I understand that sometimes people do not really understand what they are talking about but if they cannot see any difference between using more capital and no leverage on one hand and on the other using a very small amount of capital and a lot of leverage, then they could simple create two accounts in different exchanges, test their theory that there is no difference and then see how things work out.
What the 90% of “traders” don’t truly understand is that the top 10% of traders, who are real professionals, WANT them to continue trading. The “traders” are their victims.
Do you want to be a victim? Or do you want to simply Buy Bitcoin, and HODL?
Those professionals know what they are doing, they know that they have more money than others as well, and they know what they have to do to get the most out of the liquidity available as well.
If the price looks low at that moment and yet there are still a bit of price change allowing them to make profit, they could drop it even further to make that income, if there is a big short futures saved up, and just 1k+ going up makes them 100x more money than they will make sure to get that as well. Whatever whales do, they know what they are doing and checking the market and how people are positioned and smaller investors do not have that advantage because they lack the funds for it.