Why are contract traders getting liquidated every day, yet so many people are still playing?

Let’s be blunt: most people don’t even really understand what’s going on.
To ordinary retail investors, contracts are high-risk gambling; but to professional players, contracts are fundamentally risk-hedging tools. Here, profits are never made by luck—they’re made by taking advantage of other people’s liquidation losses. The market is a zero-sum game: if someone goes to zero, someone else gets rich.
Most experienced traders spend 70% of their time staying out of the market and waiting. Unless there’s a clear, certain setup, they won’t act lightly. Once they open a position, their goal is precise stripping—capitalizing accurately. In contrast, ordinary retail investors trade back and forth constantly, place emotional trades, and have no rules, until they end up as the “chips” being stripped.
If you want to profit from contracts long-term, the core comes down to just two words: go against human nature.
When everyone else is panicking, stay calm; when the market is greedy, stay cautious. Rigorously control your loss limit—one trade’s loss must never exceed 5% of total capital. During the profit phase, hold decisively. Ensure your gains are at least twice the amount of the stop-loss, and let the risk-reward ratio always come before the number of trades.
Many people stubbornly insist that contracts are nothing but gambling. That sentence is only half true: you get liquidated because you treat it like a gamble.