Yeah I'm not a fan of leverage, even 5x seems mad to me. I mostly stopped because back in the UK pretty much every exchange got insanely regulated and they removed futures markets entirely for UK clients. I can't even use BitFinex anymore as they straight up just said they won't offer anything to the UK at all.
I was buying up stocks around covid and after but then the decline came with those and it was smarter to just park the cash into the various interest giving options. Coinbase had USDC at 5%, even my bank had 4.2% on USD. Though now I'm constantly getting emails on how rates are declining and the cash seems almost wasted siting in those.