Ideal leverage?

[Esha.J]

High leverage has the good return but with high risk, so you have to manage your trading plan according to it. Otherwise, you can lose your money.

 

[bublu]

Some new traders loose money in forex trading and then looses even more while chasing that lost money so better to let go these losses and second stick to a proper trade management plan.

 

[RISKonFX]

As others have said, but perhaps not too clearly; it's in your own benefit to obtain the highest maximum leverage possible on an account. This reduces the margin required for opening a trade and leaves more 'available margin' for disposal.

At the end of the day, as long as you understand the difference between:

1. Maximum Leverage Available on Account
2. Actual Leverage used on a Trade

You're going to be at the very least facing the right direction...

To many new traders open accounts with, say 1:100 leverage and assume that each trade is therefore using 1:100 leverage - we've all seen the posts