Compared with the purchase of index funds, the threshold for investors to buy stock index futures is higher, requiring investors to have a balance of available funds in the margin account of not less than RMB 500,000 for five consecutive trading days; Accumulated 10 trading days, more than 20 simulated trading records of stock index futures, or more than 10 trading records of commodity futures in the last three years. Apply for an account.
Index funds are fund products with specific indexes (such as Shanghai and Shenzhen 300 Index, Standard & Poor's 500 Index, Nasdaq 100 Index, Nikkei 225 Index, etc.) as the target. ) as the underlying index, and take the constituent stocks of the index as the investment object, build a portfolio by buying all or part of the constituent stocks of the index, and track the performance of the underlying index. There are more and more index funds in the market, and it is more and more difficult to choose index funds. Investors should pay more attention to two points when choosing index funds: on the one hand, finding such an index is as difficult as choosing stocks; On the other hand, choose index funds with smaller investment tracking errors. The smaller the tracking error of funds, the stronger the management ability of fund managers, and the more investors can achieve the goal of obtaining index returns. The investment operation of index funds is the process of tracking the index by buying the constituent stocks (or other securities) of the index, which mainly includes opening positions, reinvesting and tracking adjustment.