Leverage is why small accounts can trade real markets, and why small accounts can vanish in an afternoon. The tool is neutral; the sizing decision is everything.
At 1:100 leverage, $100 controls $10,000 of currency. A 1 percent market move is a 100 percent account move, in either direction.
The broker's margin call closes positions when losses approach your balance. With high leverage, that point arrives after surprisingly small market moves.
Available leverage is what the broker offers. Effective leverage is what your position size actually uses. Professionals often use a fraction of what is available.
The lesson: leverage offered is not a suggestion. Position sizing rules decide how much to actually deploy.
Copy trading applies the strategy's sizing discipline to your balance, which usually means far lower effective leverage than beginners choose alone.
That single difference explains much of the survival gap between copied accounts and solo first-timers.
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