With foreign exchange, you can set the limit of your own losses
, to the point up until which you are willing to bear them. So, if the currency you are investing in falls to that point, you automatically withdraw. This means that with leverage you have a chance of taking part in big deals with small capital. Imagine that in the above example of pounds and dollars, the deal was for $159,000. You can get leverage up to 32:1, so the profit is humongous. You can participate in these deals if you can come up with just 1/32 of this amount.