Biggest mistake Futures traders make leads to 95% of retail traders at a loss.
This mistake is forcing an opportunity. You see all this talk about how Futures is bad, you lose everything... which is actually true for most people but not for everyone.
Why they lose money? No.1 reason is they try to dig up an opportunity, not catch one. You are retail, not the market makers or whales. You follow what they do, and try to ride along in the sidelines.
Digging up an opportunity when it's not there at all is digging up your own grave. Always trade when it's the right time.
Spend most of your time on researching and figuring out your entry. Opening the position is 99% of the work. The other 1% is waiting knowing that you will eventually make profit after all the brain power you used.
If you are the guy who looks at their position every minute, anxious about your negative PNL and further loss, it's because even you have no clue how this position will even be profitable. If you do enough thinking, you should be confident to know that it will eventually be profitable.
This is probably something very obvious yet no one does. It's also the reason why I can profit. Irrational, emotional and uneducated traders donate money to me. Don't be the guy donating, be on the receiving end.