(1) The balance of available funds in the margin account for five consecutive trading days before the application for opening an account is not less than RMB 500,000;
(2) Having the basic knowledge of stock index futures and passing relevant tests.
(3) There have been more than 20 simulated stock index transactions or more than 10 commodity transactions in the accumulated futures in the last three years.
After understanding the conditions of stock index futures account, let's take a look at the characteristics of stock index futures.
(1) intertemporal. Stock index futures is a contract. By predicting the changing trend of the stock index, the two sides agreed to trade at some time in the future under certain conditions. Therefore, the trading of stock index futures is based on an expectation of the future, and the accuracy of the expectation will directly determine the profit and loss of investors.
(2) lever. In stock index futures trading, you don't need to pay all the contract value, you only need to pay a certain percentage of margin to sign a contract with greater value.
(3) linkage. The price of stock index futures index is closely related to the change of stock index. Stock index has a great influence on the change of stock index futures price. At the same time, stock index futures is the expectation of future prices, so it also reflects the stock index to some extent.
(4) High risk and risk diversity. Because of the leverage of stock index futures, it is more risky than the stock market. In addition, there are other credit risks and settlement risks in futures stock indexes.
The conditions of the futures account stock index are relatively strict, and some characteristics of the transaction are as shown above. I hope it helps you! In addition, regarding futures, we have talked about the relevant contents of short positions in futures before, so we can do some related understanding. Pay attention to us and bring you more stock-related knowledge and investment skills you want to know.