Stock index futures are futures with stock index as the target. All futures have the risk of forced liquidation, which is what we often say. When will stock index futures be forced to close their positions?

When will stock index futures be forced to close their positions?

There are two main situations of forced liquidation of stock index futures:

1 When the market is unfavorable and the fluctuation touches the short position ratio. Theoretically, the ratio of short positions to margin is the same, because the investor's account margin can be zero at this time, and the minimum trading margin of stock index futures is 8%, but in fact, it depends on where the ratio of short positions of futures companies is set.

When the investor holds the contract until the closing of the delivery date, the exchange will pay the profit and loss of both positions and settle all open contracts based on the delivery settlement price. The delivery date of stock index futures is the third Friday of the contract expiration month, and the trading time is 9: 30am-11:30am and13: 00pm-15: 00pm from Monday to Friday.

The above is Bian Xiao's sharing, and I hope it will help everyone.