1. The characteristics of futures. In the industry, the electronic trading of bulk commodities was once called quasi-futures. But it is actually a deep extension of spot trading, especially long-term contracts. The essence of futures trading is to buy and sell standardized contracts in fixed places, such as futures brokerage companies. Commodities are traded in medium and long-term contracts. There are only one or several commodities, but there are dozens of futures, which brings investment analysis.
2. Transaction method. Similar to futures, electronic trading of bulk commodities is a two-way transaction, T+0, which can be settled at any time on the same day. (By the way, the stock is T+ 1, and it can only be delivered the next day regardless of the market's ups and downs. In short, you can't stop winning or stopping immediately, and risk control is not easy. )
3. Trading places. The choice of electronic trading places for bulk commodities is free and flexible, and futures can only be bought and sold in brokerage companies. It can be said that if you have a place to surf the Internet, you can freely use your trading account and password to buy and sell.
Trade agent. Electronic trading of bulk commodities can be directly conducted by customers themselves or entrusted by professional e-commerce companies or business representatives in e-commerce companies. Otherwise, customers can only entrust professional brokers to conduct futures trading.
5. Trade orders. There are many orders used in commodity trading, which can be bought and sold at any time, including price limit, stop loss and withdrawal, while futures usually have only two orders. Moreover, trading orders are usually issued by customers in securities firms, and efficiency and timing are two contradictions.
6. Income analysis. Electronic trading of bulk commodities has a profit opportunity of 10% every day. Take the vegetable electronic trading market as an example. If you buy at 1 300 and sell at 1 3 1 ton, then each batch (1 batch = 1 ton) will be profitable.
7. Risk control. Without speculation, there is no market, and investment can be understood as speculation to some extent. It is impossible to say that any kind of speculation is risk-free. Unlike stocks, stocks cannot be short, that is, they cannot be sold at a high price and then closed at a low price. Commodities and futures can be short for profit. Sometimes, the market crash surprises us more than the skyrocketing. Coupled with the characteristics of opening and closing positions at any time, risks can be properly controlled.