2. Closing a position refers to a transaction conducted by one party to a futures transaction in order to offset a futures contract previously bought or sold. Closing a position is a general term for selling stocks bought by bulls or buying back stocks sold by bears in stock trading.
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Classification of liquidation
Closing positions can be divided into hedging closing positions and forced closing positions.
1. Hedging liquidation refers to the liquidation of futures contracts previously sold or bought by futures investment enterprises by buying on the same futures exchange and selling futures contracts in the same delivery month.
2. Forced liquidation refers to the forced liquidation of the position of the holder by a third party other than the holder (futures exchange or futures brokerage company, such as Fuhui Global Jinhui Trading Platform), also known as liquidation or liquidation.
There are many reasons for compulsory liquidation in futures trading, such as customers' failure to add trading margin in time, violation of trading position restrictions and other irregularities, temporary changes in policies or trading rules, etc. In the standardized futures market, it is most common that customers are forced to close their positions because of insufficient trading margin.
Specifically, it refers to the behavior that a futures company forcibly closes some or all of its customers' positions in order to avoid losses. When the trading margin required by the customer's position contract is insufficient, the futures company fails to add the corresponding margin in time according to the futures company's notice or actively reduce the position, and the market situation is still developing in an unfavorable direction, the obtained funds are used to fill the margin gap.
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