@jaberwock, I'm not really sure how to respond to you on this because I feel you were supposed to have quoted the OP, not me. However, I will respond to the part I found necessary below 👇
Proper trading is not leverage trading, proper trading is spot trading. Leverage is just what people with insane confidence do, but that is not what you should do.
Leverage isn't what people with insane confidence do. It's normal risk in business. I don't know what your experience or background in trading is. I don't know why you class spot trading as proper/real trading and then Futures as otherwise. Futures trading is what happens in FX trading. Remember that FX trading existed long before crypto trading even began; decades, actually. We've FX trading. There's also Index trading and all that. Spot trading is conservative and less of a risk. Perhaps that was what you meant? Well, anyone who's scared of losing shouldn't venture into Futures or any other form of trading that's not spot trading.