SP500 Futures Trading Strat

Is anyone out there just levering up through the use of index futures like the SP500 e-mini and going long only with a trailing stop loss to protect from black swan type events? If you had something like 100k in your personal account it seems that as long as you don't get super levered up during a really bad downturn then you would be fine over the long run. The "don't get super levered" part is obviously a huge caveat, but if you managed your risk properly it seems like a way relatively easy way to juice your returns over just buying the index.

Anybody know someone that has done this? Pitfalls? What am I missing? 

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