Gold is also very stable but have you ever tried trading with gold in the forex market? It is even more volatile than what altcoins offer. In trading, volatility will always occur and whether we want to make more or less profit depends on how we set the leverage, the higher the leverage, the higher the risk but the higher the profit will be. When it comes to holding, it is clear that bitcoin is always the top choice because of its safety but when it comes to trading, there is not much difference between bitcoin or altcoins.
Leverage doesn’t increase volatility of the token but rather the risk. Volatility is due to the price change of tokens while leverage just multiply your margin so that even small changes on the price will create huge impact on your trade. Technically, leverage increases only your trade size and not the volatility of the token.
Forex trading is a leverage trading which you should compared on futures/leverage trading on crypto not on spot.
Yeah true, volatility is basically the price going up or down, and in a sense leverage means that smaller ups an downs would be a lot better or worse for you, that is not volatility changing, that is basically enhancing it. So, a small 1% down would suddenly feel like 50% down for you and that matters, or a 2% increase would double your money. As you can see the volatility stays the same, instead of 2% increase means 2% profit, it means 100% profit and that movement matters a lot more to you. The risk taking feature of it means that you are going to risk all of it and that is the logic.
So if you do not have 100k but have 1k, that means when you bet on 100x you risk that 1k as well, if the investment starts at 100k and drops to 99k, then all your 1k is gone and the position is closed, but at the same time 1% increase would mean that its 101k now, and you can sell, and you just doubled your money easily. Sure if you agree to 1% meaning your entire money is gone or double your money whichever direction it goes, the nits a good idea to try it. However, I do not like that type of risk and know that crypto is way volatile to take that kind of risk and the results will not be all that good for me personally.