How much it costs to do futures depends on the variety. Some varieties can do it for thousands of dollars, and some varieties can do it for tens of thousands of dollars. First of all, we must do what we can.

Usually, you can see how much margin is needed for futures contracts to be long in the order interface of the software. If you want to calculate it yourself, remember the calculation formula of the deposit: the transaction price multiplied by the contract unit, multiplied by the deposit ratio, and finally multiplied by the number of hands.

Taking the coke contract 220 1 as an example, the current price is 2700 yuan/ton, the contract unit is 100 tons/lot, and the exchange margin ratio is 30%, so the exchange margin required for the first hand is 8 1000 yuan.

In the actual trading process, the margin charged by futures companies is often higher than the exchange margin, which is also due to the need of risk control, because futures are high-risk investments with leverage, and it is easy to break out if leverage is too high.