Leverage: it's important to know the account size of your port folio. A good leverage can result in big profits. The risks of attaining higher heights in trading becomes very simple when you know the leverage to implement. Do you know the higher the leverage, the bigger profits also vice versa to Losses.
In trading it is more risky when traders opens margins with the plans of gaining big profits while leverage trading makes the market more risky because your margin can easily be liquidated and your will be potential to loose all of your money.
Maybe it feels good because you can use a small amount of your capital to open a larger market to make big profits.
However, this seems to be one or the most difficult trading strategy and not easy as you think OP because you are leveraging for price to increase in the short term when short term volatility is more difficult to be predicted.