2. Successful speculation will put high demands on the speculators themselves. We should not adopt the method of lazy buying and holding to deal with the market, but should be more sensitive to the changes of market cycle and rhythm, grasp it better, and control our discipline more strictly.
1. Futures, the English name is futures, which is completely different from the spot. Spot is actually a tradable commodity. Futures are mainly not commodities, but standardized tradable contracts based on some popular products such as cotton, soybeans and oil and financial assets such as stocks and bonds. Therefore, the subject matter can be commodities (such as gold, crude oil and agricultural products) or financial instruments. The delivery date of futures can be one week later, one month later, three months later or even one year later. A contract or agreement to buy or sell futures is called a futures contract. The place where futures are bought and sold is called the futures market. Investors can invest or speculate in futures.
2. The initial margin is the money that traders need to pay when they open positions. According to the transaction amount and the margin ratio, that is, initial margin = transaction amount * adjusted margin ratio. At present, the minimum margin ratio in China is 5% of the transaction amount, which is generally between 3% and 8% internationally. For example, the soybean margin ratio of Dalian Commodity Exchange is 5%. When a customer buys five soybean futures contracts (each 10 ton) at a price of 2,700 yuan/ton, he needs to pay an initial deposit of 6 750 yuan to the exchange (that is, 2,700× 5×10× 5%).
3. In the process of holding positions, traders will have floating profits and losses (the difference between the settlement price and the transaction price) due to the constant changes of market conditions, so the funds actually available in the margin account for making up losses and providing guarantees will increase or decrease at any time. Floating profit will increase the balance of margin account, while floating loss will decrease the balance of margin account. The minimum balance that must be kept in the margin account is called maintenance margin. Maintenance margin: the settlement price is adjusted to the position, and the margin ratio is adjusted to xk(k is a constant, which is called the maintenance margin ratio, which is usually 0.75 in China).
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