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What are the characteristics of interest rate futures?
In the futures market, every investor can grasp the essence of futures investment, formulate reasonable and scientific investment strategies, and turn his investment wisdom into rolling wealth. However, why do some investors fail again and again? In fact, the essential reason is that they don't have enough futures knowledge to show their investment style in the complicated futures investment market. So today I will introduce the characteristics of interest rate futures to you, hoping to help investors. In the futures investment market, the interest rate futures price and the real interest rate are not on the same track, but they are actually contradictory, and the interest rate futures price and the real interest rate change inversely. Specifically, if the real interest rate shows an upward trend, then the interest rate futures price shows a downward trend, and the two are inversely proportional. Similarly, when the interest rate futures price shows an upward trend, then the real interest rate shows a downward trend. Because of the particularity of interest rate futures, its delivery method is essentially different from other futures varieties.

Generally speaking, interest rate futures mainly use cash delivery, which is very beneficial to the investment market to some extent. However, the market is flexible, so sometimes there will be cash delivery, of course, the frequency of this delivery is very small. So, what is cash delivery? In fact, cash delivery takes the existing interest rate of the bank as the conversion factor to determine the delivery price of futures contracts, so its completion needs to be based on the existing interest rate of the bank. In order to form a diversified investment concept, investors can learn more about bonds and remember not to put all your eggs in one basket. Interest rate futures have the following characteristics: the price of interest rate futures is opposite to the real interest rate, that is, the higher the interest rate, the lower the price of bond futures; The lower the interest rate, the higher the bond futures price. Interest rate futures are delivered in a special way. Interest rate futures are mainly delivered in cash, sometimes in cash. Cash delivery is to determine the delivery price of futures contracts with the existing interest rate of banks as the conversion factor.