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What is the difference between spot silver and futures silver?
Futures is a contract that must be performed in the future, and the delivery time must be determined; Futures contracts have an expiration date and cannot be held indefinitely; Silver can be held indefinitely. 2. Domestic futures are regional markets; Silver is an international market. 3. From the trading time, futures trading is 4 hours, and silver is 24 hours. 4. Market makers are different from exchanges: futures trading is generally concentrated in futures exchanges; Spot silver is a market maker mechanism. 5. Futures is the price formed by centralized bidding of all traders in the exchange: the price of spot silver is quoted by the silver market maker. 6. In terms of whether the trading object is specific, the trading object of futures is not specific, and any investor who makes reverse trading instructions on the exchange may be its trading object; Spot silver is traded with a fixed silver market maker. seven

The main reason for the huge risk of futures trading is that futures trading has a delivery period limit. Because futures trading must be delivered on the maturity date, for speculators (speculators aiming at profit spread), if the futures contract price in their hands is close to the futures delivery date, even if they are in a loss state (even a huge loss), investors must close their positions. Spot silver is a spot transaction, and there is no delivery deadline. Investors can hold warehouse receipts for a long time.