How Derivative Structures Changed Retail Risk Understanding in 2025, According to Leverage.Trading

The Problem Was Not the Trade — But the Structure Around It By the middle of 2025, a pattern had become difficult to ignore in retail derivatives trading. Positions that looked reasonable on entry often behaved in ways traders did not anticipate, even when underlying markets moved only modestly. The issue was not a single trade going wrong, but how exposure changed once it passed through derivative structures. Why Derivatives Do Not Reflect the Underlying Asset Directly Derivatives do not mirror the underlying asset directly. Each instrument introduces translation layers that sit between price movement and outcome. Leverage ratios,