Futures trading is a kind of leveraged trading, and the margin is usually only about 10% of the spot price. Usually the daily spot price fluctuation 10% corresponds to the futures market price fluctuation 100%. This mechanism can provide opportunities for profiteering, but at the same time, due to the low margin, it may also lead to huge losses and increase investment risks in the case of misjudgment. So only the leverage mechanism can be used correctly and reasonably. ?
The lower the futures margin, the greater your leverage. You leveraged a lot of assets with a small amount of money. Once the market changes in an unfavorable direction for you and your margin is insufficient, there will be forced liquidation. For example, you only paid a deposit of 1 000 yuan for an original asset of 1 000 yuan. As long as the price changes slightly, your 1, 000 yuan will be gone. If you pay a deposit of 50,000 yuan, you can resist more price fluctuations. The current margin of futures is about 10%. Generally, there will be a stop loss after entering the market, and the futures risk can be controlled. ?
Investors believe that the risk of futures is also high because of the leverage of futures margin trading, but the degree of leverage can be freely chosen. Stock trading, stocks worth 6.5438+0 million yuan must be bought with 6.5438+0 million yuan; In futures trading, even if the margin is as high as 20%, the futures contract with the trading value of 1 000 yuan only needs 2000 yuan, and the contract value is five times of the margin. To sum up, the lower the futures margin, the greater the futures risk.