I wouldn't advise you to use leverage if you are trading beginner, it's dangerous and you could lose all you money, especially when you are using higher leverage(less guaranty bond),People are addicted to leverage because you can throw out a minnow to catch a whale with the leverage,so I call it "gambling" instead of leverage.
You can lose through leverage and you can lose without leverage.
the leverage itself has nothing to do with it
You CAN lose all your money. but this would happen only if you risk all your money.
BUT, if you limit possible loss (and you can limit), I'm sure you would agree that one can prevent such a thing from happening
This, of course is not a recommendation to use leverage, but a distinction that one should know what he/she is doing, before doing it.
this apply for many areas of life.
Question - Did you ever use leverage , or are you against the idea of leverage on principle ?