Spot reflects the current supply and demand price, while futures reflect the future price. Futures contracts include forward contracts and recent contracts. Generally speaking, the futures price of recent contracts is synchronized with the spot price. The spot corresponding to forward futures may rise or fall.
Futures:
Futures is a tradable standardized contract with commodities or financial assets as the target.
Futures contracts are standardized contracts formulated by futures exchanges, which plan to deliver a certain number of subject matter at a specific time and place in the future. Futures contracts can be divided into commodity futures contracts, financial futures contracts and other futures contracts according to different targets.
The characteristics of futures mainly include
Contract standardization: before listing, set uniform trading rules for each futures product, including trading unit, quotation unit, minimum price change, price limit and minimum margin. Each variety corresponds to the contract of different months, delivery date and so on. These are open and fair to every trader who enters the market.
Margin trading: also known as leveraged trading, is the first-hand price of the actual transaction after the trader enters the market. This price is a certain proportion of the actual value of a specific product, generally between 5%- 15%. This system also determines that futures itself is leveraged!
Two-way trading: the biggest difference between futures and other investments is that futures can be done in two directions, that is, in the face of future market changes, it will only rise and not fall. According to the forecast of the future market, you can buy up or down, which is the biggest difference of futures.
The difference between futures and stocks:
1, the margin trading method of futures will amplify the function of your stock market funds at least ten times, and you have to trade 1 10,000 yuan to buy a stock; You only need to pay 65,438+00%, that is, 1000 yuan, and you can buy futures of 1 10,000 yuan. So your 1 10,000 fund can be used as110,000 investment.
2. Futures can be short. On the same K-line chart, stocks can only rise to make money. Fading can only wait. Futures can be short when they fall. First sell it at a high price of 10 yuan, and then buy it back at a low price in 5 yuan to earn the same 5 yuan price difference.
3. Futures are T+0, which can be sold immediately after buying, and many round trips can be made in one day. This increases the trading opportunities, and at the same time, you can stop immediately if you are wrong.