A while back, I took a hard look at how much I was spending on trading fees. Futures, spot, perpetuals, it didn’t matter. The total hit me like a punch to the gut. For every trade I carefully planned, a chunk of my profit was quietly eaten away. And the more I traded, the worse it got.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had my wins. There’s nothing like the thrill of catching a perfect market move. But when I looked closer, I realized the fees were taking a bigger piece of the pie than I’d like to admit. It got me wondering, why don’t more platforms offer something meaningful to offset these costs?
An insightful reader can't get you wrong, you've already stated the view of winning and losing in the first paragraph and I am happy to tell you that you are getting closer to success if you can rather be patient and work more on your discipline and money/risk management. However, the excuse for the fees is baseless, I trade daily, even with traditional brokers despite their insane spreads, trading commissions and swaps that look like extortion. But exchanges are contrarily offering ridiculously low fees, except you use a high leverage.