That's what's so great about this game, two totally different strategies and ideas but both have the potential to make money so neither can be 'wrong'. Opposite to what you do, 90% of the time I trade against the trend off a 15m chart. Occasionally I'll hit a home run but most of the time I'll just take a few pips. It's probably harder work as there's a lot of screen time involved but in today's volatile economic and geopolitical climate there's a lot to be said for being flat at the end of a trading day. This raises another question about forex being a zero-sum game, does someone really have to lose in order for someone else to gain, I don't think so, it's just a never-ending stream of buying and selling for all different kinds of reasons, in theory the payoff is infinate.
Agree, actual leverage used doesn't really mean very much and is more of an insignificant by-product calculation.