I intend to invest 2000$, on a leverage 1:100. I hope it isn't going to hurt. Thanks

No, it won't hurt at all. The only thing you need to remember - if this is going to be your first live trading experience, do not trade 10,000 unit lots at the beginning, because they'll drain your account pretty quickly. Mini-lots of 1000 to 3000 units would be good to begin with. Once you are comfortable with your performance first of all, plus know firmly how math behind your trading account works, you may increase lot size slowly, controlling the risks and evaluating the size of losses you're comfortable to take per trade or per trading session.

Leverage is your friend, until you start overusing it. Higher leverage makes margin requirement for any trade lower, thus enabling you to operate larger funds while managing a small account or sustain larger losses without receiving a margin call in case market is temporarily moving against you.

For example,
To ensure you'll be able to cover any losses which might incur on your trading positions, with 100:1 leverage a broker can establish, for example, 1% margin requirement, which means that, if you wish to open a new position, you must have 1% of the size of that position available as margin. If you take 20:1 leverage, margin requirement may rise to 5%. In the case with 1% margin requirement are further away from margin call and can trade more positions than with 5% margin requirement.

When traders begin overusing leverage power, e.g. biting off a lot by placing large orders with small size accounts, they commit themselves to quick losses once market moves few pips against them and get no benefit from leverage whatsoever, but rather fall into the trap of big dreams of big quick profits with little money invested.

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