Futures trading is of course very risky, it requires skill and astuteness to always monitor market price movements. This is of course quite difficult for beginners to do, although there are always profits and losses in trading, but the risk of losing is greater than getting the expected profit.
I'm not sure if there is any type of trading out there that doesn't require skills. All of them are risky but we have some of them that are more risky and future trading is just one them where you are betting/contract bidding between a buyer and a seller and whoever win is what the contract will favour as there is going to be a transfer balance from one trader to another literally while the exchange rake in fees from what the two traders are doing.
Though, I can't even deny it, if you are very expert in spot trading and understand how to manage trades, you will make more money doing futures if you use the leverage like a normal person that want to make money and not someone who is trying to get rich overnight by using 100+ leverage. If if was that easy, even the exchanges will be there to make money by using high leverage.