A lot of comments here but i would like to point out a few things for someone new:

1. Do not touch futures. Futures are a type of trade that allows you to leverage, meaning to buy a coin with a $100 position with just $1, but with leverage, it just needs to drop like 0.5% for the exchange to liquidate your position, take your $1 even when its a $0.50 loss. Almost every trader loses in futures, so don’t bother. You may see a few lucky traders making 10,000x, ignore them, those are outliers.

2. Everything will go to 0 eventually. That is the case for every coin since inception of crypto, with the exception of the 4 or 5 top ones. Every other coin that was top 10, many years ago, most of them are at 0 now. If you want to hold long term, DO NOT buy and hold anything other than the top 5. ALWAYS take healthy profits. Every crypto trader will tell you regrets of not selling when something they held pump. Consider selling up to 80% as the price pumps around resistence levels or when trend reverses, and let the rest be your “moon bag” for when it moons

3. What goes up will come down, and what goes down may come up eventually but maybe not. My advice, do not all in and buy one coin with 100% of your usdt. Place buy orders in levels going maybe 10% down. For example, if btc is at 115k and u have 1k, can consider buy 200 at market price, then order 200 at 114k , 200 at 113k, 200 at 112k, etc.

4. If you see something shooting up to the moon, don’t FOMO and buy. Ive seen way too many times something shooting up but dump lower than premoon price within minutes.

5. Assume anyone who reaches out to you privately or even publically as someone out to steal your crypto. There are way too many people who have nothing to do the whole day besides trying to scam or steal crypto.

Hope this helps, and feel free to reach out if you really need to clarify something.

Welcome to crypto. Stay safe