Short selling stock index futures
That's right. The number of short positions and long positions in the futures market is always the same. Neither side will have extra hands! So you can see an "open position" in the futures market. This number will increase or decrease for a period of time. Today is 10000 lots, and tomorrow it may become zero lots. If you write an empty bill, someone will write more than one bill. No one will open more than one order, and neither will your empty order. Then the daily limit will drop. The so-called "everyone is bearish" always has a degree, right? You can't think that May 1000 is gone, can you? Therefore, on a certain index, "everyone is bearish", then it will fall. Until there is disagreement. For example, this morning, the main contract of stock index futures 1005, the two sides disagreed around 3 150. Everyone can open a position. Also opened an empty list! In the afternoon, something is wrong, just like you said, "everyone is bearish." At this time, you have to sell 3 150 points, and no one wants it. You have to go to 3 100 and 3082 to be free. The market price went on like this. You earn what's empty in front. Like me, I earned nearly 20 thousand on the day of liquidation. You earn long money. It's not like stocks. In the stock market, everyone may make money or lose money. Every penny earned in the futures market is paid for.