My beginner checklist: what to do and how to make money in crypto if you have at least $10
The first thing I personally faced — and almost every beginner does — is futures trading.
You join an exchange, fund your account, and start looking for a fast way to make money.
And futures are usually the first thing you see.This is a trap.
Without understanding how leverage and futures actually work, beginners enter trades with x50–x100 leverage, which almost always leads to a blown account.
No knowledge, no experience — just extreme risk.
My recommendation at the beginning:
leverage no higher than x10
risk no more than 5% per trade
If you have $10, that’s $0.5 per trade. No more.
Next — education.
Watch YouTube videos to understand the basics of how the market works: trends, liquidity, risk management.
But be honest with yourself:
Guides will give you understanding, but they will NOT teach you how to trade.
No one will teach you how to trade.
Only your own practice and reviewing your mistakes will help you build your own strategy over time.
Don’t expect fast money.
Even with a good learning pace, you will likely lose around $100 — in small deposits of $10.
That’s normal and part of the process.
After 2–3 months of trading, you may start making some money.
And only if you can trade $10 consistently, then it makes sense to increase your capital — for example to $100 — still risking 5% ($5) per trade.
Why not deposit $500 right away?
Because you don’t know how you’ll react emotionally to losses with that amount.
Different capital sizes mean different psychology and different risks.
Your main goal for the first 6 months:
protect your capital
find your own trading concept
build your personal strategy
Everything else is secondary.
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