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The Five Mistakes Almost Everyone Makes in Week One — Bitget
None of these are about being wrong on direction. All of them are avoidable with a setting or a habit.
1. Sizing from leverage instead of from risk
"I'll use 20x" is not a plan; it is a number with no relationship to where the idea is wrong. Size from the loss you accept and the invalidation level, and let leverage be whatever that implies. This one error causes more account losses than every other item combined.
2. Treating the liquidation price as the stop
If the stop is wider than the liquidation distance, there is no stop — there is a liquidation with extra steps, at a worse price and with a fee attached. Check the distance before entry, every time.
3. Ignoring funding on a multi-day hold
A directionally correct swing trade held through a week of elevated funding can finish flat or negative. Funding is a cost of carry and it accrues whether or not the position is working.
4. Trading entirely as taker
Impatience is a fee schedule. Crossing the spread on every entry and exit roughly triples the round-trip cost versus posting limits. Over a month of active trading this is not a rounding error — at three trades a day on 10x, taker-only fees can consume a majority of your starting margin before any market move.
5. Never claiming the fee tier already earned
Fee schedules step down with 30-day volume, and the step is not always automatic or obvious. A meaningful number of active traders are paying entry-tier rates on volume that qualifies for two tiers better, simply because they never checked. This is free money left on the table, monthly.
What the screen actually shows (checked 2026-08-28):
- The panel is reached from the VIP 0 fee rate link under the order buttons. - It shows the current futures rate beside the rate at the next tier. - At VIP 0 the futures rate is maker 0.020% and taker 0.030%. - The next tier shows maker 0.019% and taker 0.03%, so the step is small. - The panel states the deposit required for an instant tier upgrade.
*Interfaces change. This was account owner's screen capture of the VIP 0 fee panel; if what you see differs, trust the exchange.*
The meta-mistake
Trying to fix all five by trading more carefully. Four of the five are settings and habits you configure once. Do that, and the remaining problem is the genuinely hard one — being right about direction — instead of five easy problems stacked on top of it.