Has anyone successfully used really high leverage or is that just gambling?

[jakelyson]

It is a double edge sword. You can profit very quickly when you timed the right market but if you made the wrong prediction then it can also easily drain your funds away. Just use it if you are certain the market is going a definite direction which is very hard to predict in crypto market.

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[jackg]

I hadn't accounted for the fees recently so I've mede profit and then lost it faster due to the fees bitmex charges.

[wxa7115]

By really high leverage I mean anything that's over 100x. Is it possible to be successful doing that. I have short term profits with 10x leverage but I'm wondering about experimenting with higher. Also I'm guessing it's safer to make a 100x bet for and against yourself just as a bit of insurance so you don't lose too much (obviously using the api as I'm not that fast).

Honestly I do not see the point of leveraging your trades in crypto, I understand some people do this in traditional markets since the volatility there is many times lower than what we see in this market, but when you see some of the movements alts can do in a matter of minutes or hours leveraging seems like a way to hurt yourself more than anything, it is true that if you leverage your trade in the moment a coin goes up abruptly you could obtain profits that are amazing.

But as long as you have a trading system that you have tested and you know it gives consistent profits then you do not need leverage, and in fact leverage could break your system since one of the most important aspects of trading is money management.

[maxreish]

For some, yes. Using that 100x leverage with scalping can be successful and they gained profits for a small percentage but as for my personal experienced, I just liquidated because the higher the leverage the sooner the liquidation rate. And the risk is really high, too.
After that experience, I do not want to try it again and risk my whole fund to lose.

[sana54210]

I haven't tried doing a 100X leverage because I feel like I'm just gambling it. With the current volatility of the market, I can't afford to lose so much with that leverage. The risk is quite and emotions might get me.

It is typically gambling and too full of risk; the risk involved is higher than the assurance, in this volatile market? If those who are trading less volatile coins cannot dare to leverage on 100x, since they are still operating in a market that price cannot be predicted.

In as much as we have lots of benefits that we can grab from the market, we have to still be less greedy, it is only greed that will make a man want to leverage 100x and not strategy, except the trader is trading with very high amount of morning with wide marking, and we are talking about thousands to millions of dollars here.

[Thirdspace]

I can say that high leverage means higher risk for higher return... sounds like gambling?
if you know the market direction is continuously uptrend without correction, then you can be successful
but in any trade market, market movement isn't that easy to predict even signals aren't 100% definite
so for me, high leverage 100x is like betting 10% chance winning on dice games

[emmybd]

I don't think that normal traders have got the skills to do it successfully, it is just a gambling for them, but there are a few pro-traders they have got the skills to do it. I believe timing is more important in it.

[StarofBTC]

For some, yes. Using that 100x leverage with scalping can be successful and they gained profits for a small percentage but as for my personal experienced, I just liquidated because the higher the leverage the sooner the liquidation rate. And the risk is really high, too.
After that experience, I do not want to try it again and risk my whole fund to lose.

This type of trade was exactly what destroyed my trading career in forex, and based on my personal experience, I think it is greed because that was what led me into increasing my leverage because of the winnings I was enjoying trading with a very low leverage.

I thought I could risk it, so I took my chance, since the market has been good for a while, the moment I took that step, as if some sort of people were watching my moves, that is how the market went against me, and it was just like twinkle of my eye, the dip was so high that before I could stop my loss, I had already entered negative

[Mahanton]

For some, yes. Using that 100x leverage with scalping can be successful and they gained profits for a small percentage but as for my personal experienced, I just liquidated because the higher the leverage the sooner the liquidation rate. And the risk is really high, too.
After that experience, I do not want to try it again and risk my whole fund to lose.

This type of trade was exactly what destroyed my trading career in forex, and based on my personal experience, I think it is greed because that was what led me into increasing my leverage because of the winnings I was enjoying trading with a very low leverage.

I thought I could risk it, so I took my chance, since the market has been good for a while, the moment I took that step, as if some sort of people were watching my moves, that is how the market went against me, and it was just like twinkle of my eye, the dip was so high that before I could stop my loss, I had already entered negative

And when you do enter on the negative side you wont easily able to get out on forex.High leverage would really have that big negative even on the slightest movement or price opposing
with your own position which means cutting loss or  canceling it out is high which leads to loss and recovery wont really be that easy.High leverage=High risk and only a few would able to
manage to winn or profitable.

[klaaas]

It will increase the risks as high as the leverage, If you do trades on very small gains it can maybe benefit to use such high number. Even for the experienced traders this can be lethal to use. 

[1Referee]

I prefer to use 2x leverage, which might seem like peanuts to some people, but for me that's more than enough. I appreciate every satoshi in profit that I make.

The highest leverage I ever used was 25x but I felt so uncomfortable that I closed the position after like an hour. In my opinion anything above 10x is similar to gambling in the crypto space. People seem to overlook the fact that they add leverage to an already super volatile asset class, that's crazy. On top of that, Bitmex with its spontaneous killer wicks makes things even more risky. Noobs get brutally liquidated in a blink of an eye like that.

[BitHodler]

I've tied x 100 and I was quite successful using 1-2% of my wallet for each trade unless i was keeping my emotions on a leash.

What do you mean with keeping your emotions on a leash? 100x only requires a 1% move to wipe out your initial trade. Regardless of how the charts look, a 1% move can occur at any time and in any direction.

