Quote from austinp:
<i>"... if you don't understand what that leverage is all about."</i>
Leverage is having a case of beer in your refrigerator, and having the self-control to drink one at dinner instead of all 24 in one hour.
Leverage is having $30k in an account with ability to trade 60 contracts on daytrade margin, but only trading one contract at a time for a long, long time.
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Futures contracts have as little or as much leverage as your self-control dictates. They are no more or less "dangerous" than stocks, cash or margin. We each decide how much money to risk on each trade, and that's the reality of leverage.