In these months operating futures, I understood something key:

it's not about predicting the market, it's about reading what it is already saying.

At first, many of us believe that everything is the perfect indicator or the magic signal. Over time, I learned that no indicator works alone, and that the true edge appears when you understand the relationship between price, Open Interest, volume, and RSI.

- Price is what everyone sees

- Volume tells you if that movement has real strength

- RSI gives you the pulse, not to buy or sell by itself, but to detect exhaustion or continuity

- Open Interest (OI) reveals the most important thing:

whether new positions are entering the movement or if only old positions are being closed.

This is where my mindset changed.

- Price rises + OI rises + volume supports

→ It's not a "pump", it's new money entering. The movement has intention.

- Price rises + OI falls

→ It's not strength, it's shorts closing. Be careful about buying late.

- Price falls + OI rises

→ Positions are being opened against the previous movement. Continuation may come… or a well-constructed trap.

- Price falls + OI falls

→ Exit of participants. The market breathes before deciding.

I don't use RSI here as a traffic light for "overbought / oversold", but as context:

Strong RSI with increasing OI → real momentum

Divergences with flat or declining OI → early warning

And something I learned the hard way:

- Leverage does not give you an advantage, it reduces your margin for error.

Lowering leverage does not make you a lesser trader, it makes you a better survivor.

I also understood that:

Not all trades are taken

Not all candles are chased

The market owes you nothing

Trading futures is not about always winning, it's about losing little when you're wrong and letting it run when the market is right.

Today I operate more calmly, more selectively, and with one single priority:

stay alive for the next trade.

If you are starting in futures, stop looking for miracle signals and start reading the structure.

The market speaks all the time… you just have to learn to listen.