Different futures varieties need different funds. For some common varieties of soybeans, corn, soybean meal, sugar, cotton, methanol, fuel oil and asphalt, investors only need a few thousand to trade; For Shanghai copper, gold, silver and coke, these varieties may need tens of thousands of funds, while for some crude oil futures and stock index futures, the threshold requirements are higher, and investors need 500,000 yuan to apply for an account separately.

No matter what kind of futures you buy, investors should combine their own funds, arrange positions reasonably, set stop loss positions, and try to avoid the risk of short positions.

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Although the word futures is rare in life, futures do exist. The so-called futures is a commodity relative to the spot; Spot refers to commodities that can be bought and sold now, while futures refers to commodities that are expected to be traded in a certain period in the future.

The buying and selling of futures commodities mainly relies on the delivery of margin to obtain a commodity buying and selling contract that can be traded at some time in the future. Before the expiration date of the contract, investors can choose whether to buy or sell. If the commodity price at that time is higher than the price at the time of signing the contract, the investor can get the commodity after paying off the balance according to the price signed in the contract.

If the price of this commodity is lower than the price at the time of signing, after weighing the interests, investors can also choose to give up the deposit, cancel the contract and buy the spot at a lower price. So ... futures trading is like buying and selling goods in advance. When paying the deposit, the buyer only obtained the right to purchase the goods in advance in the future, and could not obtain the ownership of the goods before the contract expired and paid the balance.

There are two kinds of investors in the futures commodity market: one is speculative. This kind of investors only want to earn short-term commodity price difference, mostly "fast forward and fast out", that is, to adopt the operation mode of fast in and out. In fact, they don't really need this commodity, but to earn short-term benefits. After they buy futures contracts, they will look for high-priced opportunities to sell them before the trading day and earn the difference.

The second type of investors are the original targets of the futures market, that is, investors who really need these commodities. He may buy a batch of raw materials or other necessary commodities at some time in the future because of the need of producing goods. In order to prevent the price of this raw material or commodity from rising during this period, he can buy a contract for commodity trading in advance according to the current commodity price. When the agreed trading day approaches, he can compare the spot price at that time with the price at the time of signing, and then decide to perform the contract or give up the deposit to buy the spot.