What's the effect of add margin?

[SebastianJu]

Hi,

I use okcoin to trade with leverage and lately I tried the add margin feature. It seems it puts more money into the deal and lowers the risk of being called because the threshold moves further away. And the profit or loss is nearing more against zero when I did that.

So what happens exactly? When I buy a contract at 20x leverage and then add margin for the same amount I paid for the contract then would I effectively have the same like I would have had when I would have had done a 10x leverage?

Thanks!