How Does Leverage Affect the Capital Efficiency of a Trader?
Leverage significantly increases the capital efficiency of a trader. By requiring only a small fraction of the notional value as margin, leverage allows the trader to deploy less of their total capital to control a large position.
This frees up the remaining capital for other investments or to be used as a margin buffer, maximizing the return on deployed capital.
Glossar
Capital Efficiency
Leverage ⎊ Capital efficiency, within cryptocurrency and derivatives, fundamentally represents the maximization of risk-adjusted returns relative to capital at risk, a metric increasingly vital given regulatory constraints and market volatility.
Notional Value
Scale ⎊ Notional Value refers to the total market value of the underlying asset controlled by a derivatives position, calculated by multiplying the contract size by the current market price, irrespective of the actual margin capital posted.