Get straight to the point—two opening position methods: First, 100U margin with 10x leverage, total position 1000U; Second, 50U margin with 20x leverage, same total position of 1000U.
Many people ask, what's the difference? Looking at profits alone, not much difference: 1% market movement on a 1000U position yields roughly 10U profit either way, since you're deploying the same capital scale.
But when the market moves against you, the gap becomes clear. With 10x leverage, a 1% reverse movement means ±10U P&L, which is 10% of your 100U margin—manageable. With 20x leverage, the same movement mean

The US stock market already lost more than $1 trillion USD.
₩279,404,000,000,000 has been wiped out of the Korean stock market today.
Spot gold lost more market value in a single day than the entire cryptocurrency market.
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