Recently, I've been trading gold futures and crude oil using a few different TradFi exchanges. The most obvious issue is that leverage is fixed. There were several times when I was in a hurry to open positions and my directional judgment was actually correct, but I couldn't adjust the leverage. In my rush, I carelessly increased the percentage and ended up liquidating my position. Two positions got liquidated because of this. Since it wasn't a normal loss but rather a loss from these kinds of mistakes, some platforms that added perpetual futures had leverage adjustment features, but the trading depth wasn't good. These past couple of days I've been using TradFi, where I can now adjust leverage myself instead of having it fixed. Here's how I'm using it now:

When the market outlook is fairly certain → Leverage increases slightly, when volatility starts getting chaotic → I directly reduce the leverage to control risk. The entire trading experience feels completely different. For assets like gold, crude oil, and forex, they all support leverage adjustment, giving much more operational flexibility compared to before. For people who frequently trade TradFi, this kind of change is quite significant.