In fact, this is a major advantage of futures over stocks. Futures can not only buy up, but also short, that is, they can make money when the economy is depressed and prices fall. Short selling is to sell and open a position first, and then buy and close the position when the price is low, and also earn the difference. Why do you say that you can still make money when the price falls? Stocks and futures are put online, not real commodities. Futures are bought and sold in the form of standardized contracts, that is, a forward contract is signed, and it is only a list. For example, A will sell the soybean contract to B in May next year, and the transaction price is 5000 tons. Because A predicted that the price would fall next year, it sold it first. In the second year, soybeans really fell, and the price in May was 4,000 yuan a ton. In this way, smart A bought 4000 yuan a ton of soybeans from the market and gave them to B. Before buying them, B paid B 5000 yuan a ton. Primary soybean 10 ton, a net profit 1 10,000 yuan.
In fact, it is easy to understand from the perspective of doing business. A successful businessman will definitely buy when the market is good and wait for the price to continue to rise. When the market is bad, commodity prices will fall, and they must be in a hurry to ship. In futures, they just sell and open positions. Moreover, if the futures are out of stock, you can sell them first, because you are selling orders, not paying for the goods, or buying them at a low price and selling them at a high price to earn the difference, or selling them at a high price and buying them at a low price to earn the difference.