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# Leverage

The leverage effect is a possibility offered by all futures platforms, it allows you to borrow and invest more than your initial capital.

In concrete terms, if you allocate $10,000 to a futures bot and choose leverage 2, it will open a position of $20,000.

Leverage is an interesting tool since it allows you to multiply your gains, but you must use it sparingly because it will also multiply your losses.

### How to choose the right leverage?

A preliminary work is done by our team and we voluntarily limit the leverage for the riskiest strategies. For some bots, you can choose up to 5 leverage but this does not mean that you have to use it.

A leverage of 2 is usually more than enough, you can use a higher leverage but you must be aware of the associated risks.