This is what i learned about leverage after ignoring a risk warning from ivan at bullmania
So i started using this structured trading system just this year. Things were going ok until the market crashed in feb prolly coz of tarifs. The system flagged it clearly. I heard it understood it and then completely ignored it lol. I was convinced that recovery just around the corner. It was not really!! Then watched everything move against me in real time. Telling you from experience it is not at all a fun experience!!! Eventually closed my long positions. Ngl that decision saved around 30% of my portfolio during one of the biggest downs of the year. Doesn't sound massive until you realise that 30% was months of accumulated work and it survived coz i stopped overriding the framework with my own ego. The real lesson wasnt about that specific crash. It was about the gap between knowing what to do and actuallyy doing it under pressure. I learned the hard way that risk management on paper is easy but… risk management when your positions are bleeding in real time is different test.