However even something as small as 2x leverage would be enough to wipe out your capital with a 50% drop, anything higher than that and you are risking your whole capital in a single trade and since sometimes stop loss orders do not get executed immediately then you could lose way more money than what you wanted in that trade, so while I am sorry for those people at the same time they deserve to lose their capital as they were irresponsible with it.
If a person uses 2x leverage, this does not mean that a 50% drop will eliminate him. This statement will be true if he entered the deal with all his money. But, as a rule, people who use such small leverage trade at 1/10 of their balance and above. These are all sorts of beginners who usually use their entire deposit and high leverage. And an experienced trader always strives to reduce risks, including leverage. I've rarely met newbies using less than 10x. So, when a margin trader who uses x2 leverage, the price approaches the liquidation zone, he can easily use such a technique as position averaging, because he has a lot of free money on his balance.
And he will do it, because the market after such a correction always goes in the opposite direction, which means that the chance to make money on such a seemingly unsuccessful deal increases.
Correct, what I said only applies if the trader goes all in with his capital and does not use a stop loss, obviously doing such a thing will be irresponsible but this is common for newbies that do not know what they are doing.
It is because of this that leverage trading is indicated only for expert traders, traders that have been in the market for a few years and have demonstrated to themselves their strategies work and now they are looking to maximize their profits while keeping their risk under control.