Futures trading and going into high leverage is like suicidal if you're not an experienced one. You will only end up screwing all your funds and see them vanish like thin air.
The inexperienced traders are the ones that are always making use of high leverage whenever they are trading because they don’t know the risk involved in it. Experienced trader make use of low leverage when trading, because after doing analysis and thinking everything is fine, sometimes analysis is always wrong, and the only way to secure your funds is when your risk is not too high. At least, even if you lose some money, it’s not going to be everything you will lose compare to when you make use of high leverage.
Newbies are mostly the ones looking for quick money, so they do end up always using high leverage because of quick money, and some of them don’t even care to accumulate more knowledge before jumping into future trading, so they don’t really know how things work.