies. I have seen many people who have made a lot of money from here and I have seen those same people who once destroyed it. So I would like to say that you must be fully experienced before coming to futures trading platform.

What matters is money management, strategy, patience, emotional control and risk control. If a beginner can manage all this they can venture into future trading and still make good profit from it. Future trading and spot trading can be traded by anyone the difference in result  is attributed to  how much knowledge they have gathered and how the can tackle the market pressure knowing when to buy, sell , exit and avoid the market.

There are two types of beginners here, we have beginners on this forum and beginners to trading in general.
Some beginners in this forum are experts in crypto trading and they know all it takes to make profit and maintain their losses, those types of beginners might be new to this forum but with lot of experience in trading, those beginners are free to go for future trading.

This right here is why I am always scared for beginners, they focus on making lots of profit and this makes them skip the essential parts. One has to be on spot trading for a particular time frame and must have studied it well before diving into future trading. But few weeks into trading you see newbies jumping into it. Crypto trading isn’t forex trading.

This is not only beginners problem, expert traders also get liquidated.
One can lose money in both futures and spot trading. Only tools needs is discipline to an higher extent and not allowing greed take over ones mind.

I totally agree with you. Beginners are not much experienced with their funds management. In future trading we should have a entry point and exit point with proper analysis but but in many times beginners falls into the trap and gets liquidated. That is the worst part of Future Trading to be liquidated.

I also think that beginners are not right for futures trading because this uses high leverage. It's clear how the risks will be faced, especially since beginners don't have strong fundamentals in doing this trading, so it's better to hone those skills in spot trading after all. are ready then try with futures trading it doesn't matter the important thing is mentally and others are ready.

I myself don't play futures trading very often, because I avoid being overly exaggerated from this trade to be honest for now it's better at a calmer spot and not to be overly tense like futures trading.

What I suggest is that beginners have to learn a lot, don't be too aggressive if your skills aren't ready.

This has been written about here so many times, so much so that it seems we have become repetitive, posting the same caveats over and over again. I would like to make a correction to your text, many newbies think that any trade is profitable, not only derivative. Any trading always implies a huge risk that no beginner can handle. It is better not to trade on the exchange at all, but to accumulate coins, quietly going about your favorite business. Trading takes away your peace of mind, your time and your money.

For anyone to have gotten a good cognizance with spot trading and also having a trading pattern then am convince such a trader is good to go with future trading, you have to dare new waters as a trader if you want to make good profits. If you can be a spot trader then you shouldn't regard yourself as a newbie anymore cause a newbie is only but a novice to trading in all ways.

I personally think futures trading is only for the professionals. Even professional traders, at times, find it difficult to manage futures trading.
Most newbies lose money in futures trading. Beginners should master spot trading first before they dive into futures.
The thought of getting higher returns by using higher leverage is the main reason why many lose money eventually.

As a beginner, accept the fact that you know nothing about trading and the only way to turn the tide around is by acquiring as much knowledge as possible, spend a lot of time learning about trading before you even have the mind to give a try, believe that you know nothing yet and keep learning.

People make mistakes after learning trading for a short period of time, they believe that they can handle anything, and when the trade go against them they easily give up on trading. 

It is impossible for you to know everything about trading, there are so many tools and strategies available, all you need is a single trading strategy, and as time goes on, make sure you get better at it.   

I think good ideas for beginner not go for future trading and have experienced how to earn profit with spot trading before trying with huge and faster profit due future trading. Change beginner mindset when first time know with cryptocurrency and begin on future trading, after getting liquid notification they will frustrated and not trying how to invest back in cryptocurrency anymore.

Many beginner want to earn profit as soon possible and future trading will give faster profit than spot trading, but bigger risk waiting with future trading and difference with spot trading although price going drop and our coins keep exist in spot trading and loss when wrong predicting in future trading then our capital loss.

Actually I just shared to help beginners because I also faced this types of problem and you are right leveraged altcoins are also risky. And I didn't mentioned clearly but I said about Bitcoin leveraged token. I invested in SXPBULL token and lost my entire funds. So I want to clear that never go for altcoin based leveraged tokens.

Have you checked leader board before on any exchange that are showing it to derivative traders? If you check it, you will notice that you can be able to see the percentage of ROI of each traders on the leader board. If you calculate it with the the difference of the entry price and mark price of the asset they are trading, you will notice that most leader board traders use 1x leverage. They prefer to use high amount of money but with no leverage or not even using all their money on their trading account, which can be know if they use crosss margin mode, you can not know that with isolated margin mode.

But as a beginner, use less than the amount of money you can afford to trade with.

As a good trader, use the amount of money you can afford to lose to trade.

If you should increase you trading fund, that means you have more success rate in trading position opened. If not, still always use the amount of money you can afford to lose to trade.

For bitcoin, 5x is getting high for me, but I can use it in if the market has gone very low, I prefer 3x for bitcoin. I prefer 2x for altcoins if I know the market will favour me when the market have gone very low, but I like 1x overall.

Good traders which are professional enough do not want to be fighting with emotion, that is why the prefer to open 1x or leverage, if they are losing, they still believe the market will correct itself either in short or long term. That is why you will see them losing but not closing position, but it is not a surprise anymore that the position opens that you thought they are losing would later favour them and they will gain massively.

But for those that just leverage, the greed has been what is causing them problem and liquidation which is the regret that they have.

What traders need most to first know are risk management and strategies, then followed by how to make analyses, starting from knowing about charts and indicators.

If you are talking about bitcoin, your post is good and I would have given you one merit, but altcoins are dangerous with 5x, it can result to liquidation.

Maybe as newbie you won't lose your money with spot trading as fast as you would with futures, but you will most likely end up losing money anyway. Sure, you may get lucky once or twice at the beginning thinking that is so easy to simply "buy low and sell high" while in reality you will end up doing the opposite.

I did the same mistake back in 2017 as I thought that i am pro trader just because I was profiting during bull market. Then shit hit the fan and bear came and I quickly realize that I have no idea what I'm doing so best course of action was to switch to hodl mode. Best decision ever.

tl;dr newbies should avoid trading allogether.

They are not beginners any more in this case and this is the right path to take. Before fully going into trading or investment one has to acquire as much knowledge as they can, for investing you can start with the basics first, but trading requires lots more knowledge before you attempt.

Beginners Thought : Almost every Beginners think Future Trading is much profitable than Spot trading. I am also agree with you but Future Trading isn't for all. In future trading we usually used to use high leverage which cause high risk of being liquidated. We usually used to see people are making huge profits from Future Trading. But they are not like us.They are much Experienced and have well management of their portfolio. Youtubers and experienced traders usually trade with high leverage and they also do deep technical Analysis to open any position.

So What Should I Do As A Beginner? : I think Beginners every traders need to have experience of trading. And also must have knowledge about technical analysis. You guys can use TradingView to analysis by own and also can see others analysis about the market or about any specific token or trading pair. I will advise you to do Spot trading because there you have a little risk to lose your funds but in future trading you can be liquidated in a short time and can be frustrated. When You see market is in bull season you may buy some 3× or 5× Leveraged Tokens that will give you high returns. Though almost every trade you open there must have a perfect technical analysis and trading strategies. You can still now use future trading but my suggestion will be never use high leverage at all unless you are fully confident about the market.

Edit: Trading beginners can practice future trading with Demo funds. There are some exchange available where you can trade with demo assets. That will help you to build a good experience in future trading.

Also Experts are welcome to advise new users about Best trading Strategies.