I am sorry that I used the word trick in my explanation, because I think it gave the wrong message.
What I was trying to explain is that considering the basis of macro economics, your research before opening a live position in financial markets may take a couple of months to work if not at all, but to be fundamentally correct, you need to give yourself a lot of room like a couple of months, your chances of predicting what is going to happen in a couple of months to an economy or a company are actually quite good.
Your chances of predicting whats gonna happen the next day is almost nothing, do you see where I am getting at, you have more chances of being correct if you give more time to your trades to work.
Taking that approach, having a lot of leverage makes this operation impossible, because the volatililty of your account is too high to keep a position for a couple of months, and I am sure you would agree on that.
It was only after taking classes about finance that I realised that Hedge fund use very little leverage after all and you don't need to use it as well, that is what I blame brokers for, for not educating their clients about leveraging mechanics properly.
I have written a blog post about it at this url, It explains a bit more about my point of view on the mattter :
http://bullinstu.com/2016/02/07/how-to-trade-like-a-real-trader/