I prefer to use mild leverage multipliers so that I can hold my position open, regardless of the volatility. I have experienced it before that after my position was opened I was in the red, but with some patience it turned green.

If you use tight stops you don't have that advantage. You are basically subjected to the mercy of the short term fluctuations, and I rather avoid that. I'm happy with lower profits as long as the risks are relatively low too.

Anything better than a loss.

[coinplus]

I think both of those things are not mutually exclusive, there are people who like gambling as well and gambling has a house edge which means that there is a guarantee you will lose in the long term if you play a lot.

Moreover, if you do really high leverage than you are going to trade with a bit of gambling as well but at least there is no house edge and if you are good at what you do and know what and where we are going than that gambling could profit you as well, there are plenty of people who profited from even dice games with house edge so profiting from really high leverage trading is not that unthinkable even though we can call it rolling dice as well. So, it is just basically a house edgeless dice roll type of situation if you know what you are doing.

[Tytanowy Janusz]

I've tied x 100 and I was quite successful using 1-2% of my wallet for each trade unless i was keeping my emotions on a leash.

What do you mean with keeping your emotions on a leash? 100x only requires a 1% move to wipe out your initial trade. Regardless of how the charts look, a 1% move can occur at any time and in any direction.

I prefer to use mild leverage multipliers so that I can hold my position open, regardless of the volatility. I have experienced it before that after my position was opened I was in the red, but with some patience it turned green.

If you use tight stops you don't have that advantage. You are basically subjected to the mercy of the short term fluctuations, and I rather avoid that. I'm happy with lower profits as long as the risks are relatively low too.

Anything better than a loss.

1 h amplitude on bitcoin is most often lower than 0.5%. So 1% move does not happen that often. When you are trading with x100 leverage you are using complete different strategy than with x10 or without leverage at all. You put like 1-2% of your wallet into single trade. That way if once per day 1% move will appear you are loosing those 1-2% of your wallet. And you go on with next trade. Its like going in with 20% of your wallet and x10 leverage with 1% stoploss. You are risking the same amount of money.

With keeping emotions on a leash I mean to hold that strategy. Do not put more than 1% of your wallet even if you are so sure that it will go as you predicted. That's why this is not for me since I'm not able to hold with putting more and more money into trade. Its too addictive.

With x100 leverage you have build in stoploss on your wallet equal to position size.

[akram143]

By really high leverage I mean anything that's over 100x. Is it possible to be successful doing that. I have short term profits with 10x leverage but I'm wondering about experimenting with higher. Also I'm guessing it's safer to make a 100x bet for and against yourself just as a bit of insurance so you don't lose too much (obviously using the api as I'm not that fast).

it depends on how you can use the possibilities sometimes it would be like Prophet giving but in sometimes we cannot make any changes it will always about luck and time so we need everything to be helpful for the success otherwise it will always like experimentation process for you.

[wxa7115]

I can say that high leverage means higher risk for higher return... sounds like gambling?
if you know the market direction is continuously uptrend without correction, then you can be successful
but in any trade market, market movement isn't that easy to predict even signals aren't 100% definite
so for me, high leverage 100x is like betting 10% chance winning on dice games

That is what it is, I have seen some people claiming they have a system with 90% accuracy but what happens when they lose? They lose a huge amount of money, however those systems can still be profitable but if you use leverage then that means that your entire account can be wiped out if the market goes against you and as long as your chances of winning are not 100%, and I have to yet see a system that wins every single time, then that means that sooner or later you are going to face bankruptcy.

And when that happens the people that used leverage are going to blame everyone trying to shift the blame when they are the only ones to blame since they were the ones to use leverage on the first place.

[bonker]

If I got success in gambling I like to invest in it so the winning amount from the gambling will not came out for lots of people so I don't know how to get success in gambling for quick.

[Bagaji]

By really high leverage I mean anything that's over 100x. Is it possible to be successful doing that. I have short term profits with 10x leverage but I'm wondering about experimenting with higher. Also I'm guessing it's safer to make a 100x bet for and against yourself just as a bit of insurance so you don't lose too much (obviously using the api as I'm not that fast).

The risk is too high if you are to use up to 100x of your funds because I have tried it before and at the end I lost all my money and I later noticed that my decision was out greedy not just because I made any serious analysis before I made the decision.

[LUCKMCFLY]

By really high leverage I mean anything that's over 100x. Is it possible to be successful doing that. I have short term profits with 10x leverage but I'm wondering about experimenting with higher. Also I'm guessing it's safer to make a 100x bet for and against yourself just as a bit of insurance so you don't lose too much (obviously using the api as I'm not that fast).

If I have used it very few times but not at x100, because x100 is so fast that they can liquidate your position, most traders use x100 leverage because it is one of the best gains when you are in the right direction, but I usually use leverage to do very short operations of 1 to 5 minutes, if I do not see that I start to get profit, I just cut the trade.

This is simple, many times the Exchanges also operate, and they know very well where the resistances and ceilings of the operations are, having that information is very easy to operate, only the correct way or direction of the market must be followed.

Where else I have used the leverage has been in BITMEX, and has not been x100, has always been x25, since x25 has more option that do not liquidate the positions quickly, and gives you more possibilities that you can maneuver within the market, because the first positions to settle are those of x100 and x50. I recommend that if you use the leverage you do trading downwards and not upwards, because the upside usually charge much more fee, and it is more likely that the prices go down quickly that go up quickly, and that you do not use leverage x100 but x25 while you are becoming more expert.