Your friend is in sales. He always wants multiple customers. There is nothing wrong with introducing you to open a stock account. What can a stock account do besides stock trading? Fund? Bonds? Gold? Futures? Reverse repurchase of government bonds? Financial products of securities companies? Can these securities be traded after opening an account?

At present, after opening a securities account, individuals can invest in A shares listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges. There are more than 2,000 companies in the two cities, and B shares are stocks traded in foreign currencies. Domestic individuals can also buy and sell if they are open.

After opening a securities account, investors can directly purchase/redeem open-end funds or buy and sell government bonds and corporate bonds through the online trading system of securities companies, which is very convenient and fast.

At the same time, after opening a securities account, investors can directly allocate the collective wealth management products of investment securities companies through the securities account.

As for futures trading, at present, investors can open commodity futures accounts or stock index futures accounts through securities companies with IB business qualifications, but this is independent of securities accounts and the online trading system used is also different.

In terms of gold, except for gold enterprise stocks, paper gold and physical gold are not within the scope of securities account opening, and foreign exchange cannot be operated through the securities company system.

So you can make a lot of investments with a securities account, and you don't have to buy stocks. Of course, if you don't need to invest now, you don't have to, and there will be no cost.